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French company Alstom has signed a contract with the municipality of Cluj-Napoca to build the first metro line in the city of Cluj-Napoca in the Transylvania region of Romania The first line of the new metro will include 19 underground stations and stretch for 21 km upon completion after 8 years of construction, according to Railway Supply magazine citing Alstom.

Tbilisi City Hall has initiated the procedure to terminate the agreement with the company "Metrowagonmash" The agreement envisaged the acquisition of 44 carriages for the Tbilisi Metro, as reported by the railway portal Railway Supply.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has re-announced a tender for the supply of metro trains for Kharkiv The new tender, valued at €45 million excluding VAT, involves the supply of 8 five-car metro trains with through passages.

The first train of the Warsaw Metro, series 81, arrived in Kyiv in the morning. In total, 60 wagons will be delivered to the capital of Ukraine.

The Rotterdam RET metro made its first trip to the new station on Hoek van Holland beach on Friday. The station had been finished for a some time, but setbacks meant services could not start until now.

In the summer of 2023, Subway Line 11 of Suzhou (Jiangsu province) will connect this city of 10 million with neighbouring Shanghai.

Rail solutions provider Hitachi Rail has received an order worth approximately $200 million for the Chennai Metro Rail project in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The authorities of Warsaw have presented the general scheme of development of public transport until 2050, providing both lengthening of existing lines and construction of new subway lines.

Alstom, together with Île-de-France Mobilités, Société du Grand Paris (SGP), has presented the final rolling stock design for the future line 18 of the Île-de-France metro network.

While waiting for the metro to arrive, residents of Brussels will be able to listen to the birds chirping of the famous Suan forest, located at the southeast edge of the city.

This was announced by the vice-mayor of the Georgian capital, Irakli Khmaladze, writes Railway Supply, citing RollingStock.

The French engineering concern and operator Metroselskabet have signed a contract worth about €30 million. It involves the modernization of 34 metro trains operating on the M1 and M2 lines in the Danish capital for almost 20 years.