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LS Electric Co Ltd is involved in the business of smart power transmission, smart power distribution, and smart industrial automation. The company's main activities include the manufacturing and distribution of power supply technology, automation solutions, and railway solutions. The firm's products include smart-grid, switchgear, electronic meter, integrated protection and monitoring equipment, process automation, low voltage VFD, and others. Its operating segments include the Automation division, the Information Technology (IT) division, the Metal division, and the Power division.

CRRC Corp Ltd is engaged in research and development, design, manufacturing, refurbishment, sales, leasing and technical services of railway locomotives, MUs, urban rail transit vehicles, engineering machinery, various electromechanical equipment, electronic equipment and components, as well as electronic devices and environmental protection equipment; information consultation; industry investment and management; asset management; import and export business. Its business operations are spread across Mainland China which derives the highest revenue, and a few other countries.

China Railway Group Ltd is a construction conglomerate company. The company's operating segment includes Infrastructure construction; Survey, design and consulting services; Engineering equipment and component manufacturing; Property development, and Other businesses. It generates maximum revenue from the Infrastructure construction segment. The Infrastructure construction segment includes the construction of railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, metropolitan railways (including subways and light railways), buildings, irrigation works, hydroelectricity projects, ports, docks, airports, and other municipal works.

China Railway Construction Corp Ltd operates as an infrastructure construction firm. It largely derives contracting revenue. It builds railways, highways and municipal works, such as subways and light rail systems. The company also engages in survey and design, manufacturing, logistics, and property development. It operates the following business segments: Construction, Planning & Design, manufacturing and Real Estate; and Other Business Operations. The firm's revenue gets dominated by the Construction segment that engages in the construction of infrastructure such as railways, highways, metropolitan railways, and real estate projects.

Getlink SE manages and operates a railroad tunnel connecting continental Europe and the United Kingdom. It is organized into the following segments: Eurotunnel, Europorte, and ElecLink. The Eurotunnel segment, which derives maximum revenue, operates and markets its shuttle services in the tunnel and also provides access, on payment of a toll, for the circulation of the railway companies’ high-speed passenger trains (Eurostar) and rail freight services through its railway network. The Europorte segment covers the entire rail freight transport logistics chain in France as well as cross-border flows to Belgium and Germany. The ElecLink segment is engaged in the operation of its electricity interconnector which runs through the Channel Tunnel linking the French and British electricity grids.

Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co Ltd is in the R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales of rail transit equipment products and the provision of related services, and has an industrial structure of components, systems, and complete machines. Its products mainly include rail transit electrical equipment, railway engineering machinery, communication signal systems, and others. Meanwhile, the Company actively expands to industries other than rail transit, and conducts business in the fields of power semiconductor devices, industrial converter products, electric drive systems for new energy vehicles, sensor devices, and marine equipment, The Company operates in the domestic market and overseas markets.

Alstom develops and markets equipment, systems, and services for the railway transport sector, including rolling stock, maintenance and modernization services, signaling, and infrastructure, which are offered separately, bundled, or as fully integrated solutions. The company is one of the key international players in the industry with a strong position in European markets.

China Railway Signal & Communication Corp Ltd provides products and services on the entire industrial chain of rail transit control systems. The company's operating segments are the rail transportation control system segment which provides specialized three-in-one services of design and integration, equipment manufacturing, and system implementation services for rail transportation control systems; General engineering contracting segment engages in the provision of services relating to municipal and other construction projects; and other segments mainly engage in trading. The firm generates a majority of its revenue from the rail transportation control system segment.

Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd is an Indian-based company, engaged in the business of implementing various types of Rail infrastructure projects. It executes projects such as new lines, doubling, gauge conversion, railway electrification, metro projects, workshops, bridges, construction of cable-stayed bridges, institution buildings, and others. The company has only one reportable segment namely, Development of Railway Infrastructure.

Glarun Technology Co Ltd is involved in fields associated with electronic information technology from high starting points and focuses on the growth and development in aspects of traffic electronics, supply chain integration service, microwave and communication, software and information service, energy electronics and other relevant industries. Its business fields include Rail transit; Air traffic; Intelligent transportation and Maritime traffic.

Indian Railway Catering And Tourism Corp Ltd is engaged in catering and hospitality services at stations, on trains, and other locations, and to promote domestic and international tourism through the development of budget hotels, special tour packages, information, and commercial publicity and world-wide reservation systems. The company's segments are Catering, Rail Neer, Internet Ticketing, and Tourism & Train Operation. A vast majority of its revenues are derived from the Catering business.

Newag SA is a Poland-based company engaged in heavy machinery sector. The Company operations are divided into four segments: the Electric and Diesel Multiple Units segment produces electric MUs for electrified railway lines of passenger transportation.

GRK Infra PLC designs, repairs, maintains, and builds roads, highways, tracks, and bridges to make everyday life run smoothly, get people to meet each other, and make the future more sustainable. It also includes environmental services business.

FTAI Infrastructure Inc is engaged in five segments; Railroad segment includes five freight railroads and one switching company that provide rail service to certain manufacturing and production facilities, the Jefferson Terminal segment consists of a multi-modal crude oil and refined products terminal and other related assets. Repauno segment consists of a 1,630-acre deep-water port located along the Delaware River with an underground storage cavern, a new multipurpose dock, a rail-to-ship transloading system, and multiple industrial development opportunities. Power and Gas segment is comprised of an equity method investment in Long Ridge, and Sustainability and Energy Transition segment is comprised of Aleon/Gladieux, Clean Planet, and CarbonFree.

Quadrant Future Tek Ltd is a research-focused company developing next-generation Train Control and Signaling Systems as part of the KAVACH project for Indian Railways. The company's specialty cables are used in railway rolling stock and the Naval (Defence) industry. The Company is engaged in two business segments: the manufacture and distribution of Specialised Cables and the Manufacturing of Train Collision avoidance systems. Key revenue is generated from the Cable Division.

TPI Triunfo Participacoes e Investimentos SA provides construction and operations of infrastructure facilities. The company's operating segments include Toll Roads Segment, Energy Segment, Logistic Segment and Other. Company generates majority of the revenue from Toll roads segment.

Zue SA is a contractor involved in the designing and delivery of comprehensive tram line and railway construction and modernization systems. It also provides infrastructure (including earthworks and construction of subgrade, drainage systems and engineering and cubature facilities.

Ferrocarril del Pacifico SA is a Chile-based rail freight transportation solutions company that develops cargo transport solutions for mining, forestry, and industrial companies. In addition, it also offers freight transportation solutions through trucks and offers additional services, including transfer station management, railway outsourcing, and complimentary services for metallic copper. The company operates through two segments; the Train segment which generates maximum revenue, and the Truck segment. Geographically, it derives all of its revenue from services provided in Chile.