RUSSIA: Stadler’s Metelica tram has started six months of testing in Samara. The city is planning to buy 30 trams ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in which it will be a host city.
Testing of the Metelica tram in Moscow ended in June. The tram has covered 10 000 km since February, including test running with passengers.
The prototype 100% low-floor 1 524 mm gauge tram built by Stadler Minsk was unveiled last year.
BELARUS: Belkommunmash’s first Type BKM-802 single-section tram has entered trial service on the 11 km line linking the city of Navapolatsk with a nearby petrochemical complex. Derived from the articulated BKM-843/84300M design, the 1 524 m gauge four-axle BKM-802 is intended as a low-cost vehicle for use on smaller networks. ...
BELARUS: President Alexander Lukashenko attended the opening of Stadler’s factory in Fanipol on November 20. The factory was built on a greenfield site in the town outside Minsk and will be used for the production of Kiss and Flirt trains, as well as trams, for the CIS market. ...
STADLER RAIL: Initial successes have been achieved under the strategy of targeting new markets and sectors to counteract the effect of the European debt crisis and changes in exchange rates, Stadler Rail said when presenting its annual results for 2013. Orders with a total value of SFr2·6bn were received in ...
