TRENITALIA has received three bids for a contract worth around €1.5bn to supply 130 regional diesel and electric multiple units with options for a further 60 trains.
A full-size mock-up of Trenitalia's forthcoming ETR 1000 Frecciarossa emu was unveiled at the Rimini Meeting festival on August 19 by Italian prime minister Mr Mario Monti.
GERMAN RAIL (DB) subsidiary DB Regio has exercised an option worth €108m for an additional 32 class 146 electric locomotives from Bombardier.
Emerging technologies are helping light rail operators to escape some of the visual, operational and financial restrictions of overhead catenary. Keith Barrow reports from Augsburg on the development of Bombardier's induction-based Primove system.
BELGIAN public transport operator De Lijn has selected Bombardier as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 48 low-floor LRVs after the €128.6m deal was approved by the Flemish minister for mobility and public works, Mrs Hilde Crevits.
MANCHESTER is set to complete the renewal of its tram fleet by 2014 after Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) approved the acquisition of a further 20 M5000 vehicles from Bombardier and Vossloh Kiepe.
BOMBARDIER has today signed cooperation agreements with Russian rolling stock supplier Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) to jointly develop and market metro and light rail vehicles for customers in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
BOMBARDIER has signed an agreement with CSR Puzhen, China, to licence a variant of its Flexity 2 light rail vehicle design. The 10-year licence will allow CSR Puzhen to build and sell 100% low-floor LRVs throughout China.
BERLIN Transport Authority (BVG) has exercised an option with Bombardier for an additional 39 Flexity Berlin low-floor LRVs. The latest contract is worth €134m and takes the number of LRVs ordered from the 2006 framework agreement for 206 vehicles to 142.
PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) has placed a €1bn order with Alstom and Bombardier for an additional 70 MI09 double-deck emus for RER Line A. Alstom is responsible for two thirds of contact and Bombardier the remaining one third.
