WARSAW commuter rail operator SKM has launched a tender for supply of 13 EMUs together with a maintenance and training package. Closing date for bids is November 30.

RABAT-SALÉ Transport (STRS), Morocco, has awarded a €45m contract to Alstom for the supply of 22 Citadis LRVs for operation on the city’s 19km light rail network and two new extensions totalling 7km, which are due to open in the second half of 2019.

STOCKHOLM Local Transport (SL) has awarded CAF a contract to supply an additional 12 Urbos bidirectional LRVs for the city’s network, which will take the total vehicles produced by the Spanish manufacturer for the Swedish capital to 42.

BRAZILIAN rail freight and logistics operator Rumo has signed an agreement with GE Transportation for the installation of GE’s Trip Optimizer energy management system on its locomotive fleet.

WARSAW Metro has opened bids from five suppliers for its largest-ever order for new rolling stock, although only two bidders have offered a price within the operator’s Zlotys 1.69bn ($US 470m) budget.

JUST a month after it received its final Stadler Rail Flirt 3 Sprinter EMUs, Netherlands Railways (NS) revealed another new suburban train at Nedtrain’s Zaanstraat workshop in Amsterdam on October 19, when the CAF-built New Generation Sprinter (SNG) was presented to the press for the first time.

GENOA-based open-access rail freight operator InRail has awarded Siemens a contract to supply three Vectron electric locomotives.

THE first Citadis LRV for the initial phase of the Sétif light rail network arrived in the Algerian city on October 18.

HYUNDAI-Rotem announced on October 18 that it has been awarded a Won 111.6bn contract by Korean national train operator Korail to supply 128 commuter EMU cars.

MR Rafael Santana, president and CEO of GE Latin America, will take over from Ms Jamie Miller as president and CEO of GE Transportation on November 1 following Miller’s appointment as chief financial officer of GE.