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The Administración de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias Sociedad del Estado (abbreviated ADIFSE;
Before Vossloh expands in Brazil and Argentina
- Railway Gazette, 23 January 2013.
trading name
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: Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura) is an Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
state-owned company
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created in 2008 to manage rail construction and maintenance in Argentina. It is a subsidiary of the Ferrocarriles Argentinos
Ferrocarriles Argentinos (abbreviated as FA; ) was a state-owned company that managed the entire Argentine railway system for nearly 45 years. It was formed in 1948 when all the private railway companies were nationalised during Juan Perón's fir ...
holding company.
History
Before railway privatisation in Argentina
Railway privatisation in Argentina was a process which began in 1993 under the presidency of Carlos Menem, following a series of neoliberal economic reforms. This primarily consisted of breaking up the state-owned railway company Ferrocarriles Ar ...
, railway infrastructure was managed by the original Ferrocarriles Argentinos
Ferrocarriles Argentinos (abbreviated as FA; ) was a state-owned company that managed the entire Argentine railway system for nearly 45 years. It was formed in 1948 when all the private railway companies were nationalised during Juan Perón's fir ...
. After FA was formally declared in liquidation, railway infrastructure administration was left in the hands of a new organism called ''Ente Nacional de Administración de Bienes Ferroviarios'' (ENABIEF, in English: National Entity for the Administration of Railway Assets), created in 1996.
In 2000 ENABIEF was fused with the ''Dirección Nacional de Bienes del Estado'', as part of the National Organism for the Administration of Assets (ONABE), which was formed to administrate all state assets, including the railways.
Throughout the period of private management of the railways, it was the contractual obligation of the operators (assigned through competitive bidding) to maintain the railway infrastructure they were operating, rather than the state, which simply allocated parts of the railways to different companies. However, the vast majority of private companies failed in their contractual obligations to maintain the infrastructure. This was one of the reasons for the eventual renationalisation of the railways.
On 25 March 2008, ADIF was formed, taking over the management all railway assets which had been under ONABE. As a whole, ADIFSE tends to assign infrastructure projects through public bidding for different projects. In May 2015, the new Ferrocarriles Argentinos holding company was created, and ADIFSE became one of its three subsidiaries, along with SOFSE (passenger services) and TACyL (freight). The budget of ADIFSE in 2015 was AR$ 9 billion.
The company is a minority (49%) shareholder in a joint venture with the German company Vossloh
Vossloh AG is a rail technology company based in Werdohl in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The SDAX-listed group has achieved sales of around €930 million in 2016 with more than 4,000 employees (as of 2017).
Vossloh is a global ...
called ''Vossloh Cogifer Argentina SA'', with a production plant located near the city of La Plata
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...
.- Railway Gazette, 23 January 2013.
See also
*Trenes Argentinos
Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado (abbreviated SOFSE; trading name: Trenes Argentinos Operaciones) is an Argentine state-owned company created in 2008 to operate passenger services in Argentina. It is a subsidiary of the Ferrocarriles Ar ...
** Operaciones (passenger)
** Cargas (freight)
* Rail transport in Argentina
The Argentine railway network consisted of a network at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of the most extensive and prosperous in the world. However, with the increase in highway construction, there followed a sharp decl ...
References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Administracion de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias Sociedad del Estado Railway infrastructure managers Railway companies of Argentina Railway companies established in 2008