FRANCE: On December 5 Bombardier announced a €160m firm order to supply SNCF with 45 Traxx F140 DE diesel-electric locomotives.
The first delivery is scheduled for May 2010, and orders for a further 35 locomotives could follow.
Bombardier has now sold more than 1 300 locomotives from the Traxx family.
SWEDEN: Green Cargo has placed a €51m order with Bombardier for 16 Traxx F140AC electric locomotives. To be delivered between February and July 2010, they will be used on freight trains to be operated under a 10-year contract with steel sheet and plate producer SSAB. Green Cargo's SKr2·5bn transport ...
EUROPE: The Railpool joint venture of HSH Nordbank and KfW-IPEX Bank has placed its first order for locomotives. On September 22 Bombardier announced that it had signed two contracts to supply the leasing firm with a total of 58 Traxx locomotives worth €192m. Deliveries will begin in August 2009, ...
Rapid liberalisation of Europe's rail sector, and an associated increase in cross-border operations, is challenging operators and suppliers to rethink locomotive design. The flexibility of the Traxx locomotive platform meets a wide range of requirements, and no fewer than 1 226 locomotives have been ordered to date
