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Bombardier Transportation was awarded an order to supply 46 bidirectional Bombardier FLEXITY Outlook trams for use in Brussels, Belgium. The total value of the contract is approximately $191 million Cdn (125 million Euros), including $162 million Cdn (106 million Euros) for the vehicles. Delivery of the 100% low-floor trams is expected to take place between June 2005 and February 2007.
Production of the vehicles will be undertaken by Bombardier mainly at its facility in Bruges, Belgium; the bogies will be produced at its Siegen site and the propulsion, at its Mannheim facility, both in Germany.
This order brings to 290 the number of FLEXITY Outlook vehicles purchased since 1999. Similar vehicles are in successful revenue service in the cities of Linz (Austria) and Lodz (Poland) and have recently been ordered by the cities of Eskisehir (Turkey) and Geneva (Switzerland).
Bombardier Inc., a diversified manufacturing and services company, is a world-leading manufacturer of business jets, regional aircraft, rail transportation equipment and motorized recreational products.