The Hague orders 40 Siemens Avenio trams

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The Siemens Rail Systems Division will manufacture 40 four-unit low-floor Avenio trams for the HTM Materieel B.V. operator in The Hague.

With this contract, the seat of the Dutch government is the first city in the world to decide in favor of the new generation of Avenio trams.

The contract for the 40 vehicles, including driver training, documentation and spare parts, is worth more than €100 million.

Siemens and the customer have agreed a purchase option for up to 40 additional Avenio trams.

The Avenio will be manufactured at the Siemens plant in Vienna with a workforce of around 900.

Delivery to The Hague is scheduled to start in February 2014.

“The Avenio is the most recent development in Siemens’ long-standing tram history, which dates back as many as 130 years, and also the world’s most modern, low-noise low-floor tram”, emphasised Hans-Jörg Grundmann, CEO of the Siemens Rail Systems Division.

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