RUSSIA: UKVZ is to supply 10 single-section Type 71-623-02.01 partly low-floor trams to the city of Magnitogorsk.
The company was the only bidder for the contract, which is being financed by the national government’s Clean Air programme.
The order is worth the 370m roubles, with 30% to be paid an advance and the trams scheduled to be delivered by December 1 this year.
This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector
RUSSIA: Magnitogorsk city transport operator Maggortrans signed a hire purchase contract for covering the supply of 15 trams on August 9. Roscosmos subsidiary United Missile & Space Corp was the sole bidder in the tender to supply 16·4 m long unidirectional partly low-floor trams. Roscosmos owns tram manufacturer UKVZ. ...
RUSSIA: A Magnitogorsk KTM-5 tram which was damaged by fire last year has been extensively rebuilt by Yekaterinburg-based NPO Avtomatika, which sees a large potential market for modernising similar trams in use across Russia. The city of Magnitogorsk is planning to renew its entire fleet within 10 years, and modernisation ...
