BOMBARDIER announced on June 20 that it will provide six Traxx MS multi-system electric locomotives to Captrain Germany for cross-border freight transport in Europe, mainly in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

PRIVATE German train operations company HSL Logistik announced on January 16 that it had signed a contract with Bombardier for the delivery of four Traxx AC3s at the end of 2016.

FOLLOWING an international tender, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Transport of the German state of Saarland announced on January 9 that DB Regio and Netinera subsidiary Vlexx have been awarded contracts to operate the Saar Electric Network for 15 years from December 2019.

BOMBARDIER announced on January 12 that it has delivered its first Innovia automated people mover (APM) 300 vehicle to China, and will be used on a shuttle service to Shanghai Metro Line 8.

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) has selected a consortium of Alstom-Bombardier to renew trains on lines D and E of the Paris RER network.

BOMBARDIER announced on December 29 that the first of 14 driverless Innovia Metro 300 trains ordered by Prasarana to expand the fleets on the Kelana Jaya Line on the Kuala Lumpur light metro network had entered service.

SOUTH Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink) signed a $C 93m ($US 69.5m) contract with Bombardier on December 16 for 28 Mark III light metro cars for Vancouver’s SkyTrain automated light metro network.

THE European Investment Bank (EIB) and Rotterdam Electric Tram (RET) have signed a €120m loan agreement to support investment in new Bombardier metro trains and to renew signalling and safety systems on the metro network.

MÁV-START, Hungary, issued a call for tender on December 10 for the supply of up to 10 high-capacity EMUs under a framework agreement for a total of 40 trains. Each train will have at least 600 seats which implies that the EMUs will likely be double-deck.