Cottbusverkehr GmbH (CV), the public transport company from the city of Cottbus, Germany, which signed a contract with Škoda Group for the delivery of seven trams in 2021, has decided to use the option and has ordered 15 more modern unidirectional three-unit trams. This represents another success of the Group on the German market. The…
2022 was undoubtedly a year of challenges for BORCAD. After 32 years since the establishment of the company, its founder and owner Ivan Boruta decided to sell it. The new owners are private equity funds Genesis Capital and Integral Venture Partners from the Czech Republic and Hungary. “The decision to look for new partners for…
Stadler Rail will produce 42 five-car EMU’s for the Tyne & Wear Metro in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The VÚKV a.s. testing laboratory carried out stationary rotational resistance moment measurements on the measuring turntable in the new VÚKV testing hall, safety against derailment tests on a twisted track and sway tests of one EMU. Both last-mentioned…
Two large national companies, the Hungarian R-KORD (part of the V-Híd holding) and the Czech AŽD, signed a contract for the supply of signalling equipment and a unified European Train Control System ETCS for the Szeged – Röszke – HU/SRB border project in Hungary. As a part of the modernization of the signalling equipment, AŽD…