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During June, European Loc Pool handed over the first three EURO9000 locomotives for lease.

ELP successfully tested, commissioned and then handed over the first two EURO9000 locomotives to its customers.

In the coming weeks, one of the EURODUALs will make test runs in several Balkan countries as part of the type approval process there.

The first EURO9000 is due to hit the track soon, as ELP expects to deliver the first three locomotives.

Just in May 2023, five years have passed since the founding of European Loc Pool.

Following the order secured last year to build and supply as many as 30 Class 99 bi-mode Co’Co locomotives, Stadler has signed on 13 April 2023 a contract with GB Railfreight to provide full service for this rolling stock. 

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.