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On 13 March 2023, ERA issued approval for EURO9000 locomotives. It is valid for operation in Germany, and a week later approval for operation in Austria was issued, in the standard form of an Extended Area of Use (XAU).

On 17 January 2023 Stadler and Havelländische Eisenbahn (HVLE) signed a contract for the delivery of three additional EURODUAL locomotives.

Shortly before Christmas, European Loc Pool placed a firm order for a further 10 EURODUAL locomotives, breaking the hundred-unit threshold.

On 29 April 2022, Stadler announced that it has signed an agreement with Beacon Rail and GB Railfreight for the supply of 30 Class 99 locomotives including spare parts. 

At the beginning of March 2022, European Loc Pool announced that before end of 2021 it had concluded a contract with DB Cargo for the full-service leasing of six EURODUAL locomotives.

On 1 November 2021, the EURODUAL locomotive received approval for operation on the lines of profile 312 on the ÖBB network.

The Norwegian private railfreight operator Onrail has entered in a long-term full-service lease agreement for lease of two EURODUAL locomotives with European Loc Pool, to be delivered at the end of 2022.

CargoNet and European Loc Pool (ELP) have signed a long-term full-service lease agreement for two EURODUAL locomotives.

In July 2019, Stadler and Körfez Ulaştırma, the first private rail freight operator in Turkey and wholly owned subsidiary of Turkey’s largest refinery Tüpraş, signed a contract for the supply of seven EURODUAL locomotives.

In recent weeks, CAPTRAIN France has taken over the entire fleet of Type EURO4001 locomotives.

Following final approval being granted for the type both in Sweden and Norway in the course of October, Green Cargo put both the EURODUALs, which it has on lease from European Loc Pool (ELP), in service.

On 12 October 2020 VTG Rail Logistics Deutschland and European Loc Pool have announced signature of a long-term full-service leasing contract for up to four EURODUAL locomotives.

One of the ELP EURODUALs, 159 207, started on 19 May test program in Austria. The reason is to undergo measurements of impact to the infrastructure, with the goal to achieve the approval for operation in this country. These tests are planned to last for about three weeks.

Following HVLE and ITL, three other German operators incorporated EURODUALs in their fleets in recent days.

As we already reported, on 17 February 2020 HVLE started test operation of its EURODUALs. More locomotives were dispatched to another two German operators.