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On 12 January 2021, Alstom’s Citadis X05 trams have entered passenger service on the South Circular Light Rail line of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan.
Following an extensive modernisation, VAG Nürnberg has put the first four-car Type GT8N tram back into service on 22 December 2020.
On 16 December 2020, Bombardier Transportation signed a new framework agreement with BVG for delivery of up to 117 FLEXITY trams and their spare parts.
On 11 December 2020, Bombardier Transportation and VBZ have signed a contract for 40 additional Flexity trams.
On 9 December 2020, the first bodyshell of the first of 30 Flexity trams for Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe was accepted by the operator at the Bombardier Görlitz works.
On 2 December 2020, the building of a batch 12 Avenio trams for Nürnberg started.
On 2 December 2020, MPK Kraków has started tests of the Lajkonik tram RY825 in a catenary-free mode in regular passenger service.
In October 2020, Škoda-built ForCity Classic trams in the Turkish city of Eskişehir achieved 2 million kilometers over two years of operation.
In February 2019, Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB) awarded Voith a contract to modernise and renew the traction inverters of 50 Type S-DT 8.10 and S-DT 8.11 light rail vehicles.
On 25 November 2020, Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe has signed a contract with the Alstom/Kiepe Electric consortium for the supply of 64 Citadis low-floor trams.
On 15 October 2020, Keolis’ Chinese joint venture Shanghai Keolis was awarded a new five-year contract by the public transport authority of Jiaxing,forming a new joint venture called Shenjia (51 % Jiaxing Rail Co. and 49 % Shanghai Keolis) with the authority to operate and maintain the city’s new tram network.
On 4 November 2020 an agreement was signed with Stadler, which will allow MPK Kraków to take the option to purchase additional 25 Lajkonik trams.
On 12 September 2020, a second ForCity Smart Artic tram arrived from Škoda Transtech in Tampere, marking a major milestone towards the start of passenger service.
On 13 October 2020 Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn and Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft have jointly ordered 109 Avenio HF (high-floor) two-car Stadtbahn trams from Siemens Mobility, including an option for 48 ones.
On 1 October 2020 Siemens announced that Valley Metro has ordered 14 Type S700 trams from Siemens Mobility.