ROCKY Mountaineer which operates tour trains in western Canada and Washington state has awarded a contract to Stadler to build 10 double-deck passenger coaches for delivery in 2018.
ALSTOM achieved a 12% increase in sales during its financial year which ended on March 31 rising from €6.16bn in 2014-15 to €6.88bn in 2015-16, while adjusted Ebit rose by 23% from €298m to €366m.
GO-AHEAD Transport Germany has awarded a contract to Stadler for 45 Flirt EMUs to operate on Lots 2 and 3 of the Stuttgart Network 1 concession which Go-Ahead will take over in April 2019.
THE first of 12 Jazz regional EMUs for the Italian region of Campania was formally presented to regional president Mr Vincenzo de Luca by Mrs Barbara Morgante, CEO of Trenitalia, and Mr Pierre Louis Bertina, CEO of Alstom Italy, on April 26.
BERN Solothurn Regional Transport (RBS), which operates a 54km metre-gauge network of suburban lines radiating from the Swiss capital Bern, has awarded Stadler a SFr 134m ($US 144.3m) contract to supply 14 new trains for use on line S7.
CAF, Spain, has reported a 39% drop in net profit for the first quarter of 2016 which fell from €14m in the first quarter of 2015 to €8.6m this year. Nevertheless CAF says its prospects for 2016 remain unaltered due to a strong order pipeline and improved efficiency.
ŠKODA Transportation handed over the last of 14 class 660/661 InterPanter EMUs for Czech Railways (ČD) at its Ostrava plant on May 5.
NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has selected Alstom as preferred bidder in the best and final offer phase for a contract to supply a fleet of 200km/h EMUs under its Intercity New Generation (ICNG) programme.
HYUNDAI Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iranian Islamic Republic Railways (RAI) in Tehran on May 3 which will provide a basis for formal negotiations for a contract to supply 150 DMU cars for Raja Passenger Train Company.
POLISH rolling stock supplier Newag has begun production of the first of 12 Impuls regional EMUs for the region of Lesser Poland at its plant in Nowy Sacz.
