Sentence examples for global railway from inspiring English sources

Japan has also been goaded into a new export boldness by the rise of China, a rival whose surge in construction of high-speed rail networks could give Beijing an economies-of-scale edge in the global railway market.

Firstly, it has been generated based on the GENSYSMBS software package which was validated during the Manchester Benchmark tests [27] and is now widely endorsed by the global railway industry.

Such a record was well noted, and provided valuable experience in operational safety to the global railway industry.

Schools in Europe have courses in aerospace (Toulouse); entrepreneurial leadership and railway global (Emlyon in France); luxury brands management in Milan (Bocconi Business School in partnership with Bulgari) and international hospitality management at IIMD  in Sweden.

Back in the 1870's, by which time the British had largely completed their global network of railways and steamships, it still took a minimum of 80 days to go around the world, as Jules Verne celebrated in the story of Phileas Fogg.

The maximum gradient is a major technical standard with global significance for railways.

Thereafter, a state-level "Coordination Group for the 'Going Global' of China's Railway" led by the NDRC was established.

China has around 6% of the world's total railway network, yet carries 24% of global freight volumes.

The world market for railway infrastructure and equipment has been growing at 3.2% a year through the global downturn, and is set to grow at around 2.7% a year until 2017.

During the past decade DB has bought two freight companies, Schenker and Bax Global, as well as various railway companies in Britain.

As well as being the world's largest producer of iron ore, with more than 18% of the global market, CVRD owns a railway system that carries almost two-thirds of Brazil's rail freight.