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    Romanian route upgrading contract awarded

    2022-10-29T05:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Infrastructure manager CFR SA has selected a consortium of Webuild (50%), Pizzarotti (30%) and Salcef (20%) to modernise and electrify a section of the 166 km line from Cluj-Napoca to Episcopia Bihor near the Hungarian border. The €490m Lot 4 contract covers design and construction ...

  • Bozankaya Timișoara tram at InnoTrans 2022 (9)
    Metro Report International

    Timișoara tram battery offers 70 km of off-wire operation

    2022-09-23T08:22:00Z

    INNOTRANS: Turkish manufacturer Bozankaya is showing one of its custom designed trams for Timișoara, the first trams to be built new for the Romanian city in 50 years. They include a battery able to provide power for 70 km of off-wire operation, ...

  • Alstom Coradia Stream EMU for Romania
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    Romanian EMU order increased

    2022-09-19T07:52:00Z

    ROMANIA: Railway reform authority ARF has awarded Alstom a contract to supply a further 17 Coradia Stream inter-regional electric multiple-units and provide 15 years of maintenance. This follows on from an €270m order for an initial 20 EMUs which was announced in March, Alstom’s first order ...

  • Arad station (Photo Toma Bacic)
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    Timișoara – Arad route modernisation contracts

    2022-08-26T08:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Infrastructure manager CFR has selected a joint venture of Webuild and Salcef to modernise two sections of the Caransebeș - Timișoara – Arad line. The first contract is worth €448m and covers rehabilitation and double-tracking of the 56 km between Arad and the Ronat Triaj ...

  • Generic ÖBB Rail Cargo Group wagons (Photo: David Payr/ÖBB RCG)
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    Rail Cargo Group increases grain transport from Ukraine

    2022-06-30T10:59:00Z

    EUROPE: ÖBB Rail Cargo Group says it is dedicating ‘all available resources’ to transporting grain out of Ukraine as part of the European Commission’s Solidarity Lanes plan to protect food supplies following the Russian invasion and blockade of Black Sea ports. The capacity of RCG trains ...

  • Softronic LEMA 005 on Iacobeni - Vatra Dornei line (Photo: Tudosa Mihai)
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    CFR launches trans-Carpathian route modernisation

    2022-06-28T11:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Infrastructure manager CFR SA has commissioned technical and feasibility studies to support a comprehensive modernisation of the 409 route-km trans-Carpathian railway across the northeast of the country.

  • Timisoara Bozankaya tram (4)
    Metro Report International

    Bozankaya tram enters service in Timișoara

    2022-06-24T05:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: The first of 21 trams being supplied by Turkish company Bozankaya has entered service on Route 1 in Timișoara, the first tram supplied new to the city in 50 years. In July 2019 Bozankaya beat Pesa to win a contract for ...

  • Nurminen Logistics' first full-length container service from China to central Europe via southern Trans-Caspian route
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    Trans-Caspian rail and sea freight route to Europe launched

    2022-05-11T09:02:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: Nurminen Logistics’ first full-length container service from China to central Europe via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route left Chongqing on May 10. The containers will travel by rail through Kazakhstan to the port of Aktau, across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan and then by rail ...

  • Vicșani
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    Romania rehabilitates rail links to Ukraine

    2022-05-09T09:58:00Z

    ROMANIA: Additional tracks have been rehabilitated and brought back into use at Vicșani on the border with Ukraine, providing a total of seven 1 520 mm gauge and six 1 435 mm gauge tracks to increase capacity and reduce transhipment times. The Ministry of Transport has ...

  • București Imperio tram at factory (6)
    Metro Report International

    București tram delivery ahead of schedule

    2022-03-31T05:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: The first of 100 Imperio trams being built for the București network is nearing completion at the Astra Vagoane Călători factory in Arad, and is now expected to be delivered in early June. The trams were ordered ...

  • Alstom Coradia Stream EMU for Romania
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    Alstom wins Romanian EMU order

    2022-03-25T12:38:00Z

    ROMANIA: Alstom has announced its first order to supply main line passenger trains to Romania. The €270m contract signed with railway reform authority ARF and announced on March 25 covers the delivery of 20 Coradia Stream inter-regional electric multiple-units and the provision of 15 years of ...

  • Romania loco (Photo: Toma Bacic)
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    CFR studies electrification of secondary route to Bulgaria

    2022-03-22T16:15:00Z

    ROMANIA: CFR Infrastructură has awarded a nine-month contract worth €586 000 to Consis Proiect to conduct a feasibility study into the electrification of the Videle – Giurgiu railway line. It is estimated that it will cost €46m to electrify the line from Rădulești to Giurgiu Nord ...

  • Bucuresti Metrorex metro train (Photo: Toma Bacic)
    Metro Report International

    București awards Line M6 phase one contract

    2022-03-11T11:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Metrorex has awarded Turkey’s Alsim Alarko a €242m design and build contract covering the first section of București metro Line M6. The 6 km long section will have six stations (Pajura, Expoziției, Piața Montreal, Gara Băneasa, Aeroportul Băneasa and Tokyo), and is being financed jointly ...

  • Bucuresti metro train maintenance (Photo: Alstom)
    Metro Report International

    București metro train maintenance contract awarded

    2022-01-04T15:52:00Z

    ROMANIA: București metro operator Metrorex has awarded Alstom a 15-year contract to provide full preventive and corrective maintenance and overhaul services for its train fleet. The contract covers 82 trains totalling 492 cars which are currently in service, as well as the new trains on order ...

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    Pesa trams arrive in Iași

    2021-08-10T12:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: The first two of 16 Swing 122Na trams being built for Iași by Pesa have been delivered to the city, with nine more scheduled to arrive this year. The vehicles have been procured by the Ministry of Regional Development & Public ...

  • Astra Bucuresti tram impression
    Metro Report International

    București finally signs order for 100 trams

    2021-05-17T08:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: A €200m EU-backed contract for a partnership of Astra Vagoane Călători and CRRC Qingdao Sifang to supply 100 trams was signed by Mayor of București Nicușor Dan on May 11. The first of the trams is scheduled to be delivered in August 2022, with the rest ...

  • Regular train services between Henri Coandă airport and the centre of București began with the timetable change
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    București airport rail link opens

    2020-12-22T09:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Regular services between Henri Coandă airport and the centre of București began with the timetable change on December 12. Trains run every 40 min throughout the day and night, using a 2·95 km double-track branch off CFR’s București – Urziceni line to reach the airport station ...

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    Flood damaged railway to be revived

    2020-12-08T09:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Porr Construct has been awarded a €97m EU-financed contract to rehabilitate the direct line from București to Giurgiu, which has been out of use since the Grădiștea Bridge over the River Arges collapsed during flooding in 2005. Since then trains between the capital and Giurgiu on ...

  • București metro operator Metrorex has awarded Alstom a €100m contract to supply 13 trainsets for Line M5, with an option for another 17 which would take the value to an estimated €240m.
    Metro Report International

    Alstom awarded București metro Line M5 train contract

    2020-11-03T10:12:00Z

    ROMANIA: București metro operator Metrorex has awarded Alstom a €100m contract to supply 13 trainsets for Line M5, with an option for another 17 which would take the value to an estimated €240m. The order has been confirmed following the Court of Appeal’s rejection of challenges ...

  • ZAGRO road-rail vehicle for shunting work in Romania
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    Rail Logistics takes delivery of road-rail Unimog

    2020-11-01T05:00:00Z

    ROMANIA: Tank wagon maintenance and cleaning company Rail Logistics has taken delivery of a Unimog U423 with Zagro road-rail equipment. To be used for the reliable and rapid shunting of tank wagons on the tracks at Rail Logistics’ industrial site, the road-rail vehicle is designed for a ...