The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has awarded COMSA a 23 million euro contract for the renovation of the tracks, overhead line and systems at the Green Light Rail Center, the maintenance centre for the light train network in San Francisco (United States). The aim of the project is to replace and refurbish...
The Board of Directors at the Port of Barcelona has awarded COMSA the contract for the enlargement works on the South Pier railway terminal, where the Barcelona Containers Terminal (TCB) is located. The project has a budget of 4.2 million euros and an execution time frame of nine and a half months. The aim...
SNCF Geodis, the logistics and goods transport branch of SNCF, and the Spanish service provider COMSA EMTE signed an agreement last week under which SNCF Geodis is to take a stake in COMSA Rail Transport (CRT). SNCF Geodis is to take a 25% share in the capital of COMSA Rail Transport. As such, a...
From 27th to 29th January, COMSA EMTE participated in Exporail, the main rail industry fair in Mexico. The event gave visitors a first-hand insight into the range of services offered by COMSA, EMTE, EMTE Sistemas and GMF, the companies that represented the Group during the twelfth edition of the fair, which was organised by...
On 23rd October, COMSA EMTE participated in a conference organized by the Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering in Madrid to analyse the potential of Spanish firms in the railway engineering field. As a leading actor in the rail transport technology industry, the company was represented by the Director of Technical Services and Innovation, Valentí...
COMSA has finished the construction of the new operations building at Sant Vicenç de Calders railway station (Tarragona), one of the busiest in Catalonia. This single-storey infrastructure, which covers a surface area of nearly 1,000 m2, has been built at a cost of over one million Euros. The building is divided into two areas,...
On 12 September, the Argentine Interior and Transport Minister, Florencio Randazzo, visited the track renovation works on the Retiro-José L. Suárez branch line, which COMSA is carrying out in Buenos Aires with the aim of improving train traffic on the Mitre Line. The works contract, awarded by the operation management unit for the Mitre...
COMSA EMTE has presented in Madrid its ‘X Premios de Ferrocarriles’, (Railway Awards) an initiative from the infrastructure Group aimed at supporting scientific research and technology dissemination in the railway sector. In the event, held at the headquarters of the Spanish Railways Foundation, two doctoral theses from Switzerland and Portugal respectively and two dissertations...
In Barcelona between 5th and June 7th, COMSA Rail Transport participed in the 14th edition of the International Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition (SIL). This is the leading rail transport trade fair in Spain and Southern Europe. This year, in its most international edition, over 500 companies were involved, 45% of them from abroad. On...
COMSA has actively participated in the first International Congressof Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance (Railways of 2012). Carlos Saborido, from the group’s Technology and Innovation area, in his presentation theorized on the innovation project jointly developed by COMSA and the UPC which is financied by the Ministry of Development The purpose of the...
