BASF orders 22 diesel locomotives from Vossloh

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BASF has ordered 22 modular center-cab locomotives from Vossloh Locomotives.

The new machines will be used on mainline and shunting services in Ludwigshafen, Schwarzheide and Antwerp.

BASF and Vossloh have also agreed on ‘wide-ranging services and to team up in fine-tuning the vehicle fleet maintenance and parts logistics’.

Altogether the contract is valued at around €40 million.

The order compromises of sixteen G 6, four DE 12 and two DE 18 locomotives.

All 22 units are members of the ‘same family engineered to a common modular platform’.

The triple-axle 690-kW G 6 is the first of the new Vossloh locomotive family.

 

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