BRAZIL: Porto Alegre metro operator Trensurb has awarded CAF Brasil Indústria e Comércio a R$79·7m contract to maintain its fleet of 25 trainsets for five years. The contract covers preventive and corrective maintenance of the four-car trainsets.
Trensurb plans to invite tenders soon for the maintenance of the 15 Series 200 trainsets that are currently being produced by the Frota POA consortium of Alstom and CAF under a R$243·76m contract awarded in 2012.
Bangladesh: Using Indian credit, Rites is to supply 10 broad and 16 metre gauge locomotives to BR in 2013. Belarus: BC has awarded CZ Loko a €20m contract to supply 20 two-axle shunting locomotives. The TME3 will be a 1 520 mm gauge version of CZ Loko’s Effishunter, ...
BRAZIL: Porto Alegre regional metro operator Trensurb began tendering for a fleet of 15 four-car electric multiple-units on October 8. Prospective bidders have until October 31 to submit their proposals. The contract is expected to be worth up to RS$220m, funded by the federal government’s PAC programme to stimulate economic ...
BRAZIL: Bidders have until November 12 to present their proposals for building a 14⋅8 km metro line in the city of Porto Alegre, following the launch of tendering on September 10. The preferred submission for civil works, rolling stock, signalling and other aspects of system design would then form the ...
