Spanish rolling inventory producer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has gained two contracts in Italy to supply rolling inventory for metro and tram methods.
The offers are with the cities of Palermo and Naples and have been signed along side a separate contract with Cagliari for buses.
The Spanish producer will provide the Naples metro system with six new models, together with depot elements and a three-year upkeep settlement. The trains will function on the Piscinola/Scampia – Aversa line to start with, earlier than being prolonged to the road working from Piscinola to Miano, Secondigliano and Di Vittorio and linked to Line 1 of the community.
These six-car metro trains full the framework contract CAF entered with Ente Autonomo Volturno (the Naples area prepare and metro operator) three years in the past for ten trains, 4 of which have been ordered in 2020.
CAF has additionally been awarded a three way partnership contract, together with Italian development firm Sis Scpa, for the event of a tram community in Palermo, Sicily. It’ll present 9 trams initially, with an possibility for the town to increase the contract for an additional 35 trams.
The undertaking in Sicily is value greater than €400 million ($436m), which will probably be partially financed with funds from “Pact for the South” – a key measure by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in 2016.
Together with the supply of 98 electrical buses to Cagliari in Sardinia, CAF mentioned the offers are value €150m ($163m).
