Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has won an order from Bure for seven TRAXX F140 AC locomotives.
The locomotives are designed for freight transport in Sweden and Norway, with delivery expected in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The contract is valued at approximately €24 million.
Bure has purchased these locomotives to lease them to train operator RushRail AB.
In April, RushRail won a multi-year transportation contract for Tratag AB. Tratag is a logistics company, owned by Stora Enso and Korsnas.
Its purpose is to handle rail transportation of forest products, timber, pulpwood and biofuel.
RushRail will, in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner, transport timber and other forest products by rail from Stora Enso and Korsnas’s timber terminals to their production sites around central Sweden. The contract is one of the largest of its kind in Sweden.
Peter Ammann, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Bombardier Transportation’s Locomotives Unit, said:
“We are proud that Bure as a new customer and RushRail as the operator have chosen our TRAXX locomotives to serve this significant rail transport undertaking.”
Production of the locomotives will take place at Bombardier’s Kassel plant in Germany.
The carbodies will be produced at Bombardier’s Wroclaw, Poland site, bogies at its Siegen, Germany site, while the Propulsion and Controls equipment will be manufactured at its Mannheim and Hennigsdorf sites, also in Germany.
