United Group nails $180m in rail deals

<p>Infrastructure and industrial services company United Group had secured new projects in the rail and resources sectors with the combined value of more than $180m, the company said this week. </p> <p>The projects include: </p> <p>&#8226 The supply of 15 3,200 kW GE Cv43-ACi locomotives, with options for additional quantities, for Pacific National (PN). The locomotives will offer increased traction effort and haulage capacity and are ideally suited to PN’s coal haulage task in the Hunter Valley and general freight carriage requirements on the Australian standard gauge network. The locomotives will be configured and built at United Group Rail’s Broadmeadow facility in New South Wales</p> <p>&#8226 The supply of a new locomotive platform structure, bogie design and 220 pre-fabricated broad gauge bogie frames for GE locomotives that will operate in Kazakhstan for GE &#8211 Transportation </p> <p>&#8226 The supply of 120 heavy duty gondola-type Lynx design iron ore wagons for BHP Billiton’s Rapid Growth Project 4. These wagons, which will be produced in United Group Rail’s Bassendean facility in Perth, follow on from the 2,500 already supplied and </p> <p> &#8226 The extension to December 31, 2009, of mechanical maintenance operations for Alcan’s Gove refinery, Northern Territory. United Group Resources has been servicing this contract since 2000. </p> <p>&#8220United Group continues to benefit from the buoyant resources sector with demand for our services continuing to grow. We are pleased to have extended our maintenance operations with Alcan at Gove,&#8221 managing director Richard Leupen said. </p> <p>&#8220This is our seventh year on site which illustrates the strength of our partnership. </p> <p>&#8220Our rail business remains a priority for the group. United Group’s engineering and design innovation, combined with the technology of our strategic partners, has been a clear winner with Australian customers over the past decade. </p> <p>&#8220United Group continues to explore ways to strengthen its rail operations in the Asia-Pacific region in passenger, freight and locomotive markets.&#8221 </p> <br />