Company News: Europe

News on equipment and service providers from Europe

• Volvo to supply 18 buses in Mexico City, Mexico

  September 9, 2019
  Sweden-based Volvo Buses has secured a MXN153.74-million contract from Red de Transporte de Pasajeros (RTP) / Passenger Transport Network to supply 18 articulated buses in Mexico City.

• Proton Power Systems and Schafer Elektronik enter into a JV

  September 6, 2019
  UK-based Proton Power Systems has entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with Germany-based Schafer Elektronik.

• Stadler to supply LRVs to BERNMOBIL in Switzerland

  September 6, 2019
  Stadler has secured a contract to supply 50 Tramlink metre-gauge light-rail vehicles (LRVs), with a firm order of 27 trams, to the public transport provider in Bern, BERNMOBIL.

• Solaris to supply 50 clean buses to Vy Buss, Sweden

  September 6, 2019
  Solaris has secured a contract from Vy Buss, the public transport operator in Sweden, to supply 50 buses.

• Solaris to supply electric buses in Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland

  September 6, 2019
  Solaris has secured PLN16 million contract from the City Council of Ostrów Wielkopolski to supply six Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses as well as three chargers.

• ABB, King Long to develop flash charger for buses, China

  September 5, 2019
  Switzerland-based ABB and China-based King Long Motor Group (King Long) have signed an agreement to develop a flash-charger for electric buses.

• Bombardier Transportation secures rolling stock contract for Victoria’s regional rail, Australia

  September 4, 2019
  Germany-based Bombardier Transportation has secured a contract from the state government of Victoria to supply six three-car trains for Victoria’s regional rail network operated by V/Line.

• EBS deploys 93 hybrid buses in the Netherlands

  September 4, 2019
  Egged Bus Systems (EBS) Public Transportation BV has deployed a fleet of 83 Citaro NGT hybrid solo buses and 10 Citaro G NGT hybrid articulated buses, supplied by Daimler Buses, for operations in Rotterdam –The Hague metropolitan area.

• FlixBus and Freudenberg to develop fuel cell buses; plans to seek funding from NIP

  September 2, 2019
  FlixBus, an intercity coach service provider in European countries, has collaborated with Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (Freudenberg) to deploy buses powered by fuel cell.

• Hess delivers trolleybuses to Salzburg AG, Austria

  August 30, 2019
  Hess has delivered the first trolleybuses to Salzburg AG as a part of its EUR15.3 million contract to supply 15 battery-powered trolleybuses.

• Knight Transfer of Technologies-led consortium to conduct Kumasi Tram feasibility study, Ghana

  August 30, 2019
  A Czech Republic-based Knight Transfer of Technologies-led consortium of seven companies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ghana’s Ministry of Railways Development to conduct a feasibility study for the development of a light rail transit (LRT) system in Kumasi.

• Ekoenergetyka to provide charging stations in Drammen, Norway [free access]

  August 28, 2019
  Ekoenergetyka-Polska (Ekoenergetyka) has secured a contract from Brakar, the public transport authority of Buskerud County, to provide up to 15 charging stations with a capacity of 300 kW and 450 kW for electric buses.

• Solaris emerges as sole bidder for bus rolling contracts in Pila and Lublin, Poland

  August 26, 2019
  Solaris Bus & Coach (Solaris) has emerged as a sole bidder in two separate bus contracts in Lublin and Pila.

• SOR to supply seven diesel buses in Nysa, Poland

  August 26, 2019
  Czech Republic-based SOR has secured a PLN5.25 million contract (net) from Starostwo Powiatowe w Nysie to supply seven buses fuelled by diesel in Nysa, Poland.

• Daimler delivers 30 buses to AB Best 350 Limited, South Africa

  August 26, 2019
  Germany-based Daimler Truck and Bus has delivered 30 buses to Africa’s Best 350 Limited (AB 350 Limited), the bus company operating in the eastern part of the Eastern Cape.

• Stadler delivers first of seven LRVs in Braunschweig, Germany

  August 23, 2019
  Stadler has delivered the first of seven Tramino II light rail vehicles (LRVs) to Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH (BSVG), the public transport operator in Braunschweig, Germany.

• Berlin U-Bahn rolling stock procurement on hold, Germany [free access]

  August 21, 2019
  Alstom has challenged Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe’s (BVG’s) decision to select Stadler Pankow as the preferred bidder for the contract to replace rolling stock on the U-Bahn network.

• Mercedes to supply 130 hybrid buses in Bucharest, Romania

  August 21, 2019
  Mercedes-Benz (Mercedes) has secured a RON195-million contract to supply 130 Citaro hybrid buses under a tender launched in March 2019.

• Malta deploys Otokar’s diesel buses

  August 21, 2019
  Malta Public Transport has deployed a fleet of 40 diesel buses, supplied by Turkey-based Otokar.

• Volvo to supply 10 buses for Metrobús Line 1, Mexico

  August 19, 2019
  Sweden-based Volvo Buses has secured a contract from Corredor Insurgentes SA (CISA), the operator of Line 1 of Mexico City’s bus rapid transit (BRT) system Metrobús, to supply 10 bi-articulated buses for the line.