US EditionBelgium Train Operator Grants Spain’s CAF €3.4b Contract
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The project of a first renewal of 180 trainsets of the Belgian fleet has escaped Alstom. It is the Spanish group CAF that seems to have taken over the launch of the project.
Belgium train operator grants Spain’s CAF €3.4b contract
The Spanish train manufacturer CAF has outbid all other competitors, winning a 3.4 billion-euro contract to build hundreds of trains to renew Belgium’s railway fleet, the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNBC) said on Wednesday via a press release. The decision has not passed without controversy, as local unions are concerned over domestic employment. SNBC aims to renew at least half of its… Source
On Wednesday, SNCB announced its choice for the renewal of its train fleet by 2034, a multi-billion euro contract covering a maximum of 600 trainsets.
The public company SNCB confirms the award to the company Guipuzcoa after freezing its first decision for four months due to pressure from trade unions and European competitors Read
CAF, the Spanish manufacturer of trains, is made up of the popularly known 'contract of the century' in the railway jargon after reaffirming itself as the preferred partner of a contract tendered by the Belgian SNCB, which part of almost 1.7 billion euros, and can be doubled in the future, by supplying 600 trains. It does so, after the meeting of the council the railway public society of Belgium has confirmed the choice of the manufacturer Guipu…
The Board of Directors of SNCB confirmed its choice of the Spanish company CAF for the one billion euro contract for the supply of new cars. ...
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