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BLS Cargo acquires 25 new locomotives goods multiarranges
Will be supplied by the Siemens Mobility between the 2025 and 2020 end of
October 21, 2019
Railway society Helvetic BLS Cargo has agreed the purchase of 25 new locomotives goods multisystem that will be employed on the corridor North-South from Belgium/Holland to Italy. Specifying that the purchase is dictated by the necessity to invest in the substitution in the short term of old locomotives and by the greater means requirements in order to reach the fixed objectives of increase, the company has emphasized that the initiative will allow with BLS Cargo to conquer also the Belgian market and to strengthen own operativity in the transboundary traffic goods.
The BLS managing director Cargo, Dirk Stahl, has specified that the new locomotives, besides at the market Belgian opening, will afford to ulteriorly optimize the production in more grip synergy with the Belgian railroad goods Crossrail Benelux that is found by BLS Cargo at the beginning of 2019.
The store clerk is assigned to the Siemens Mobility that gives the end of 2020 to 2025 will deliver to the BLS Cargo 25 locomotives multiarranges Vectron that will join to the 15 locomotori of the same type that they make already part of the fleet of the Swiss railway company. These locomotives are equipped of systems of traction and safety that allow circular in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Holland and Switzerland.
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