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On 18 December 2020, Bombardier Transportation and Railpool have announced the signature of a contract for an ETCS OBU from Baseline 2 to Baseline 3 upgrade for 73 of Railpool’s TRAXX MS2 locomotives.
On 7 December 2020, Railpool announced that at the turn of 2020/21 TX Logistik will raise the number of TRAXXes used in Switzerland to nine.
Bombardier Transportation announced that its Transnet locomotive fleet in South Africa has successfully completed ten million km in service since operations began in December 2017.
On 2 December 2020, Bombardier Transportation handed over the 200th TRAXX locomotive to Railpool.
On 18 November 2020, Bombardier Transportation announced that it signed a contract with CFL cargo for 10 TRAXX MS locomotives.
On 10 November 2020 RAILPOOL Branch Italia announced its official start of operations by signing an agreement to lease six new Class E494 Last Mile 3 kV DC TRAXXes to Captrain Italia, with an option for two more.
Railpool announced that after the finalisation of the approval for the Croatian corridor for the TRAXX AC3 Last Mile locomotive on 20 May 2020, the successful commercial operation has started on 19 July by Transagent Rail using 187 305.
On 4 September 2020 Bombardier Transportation and CARGOUNIT of Poland celebrated the handover of the first of three TRAXX MS locomotives in Gdańsk, at the siding of LOTOS Kolej.
On 2 July 2020, one of those two TRAXX MS3 locomotives from the ČD Cargo order, which recently started test operation, took its very first freight train. So far the machines only run light on the public network.
On 24 June 2020 388.201, the first TRAXX MS3 of a batch of 15 ordered by RegioJet, completed its first test run on the DB network near the Bombardier Kassel works.
On 12 June 2020, both first ČD Cargo TRAXX MS3 locomotives, which are present in the Czech Republic, moved from the VUZ Velim test centre to the Ústí nad Labem depot. Following all necessary paperwork being sorted out, the first run in the test regime took place on 23 June.
On 4 May, it was again possible to see the locomotives 388.001 and 002 at the VUZ test centre Velim.
Within the process to award the approval of the test service on the public network, locomotives 388.001 and 002 for ČD Cargo underwent another round of EMC measurements at the VUZ Velim test centre n 21 April 2020.