Bombardier Transportation and Deutsche Bahn (DB) have signed a framework agreement for 800 double-deck coaches with a total volume of up to 1.5 billion euros ($2.1 billion US). With the new generation of vehicles, Deutsche Bahn will actively compete for tenders in the local rail transport market in 2009.
Bombardier Transportation will build 34 additional double-deck coaches for the Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen GmbH (LNVG). The order is worth approximately 46 million euros ($66 million US) and will enhance the LNVG's current fleet of 186 Bombardier double-deck coaches, in use since 2003.
The Bombardier TRAXX platform has now become the first locomotive family in the world to receive EC (European Community) certification in accordance with the technical specifications for interoperability (TSI), 'Safety in Railway Tunnels' (SRT).
Bombardier announces today that Bombardier Transportation signed a 3.75 billion euro (approximately $5.4 billion US) Letter of Credit Facility agreement on December 17, 2008 with a syndicate of first quality international financial institutions.
The consortium Bombardier Transportation and Alstom Transport have signed a contract for 72 M6 double-deck cars with the Belgian National Railways (SNCB).
Bombardier Aerospace welcomes the announcement that LAM-Mozambique (Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique) will take delivery of a previously owned Q400 high-speed turboprop airliner this week, and will acquire another in the near future.
The transport and logistics branch of the French Railways, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF) has confirmed a contract with Bombardier Transportation to supply 80 interoperable diesel electric BOMBARDIER TRAXX F140 DE locomotives, with an initial firm order of 45 locomotives.
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