EUR 43M: SIEMENS-BOMBARDIER

[BIZ/IND: Wegberg-Wildenrath/Erlangen, Oct 14]
The Transportation Systems Group (TS) of Siemens AG is to convert five ICE 3 units for service in France in cooperation with Bombardier Transportation. The Siemens-led consortium and Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) has reached an agreement on a related project that has an order volume of approximately EUR 43 m. This conversion work will be carried out at Bombardier and at the Siemens rolling stock test center in Wegberg-Wildenrath near Mönchengladbach. The ICE 3 trainsets are due to go into service from 2007 in the German-French railway network on a direct Paris–Eastern France–Frankfurt link.
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