Articles/Reports

• Protocolo de Luxemburgo: oportunidades para el sistema ferroviario en Colombia
  English version (free translation)
  Written by Elisa Muskus Escamilla 
  20th July 2024

• Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the railways – a new global approach
  Written by Howard Rosen, Article No. 120 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°102 – Second Quarter 2024]
  26th June 2024

• Response of the Rail Working Group to the UK House of Commons Transport Select Committee Consultation on the Draft Rail Reform Bill
  Rail Working Group 
  27th March 2024

• The real costs of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol for manufacturers 
  Howard Rosen   
  January 2024

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention and the Single European Railway Area (SERA)
  Howard Rosen   
  January 2024

• The Luxembourg Protocol – What do you need to know?
  Watson Farley & Williams LLP 
  21st November 2023

• Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits
  OECD 

• Effective and Fair ECA support for the Railways in Africa
  The Rail Working Group
  7th November 2023

• Big changes ahead for railway rolling stock identification
  Author: Marco Raimondi, Rail Freight

• ‘The benefits of rail equipment trust for rehabilitating local railways (Chiiki tetsudou no saisei ni muketa tetsudou setsubi shintaku no katsuyou)’in: Kojin Kin’yu winter 2021, pp.58-67
  http://www.yu-cho-f.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021winter_articles07.pdf
  Professor Souichirou Kozuka

• ‘Exploring the Possibility of Utilizing the Rail Equipment Trust: Efforts to Facilitate Rehabilitation of Local Railroad Transportation System (Tetsudou Shintaku no katsuyou kanousei: chiiki tetsudou no saisei ni musubitsukeru tameni)’ in: Rinshou Houmu Kenkyu vol.23, pp.65-76 (2020)
  http://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/files/public/5/58162/20200402132739847848/orl_023_065_076.pdf
  Professor Souichirou Kozuka

• ‘The rebirth of the rail equipment trust: its use for rehabilitating the local railways (Tetsudou setsubi shintaku no gendaiteki saisei: chiiki tetsudou sasei e no katsuyou wo jirei to shite)’ Shintaku Kenkyu Shoureikin Ronshu vol.39, pp.5-29 (2018)
  https://www.shintaku-kyokai.or.jp/archives/007/202008/39-02.pdf
  Professor Souichirou Kozuka

• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: Its positive impact on the cost of financing railway rolling stock in the UK
  Oxera
  30th November 2020

• Report of the Group of Experts on Permanent Identification of Railway Rolling Stock on its first session
  UN Economic Commission for Europe
  9th October 2020

• Combating global climate change: How the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention will help to battle global climate change
  Howard Rosen
  September 2020

• An Introduction to the Luhn Algorithm
  Howard Rosen
  10th June 2020

• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: Its positive impact on the cost of financing railway rolling stock in Africa
  English
  French
  Oxera
  13th May 2020

• Financing Rolling Stock: Luxembourg Rail Protocol steams ahead
  Barbara M. Goodstein, Howard Rosen
  4th April 2020 New York Law Journal

• South African rail manufacturing sector needs to reinvent itself
  The Rail Infrastructure, Engineering news & Mining weekly, March 6-12, 2020

• Positioning Africa to deliver on Agenda 2063 and economic integration through multi-sectoral approaches to infrastructure development.
  PIDA WEEK 2019
  25th-29th November 2019, Cairo Egypt

• Private financing of rolling stock – Developments in Europe
  Roland Berger, 20th May 2019

• Draft resolution on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock (the Luxembourg Protocol)
  United Nations, Economic and Social Council, Economic Commission for Africa, 22nd March 2019

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol – confronting the hard questions
  Howard Rosen, 27th March 2019

• Financing railway rolling stock: a new solution for Africa
  English
  French
  Arabic
  The issues paper presented by the secretariat of the UN ECA to the Committee of Experts, March 2019

• Luxembourg Protocol can save South Africa billions – Rail Working Group
  Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor, by: Natasha Odendaal, 14th February 2019

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol: Making The Railways Work For Africa
  Le protocole du Luxembourg: améliorer le fonctionnement du système ferroviaire pour l’Afrique
  Dr. Vera Songwe, Howard Rosen
  Railways Africa, February 2019

• Cheaper, simpler rolling stock financing: The benefits of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Andrew Meaney, Oxera Consulting LLP and Howard Rosen, Rail Working Group
  Paper presented to the European Transport Conference 2018, Dublin on 11th October 2018

• “The modern use of the rail equipment trust: the possibility of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol for the export of rail systems and introduction/rebirth of local railways”
  (Tetsudou Shintaku no Gendaiteki Tenkai: tetsudou sisutemu yushutsu to chiiki testudou no seibi saisei ni okeru Luxembourg Tetsudou Giteisho no katsuyou kanousei)
  鉄道車両信託の現代的展開――鉄道システム輸出と地域鉄道の整備・再生におけるルクセンブルク鉄道議定書の活用可能性
  Takashi Ieda and Souichirou Kozuka
  Gakushuin Houmukenkyu vol.11, p.57 (2017), 学習院法務研究

• A legal challenge for the Belt and Road Initiative
  Jelena Madir, Howard Rosen
  Law in Transition Journal 2018

• Eine gewichtige Lücke im schweizerischen Recht der Eisenbahnfinanzierung
  Stephan Erbe und Dr. Christian Hochstrasser
  Transportrecht 6/2018

• The Luxembourg Protocol – What do you need to know? 
  Watson Farley & Williams LLP
  21st November 2023

• From the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the draft MAC Protocol
  Benjamin von Bodungen, Howard Rosen
  Uniform Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 June 2018

• Rail Working Group: Thinking forward.
  Howard Rosen
  SWISSRAIL, Express Nr. 2, June 2018

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol. An essential element of international transport by rail.
  Le Protocole de Luxembourg composante essentielle du transport ferroviaire international
  Das Protokoll von Luxemburg (Eisenbahnprotokoll) ein wesentliches Element des internationalen Eisenbahnverkehrs
  Howard Rosen
  OTIF Bulletin No. 2/2018

• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: estimated impact on rolling stock financing cost in countries using the 1520 gauge
  Oxera
  25th June 2018

• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: estimated impact on rolling stock financing cost in South Africa
  Oxera
  12th June 2018

• Interview with Howard Rosen, Chairman of the Rail Working Group at the Middle East Rail 12th – 13th March 2018, published on 1st May 2018

• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: estimated impact on rolling stock financing cost in Europe
  Oxera
  February 2018

• Das Protokoll kann den Finanzierungsmarkt von grundauf verändern
  Shaun Mills, CEO Alpha Trains and Howard Rosen, Chairman, Rail Working Group
  bahn manager
  Issue no. 01 – 2018

• Commentary on ‘A Comparison of the Position of Buyers under the Cape Town Convention, the Three Existing Protocols and the Draft MAC Protocol’
  Howard Rosen
  Cape Town Convention Journal, 2017
  Vol. 6

• A Comparison of the Position of Buyers under the Cape Town Convention, the Three Existing Protocols and the Draft MAC Protocol
  Louise Gullifer
  Cape Town Convention Journal, 2017
  Vol. 6

• Why a new international treaty may make it easier for heritage railways to operate and prosper in the future
  Howard Rosen
  SA Rail
  Vol. 55 No. 3 2017

• Could the Luxembourg Protocol enhance Belt and Road competitiveness?
  卢森堡铁路议定书能提高一带一路的竞争力吗？
  Howard Rosen
  International Railway Journal
  1st August 2017

• Financing Rolling Stock; Luxembourg Rail Protocol Steams Ahead
  Barbara M. Goodstein and Howard Rosen
  New York Law Journal
  5th April 2017

• Private financing of rolling stock. Market analysis for Western and Eastern Europe
  Roland Berger
  29th March 2017

• Comparative analysis of aircraft, rail and space international registries and their regulatory provisions
  Rory McPhillips, Howard Rosen, Souichirou Kozuka & Stuart Kennedy
  5 Cape Town Convention Journal
  7th February 2017

• Commentary on ‘Comparative analysis of aircraft, rail and space international registries and their regulatory provisions’
  F. Scott Wilson
  5 Cape Town Convention Journal
  22nd November 2016

• Enquiry on the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Swedish Ministry of Justice
  20th June 2016

• La gran batalla por el mercado del tren
  El País
  17th April 2016

• Vías para tener un servicio rentable
  El País
  15th April 2016

• An African case for the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Grindrod
  18th March 2016

• UK signed Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Railway Pro
  11th March 2016

• The Luxembourg Protocol – turning vision into reality
  Howard Rosen
  International Railway Journal
  8th March 2016

• Rail Industry welcomes UK Signature of the Luxembourg Protocol
  GroupSpaces
  26th February 2016

• Rail Industry welcomes UK Signature of the Luxembourg Protocol
  facebook
  26th February 2016

• Luxembourg Protocol will reshape rolling stock funding
  Rail Gazette
  29th January 2016

• European governments still fund 88% of rolling stock procurement
  David Briginshaw
  International Railway Journal
  27th January 2016

• Private Financing of rolling stock. Market analysis for Western and Eastern Europe
  Roland Berger
  27th January 2016

• Investing in railways – on the right track
  The Economist
  12th December 2015

• The International Rail Registry and The Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention—Global Registration of Mobile Assets
  Elizabeth Hirst and Nicolas Gavage
  46 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal November 2015

• The Luxembourg Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock-Overview and Current Status
  Howard Rosen and Benjamin von Bodungen
  46 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal November 2015

• Why the Luxembourg Protocol will Boost Railway Investment in Africa
  Howard Rosen
  Railways Africa, Issue 5/2015

• Gathering Momentum?
  Watson Farley & Williams
  July 2015

• The Cape Town International Rail Registry and the Development of State Registries
  Martin Fleetwood and Peter Bloch
  3 Cape Town Convention Journal 2014

• Public Service and the Cape Town Convention
  Howard Rosen
  2 Cape Town Convention Journal 2013

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol – Extending Cape Town Benefits to the Rail Industry
  Howard Rosen, Martin Fleetwood and Benjamin von Bodungen
  17 Uniform Law Review 2012. Reproduced with UNIDROIT permission

• Building an African Infrastructure – Finance & Development
  Paul Collier
  International Monetary Fund dated December 2011, Vol. 48, No. 4.

• The Rail Industry Environmental Impact
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ
  15th December 2011

• Identification of Railway Rolling Stock and Registration
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ
  15th October 2011

• Regulation of the Rail Industry
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ
  15th September 2011

• The Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ
  15th August 2011

• Rail Supplement
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ
  15th July 2011

• Protecting rail assets in emerging markets: The Luxembourg protocol
  Rafael Castillo-Triana
  Journal of Equipment Leasing Finance Spring 2010 edition
  Copyright © 2010 by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation – ISSN 0740-008X.

• Putting trains back on track
  Howard Rosen
  Infrastructure Investor September – October 2008

• Industry pushes for stock numbers
  Jennifer Rankin, European Voice – October 2008
  © 2008 European Voice. All rights reserved.
  www.europeanvoice.com

• Das Luxemburger Eisenbahnprotokoll
  Zum Protokoll zum Übereinkommen über internationale Sicherungsrechte an beweglicher Ausrüstung betreffend Besonderheiten des rollenden Eisenbahnmaterials vom 23.02.2007
  Dr. Hans-Georg Bollweg, Berlin
  und Prof. em. Dr. Karl Kreuzer, Würzburg
  IPRax 2008, S. 176-187

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol:
  A Major Advance for the Railway Industry
  Howard Rosen
  12 Uniform Law Review 2007

• Reconciling the Luxembourg Rail Protocol with the Public Interest
  Presentation by Howard Rosen to the Committee for International Transport “Berner Tage”
  29th November 2007

• Protokoll von Luxemburg stellt Rollmaterialfinanzierung auf neue Grundlage
  Benjamin von Bodungen and Dr. Konrad Schott
  Eisenbahn Revue International, October 2007

• Will trams soon be getting the Luxembourg effect?
  Martin J. Fleetwood, October 2007

• All tracks lead to Luxembourg: the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Martin J. Fleetwood
  Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, June 2007

• On the Right Track
  Howard Rosen
  Published in Leasing World, April 2007

• The Last Word
  International Rail Journal, April 2007

• An Overview of the Draft Rail Protocol
  Briefing paper by Howard Rosen circulated in preparation for the Diplomatic
  Conference on the Rail Protocol, February 2007, in Luxembourg.

• AfricaRail Symposium Lomé November 2006
  Summary Report (engl.)
  Rapport de synthèse (fr.)

• The Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention – is this the way to rail investment?
  By Alexander Hewitt, a member of the rail team at Denton Wilde Sapte LLP.
  A version of this article first appeared in the October 2006 issue of
  Rail Professional

• Building a Railway to the Future – Progress on the Draft UNIDROIT / OTIF Rail Protocol
  Howard Rosen
  6 Uniform Law Review 2001.

• Creating an international security structure for railway rolling stock:
  an idea ahead of its time?
  Howard Rosen
  4 Uniform Law Review 1999

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