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Italcertifer (group FS) disembarks in Australia
To the Italian company the certification of safety of the railway net of the mining multinational Rio Tinto is assigned
November 4, 2013
Alla Italcertifer, Italian societies of the group FS, is assigned the certification of safety (safety) of the Australian railway net of property of the mining multinational Rio Tinto. The activities, total value of beyond a million euro, will last about two years and will regard assessment of the system of control, the command and signaling realized from Ansaldo-STS, that it will manage about 1.300 of the 1,500 kilometers of the entire private railway net. Italcertifer has explained of being chosen for the competences and the groundbreaking acquaintance of all the railway process, in particular of the system of signaling Ansaldo-STS, Italian company leader in the field.
The possessed Australian railway net from Rio Tinto is used in order to transport to the ports of Dampier and Cape Lambert the material dug in the 15 mines of the present society in the Region of Pilbara, situated in the North the West of Australia. The mineral, destined mostly to the markets of China and Japan, travels on freight trains that can be composed until 236 wagons (about 25.000 tons for every transport), pulled ahead from three diesel engines.
The system of control, command and signaling will afford to optimize the times of the railway traffic and to avoid delays in the delivery of the cargo to the ships. With driverless (the innovative system that the machinist does not preview on the Rio Tinto locomotives) the variations in the times of distance will be eliminated, for the not uniform behavior of who guide, and also year to 360 million will be increased to the transport ability, passing from the current 290 million tons/.
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Alla Italcertifer, Italian societies of the group FS, is assigned the certification of safety (safety) of the Australian railway net of property of the mining multinational Rio Tinto. The activities, total value of beyond a million euro, will last about two years and will regard assessment of the system of control, the command and signaling realized from Ansaldo-STS, that it will manage about 1.300 of the 1,500 kilometers of the entire private railway net. Italcertifer has explained of being chosen for the competences and the groundbreaking acquaintance of all the railway process, in particular of the system of signaling Ansaldo-STS, Italian company leader in the field.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
