TURKEY: The second Durmazlar tram arrived in Samsun on November 17 after a journey by road from Durmazlar’s factory in Bursa that began the previous day.

Samsun Metropolitan Municipality ordered eight five-section trams for Durmazlar in 2015 under a €12·3m contract. The first arrived in the city in late October.

Required for services on the newly extended tram line, the vehicles are 31·8 m long, 2 650 mm wide and 3·3 m high with capacity for 290 passengers.