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South Korean company Hyundai Rotem has been formally awarded by Poland’s capital city tramway operator Tramwaje Warsawskie to supply 123 new low-floor trams with an option of another 90 by October 2022. Purchase price is 1.85bn (aprrox. EUR 430 million).
The order is split into three parts:
- 85 (+ 45 option) bi-directional, 5-section tramways of 33m length
- 18 (+ 45 option) single-ended, 5-section tramways of 33m length
- 20 single-ended, 3-section tramsways of 24m length
Hyundai Rotem had been selected as preferred bidder already in February 2019, upon finalization of the bidding process started in September 2018. The operator had declared void a previous tender for 213 trams in August 2017. Hyundai Rotem plans to build a production line in Poland.
The current operating fleet consists of 744 tramway cars, more than half of it high-floor vehicles usually coupled in pairs which are based on the Polish “standard” 105N tram, developed in the 1970’s by Konstal.
Tramwaje Warszawskie already operates a fleet of 281 Pesa-built low-floor trams, built between 2007 and 2015 – pictures a 120N (left) and a 120Na (right) I UTM More than half of Warsaw’s tram fleet consists in 4-axle high floor trams which are all based on the Polish “standard” 105N tram (from left to right: HCP Cegielski 123N from 2007, modernised 105Na from Konstal from the 1990’s, Alstom/ Konstal 105N2k/2000 from 2001) I UTM