Bombardier wins $235 million Brussels order
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefThe Brussels Transport Company STIB on Thursday confirmed a $235 million order for an additional 65 bi-directional Bombardier FLEXITY Outlook trams. With completion of this order, Brussels will have a fleet of 220 Bombardier trams. Delivery is scheduled between January 2013 and the end of April 2015.
Bombardier said this means that STIB will have the largest tram fleet of one vehicle type worldwide. The new trams will be manufactured at Bombardier’s Bruges site in Belgium, with the Siegen facility in Germany supplying the bogies.
More than 1,500 FLEXITY vehicles are already in revenue service. Bombardier now has more than 3,000 trams and light rail vehicles operating or on order in cities across Europe, Australia, and North America.
