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Recent deals and tenders in the passenger rolling stock market.
Portugal: French manufacturer has finalised a contract with state operator Comboios de Portugal. The deal, worth more than €1 bln, includes the supply of 153 three-car Adessia Stream trainsets.
Russia: An eleven-car trainset is undergoing a cycle of technical and running trials. Specialists are verifying the performance of traction and braking systems, high-voltage equipment, pantographs, and air-conditioning units.
Kazakhstan: The national operator Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) has received the final batch consisting of 17 units.
Türkiye: The operational testing launch ceremony took place on 6 March in Sakarya, attended by the country's Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu.
Spain: By the 2030s, Talgo plans to develop a new HSR platform, which will be a more energy-efficient successor to the Avril train featuring a maximum operating speed of 330 km/h.
Russia: Information published following a meeting of the board of directors of Federal Passenger Company reveals that the operator has provisionally approved a deal with the the TMH plant in Tver.
Austria: Two 11-car sets have begun passenger operations between Vienna and Villach.
France: The eight-car trainset built by Alstom in 1995 has been refurbished, with its service life extended by four years. It took seven weeks to conduct the works at the national operator’s depot near Paris.