Peru Rail
PeruRail is a railway operator working tourist, freight, and charter services in southern Peru. It was founded in 1999 by Lorenzo Sousa and Sea Containers.
The main line between the port of Matarani, Arequipa (the capital of this region is Peru's second largest city), Cusco and Puno on Lake Titicaca was formerly known as the Ferrocarril del Sur (Peru Southern Railway), and was for a time owned and operated by the ENAFER state company. It is the second highest railway in the world after the Qinghai–Tibet Railway to Tibet.
From Cusco, PeruRail provides passenger services on the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge Ferrocarril Santa Ana to Aguas Calientes, delivering tourists for Machu Picchu.
It operates in a 50-50 venture with Orient-Express Hotels and Peruvian partner, namely Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri and son Renzo Sousa, owners of the holding company Peruvian Trains and Railways. Lorenzo Sousa is the Chaiman of the Board of Directors of the company.
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