About Us
Since 1992, MVM Rail has been applying its extensive experience, broad capabilities and resources to constructing and maintaining railways in many parts of the world.MVM Rail has considerable experience in the project management and construction of urban rail and tram systems, heavy haul railways and regional rail. The company is headquartered in Queensland with offices in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, with the National Plant Department located in Williamstown, Victoria.
MVM was founded in Australia in 1992 as a partnership between an Australian company owned by Jim Matijasevich, an Italian company called Valditerra spa and a Spanish company called COMSA owned by the Miarnau family.
In 2006 Macmahon Holdings, a leading Australian construction and contract mining company, bought a 60 per cent stake in MVM, increasing service capabilities to offer clients an integrated “in house” civil and rail construction capacity.
Macmahon operates throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. The company is headquartered in Perth, with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Lagos.
MVM Rail’s other key shareholder, COMSA EMTE (40 per cent), is a leading specialist rail track contractor in Europe and South America. The privately owned company has vast experience in railway design, construction, maintenance, operations and ownership, with particular focus on high speed track and underground railway systems. COMSA also operates a number of railways in Spain.
In addition to MVM Rail’s Australian project portfolio, the company has been involved in a number of complex rail projects in Asia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. MVM also delivered the civil and track portion of the AU$533M Luas tram system in Dublin, Ireland as part of a consortium.
MVM Rail is known domestically and internationally for five major things:
1. Alliance management
2. Track construction
3. Track rehabilitation & maintenance
4. Track asset management &
5. Civil infrastructure construction
MVM Rail’s Philosophy
MVM Rail places utmost priority on the safety, wellbeing and development of its people. They are committed to achieving industry best practice safety performance and have dedicated safety professionals working with their project teams to achieve this. MVM Rail has also implemented comprehensive safety training and skills development programs for their staff and workforce to ensure that its employees remain safe, capable and fulfilled.