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Romania: The five-car low-floor tram arrived in the city on Saturday, 18 May.
Russia: As Delovoy Petersburg media quotes a presentation by Andrey Stepnov, CEO of the TMH plant in Mytishchi, which he gave at SPbTransportFest, an international transport festival in St Petersburg.
Germany, Egypt: The four-car trainset was presented on the Wegberg-Wildenrath test facility.
Iran: The prototype MP610 diesel engine has been presented during a visit by two Iranian ministers to the Mapna Group’s plant in Fardis.
Spain: The first ten AVE trains have commenced operation between Madrid and Galicia and Asturias. These are the world’s first variable gauge trains with a max speed of 330 km/h. The prototype was unveiled in 2012, and the delivery was delayed by more than 3 years.
Austria: OBB-Infrastruktur, an Austrian infrastructure subsidiary of OBB, has placed an order with the Swiss manufacturer for 18 such trains with a total value of €230 mln.
Sierra Leone: A batch of ten locomotives for a 1,067 mm gauge line was delivered to the African mining company Leone Rock Metal Group.
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India: The German company is investing INR 1.8 bln ($22 mln) to expand their plant in Aurangabad, opened in November 2022 to manufacture bogies.