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On 5 April 2021, Metrovagonmash and Tashkent Metro signed a contract for the delivery of 40 Model 81-765.5/766.5/767.5 metro cars for the Uzbek capital.

Keolis and its partners were selected as the successful bidders for a nine-year contract, with a possible six-year extension (2x three years), to operate and maintain the Dubai’s metro and tram networks from September 2021.

In August 2020 we informed about the new Class 17000 EMU destined for Tokyo Metro Tokyo Yūrakuchō and Fukutoshin lines.

On 1 January 2021, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority started regular service on the Dubai Metro Route 2020.

Stadler is making localism a key tenet of the project to build, supply and maintain new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro.

On 10 December 2020, six Model 81-717/714 metro cars left St. Peterburg for Samara following a major overhaul, which was carried out by the Metrovagonmash subsidiary OEVRZ.

On 27 November 2020 Alstom began shipping the second of the ten four-car Metropolis trains for the new Line 3 of the Hanoi metro.

On 25 November 2020, Stadler has committed to collaborating with Newcastle University on a variety of projects, underscoring its commitment to the north east region. This follows the announcement in January that Nexus had awarded the Swiss train-builder the contract to build, deliver and maintain 42 new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro.

On 20 November 2020, a Model 81-775/776/777 train in the version for Moskovsky Metropoliten, produced at Metrovagonmash, won the „Formula of motion“ National Award for achievements in the transport field.

On 6 November 2020, Metrovagonmash and Sofia Metro signed an agreement, which follows that from 24 March 2020 for option to modernise an additional batch of 40 Model 81-717.4/714.4 metro cars

On 25 October 2020 Bombardier Transportation celebrated delivery of the 800th MOVIA metro car to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

In early October, Škoda Vagonka of Ostrava finished a bodyshell for the first car of the new Warsaw metro train.

Metrovagonmash (MVM) developed a new version of the metro cars, Models 81-775/776/777, which are expected to be built for Moskovsky Metropoliten (Moskva metro) between 2020 and 2023.

On 8 October 2020, Bombardier Transportation unveiled the next-generation design of its MOVIA metros for two of Singapore’s longest Mass Rapid Transit Lines.

Before the new metro Line 3 in Sofia went into operation on 26 August 2020, Vossloh gave the newly-laid rails an initial grinding to prepare them for service.