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The Lille European Metropolitan Area has chosen Alstom to supply its new trams to replace existing rolling stock on the historic ‘Mongy’ line, which links the cities of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing. 

On 18 July 2023 the Board of Directors of Île-de-France Mobilités (IdFM) has awarded the contract to operate and maintain Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express to the international ORA Consortium which comprises RATP Dev as majority shareholder, Alstom, and ComfortDelGro.

On 18 July 2023 Škoda Group announced that it will participate in the delivery of new Alstom-built Flexity 2 trams to Melbourne.

Toulouse Métropole and Tisséo (the transport authority of Toulouse), Brest Métropole (the transport authority of Brest) as well as Grand Besançon Métropole and Ginko (the transport authority of Besançon) have chosen Alstom for the acquisition of new generation trams. The group awarded Alstom with a frame agreement of eight years, including a minimum order of 22 trams.

On 25 April 2023 Alstom has been awarded a contract by Quebec City for the supply of 34 Citadises.

18 February 2023 saw the commercial launch of the two tramway lines in Mostaganem, Algeria.

On 15 February 2023 Île-de-France Mobilités, Société du Grand Paris (SGP) and Alstom have unveiled the final design of the rolling stock for the future Line 18 of the Île-de-France metro network.

On 20 December 2018, WLB (Wiener Lokalbahnen) awarded Bombardier Transportation an order for 18 Type TW500 FLEXITY LRVs for Badner Bahn, the first of which entered service in late December 2022.

On 17 May 2022, Alstom, a member of the TMT Consortium (TLV Metropolitan Tramway Ltd.) and its partners Electra Ltd. & Dan Transportation, have been awarded a contract to design, build, maintain, and finance the Tel Aviv Metropolitan LRT Green Line by Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd (NTA).

On 21 April 2022, Alstom has signed a framework contract with Department of Transport Victoria, Australia, for the provision of 100 Flexity low-floor Next Generation Trams (NGTs) for the largest urban tram network in the world.

On 13 April 2022, Alstom has signed a supply contract with Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main (VGF) for 13 Citadis trams.

On 9 February 2022 Alstom announmced that it has received an order, worth 100 million EUR, to deliver 40 new trams to Västtrafik for use in Göteborg.

The contract for 146 new double-deck EMUs for RATP’s RER B line, has reached the next stage. 

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.

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