Croatia: HŽPP has awarded Končar a contract to supply 7 DMUs of 7023 series. Since 2011, Končar has produced 39 trains for HŽPP, including 5 such diesel multiple units and 34 electric trains of 6112 series.
Thailand: KMITL engineers plan to finish building a coach prototype next year. It is stated that the level of its localization will be 40%, and it will be 30% cheaper than imported analogues.
Slovakia, India: TVEMA completed certification tests of the ECHO-COMPLEX ultrasonic system for ŽSR, diagnostic systems for Indian Railways are at the acceptance stage.
India: In July, the national railway company launched a tender for the supply of 200 Vande Bharat trains of fourth generation and extended the receipt of applications for 200 Vande Bharat EMUs of third generation.
France: In an interview with LeMagIT, the Enterprise Data Director of Alstom discussed the upcoming merger of ERP systems of both manufacturers, as well as other priority tasks for the company in the IT field.
China: The CRRC's plant in Tangshan produced the first of 18 four-section trams under a 2020 contract for Porto. This delivery is the first urban rail contract for CRRC in EU.
South Korea: Hyundai Rotem, Woojin Industrial Systems and Dawonsys got a $43,1 mln USD fine for taking part in the collusion on $2.1 bln USD contracts for the supply of rolling stock for local operators.
Austria: The project has been implemented by the freight operator since 2019 together with the A1 mobile operator and is aimed at equipping up to 12,000 freight cars with SmartCargo telematics devices.
Russia: The first 71-923M “Bogatyr-M” trams with the Cognitive Tram Pilot active automated driver assistance system have entered the route. The city has already received 9 such vehiclse since May this year.
