SWEDISH regional transport operator Skånetrafiken has awarded Alstom a SKr 1.5bn ($US 180m) contract to supply 25 additional class X61 Coradia Nordic EMUs, taking its total fleet of these trains to 99 sets.
THE total value of rail equipment exported from China surged by 22.6% to Yuan 26.77bn ($US 4.38bn) last year, according to statistics released this week by the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
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ROMANIAN rolling stock manufacturer Softronic and LAC Holding, Hungary, have signed an agreement to establish a locomotive assembly plant in Hungary.
DOWNER EDI announced on February 4 that it has secured a 10-year contract worth around $A 1bn ($US 782m) to maintain more than 300 locomotives for Pacific National, Australia's largest private railfreight operator.
AUDI has awarded Alstom a contract to supply two H3 hybrid locomotives for shunting operations at its Ingolstadt automotive plant in Bavaria.
POLISH rolling stock manufacturer Newag announced on February 2 it has secured a €17.5m contract to supply five E6DCF-DP Dragon electric locomotives to ING Lease Poland for use by open-access railfreight operator Freightliner PL.
THE first of 15 six-car trains being supplied by CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles, China, for Rio de Janeiro metro Line 4 was unloaded at the city's port on January 27.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has exercised an option worth SFr 120m ($US 128.8m) with Alstom for four additional ETR 610 Pendolino tilting EMUs.
PARIS Transport Authority (RATP), Ile-de-France Transport Authority (Stif) and Grand Paris (SGP) have jointly placed a 15-year framework contract with Alstom worth in excess of €2bn for a fleet of 217 MP 14 rubber-tyred metro trains.
