The Norwegian transport group VY has awarded a nine-year contract to EuroMaint — a Swedish subsidiary of the CAF Group — to maintain the trains operating on the Bergen Railway.
EuroMaint is the market leader in railway maintenance services and components in Sweden; it will undertake most of the work relating to this contract in Bergen, where a new maintenance workshop is currently being built.
The Bergen Railway connects Bergen with Oslo.
It is the highest railway in Northern Europe, and VY was awarded the contract to manage it last December.
The VY Group is owned by the Norwegian Government; it operates most of the passenger train services in Norway, plus a significant number of bus services.
The acquisition of EuroMaint in 2019 reinforced CAF Group’s growing ‘service provision’ business, and this new contract will further consolidate the group’s foothold in the Nordic market, where it has implemented a number of projects in recent years.
Meanwhile, HKL — the company responsible for operating Helsinki’s public-transport system — has chosen CAF (
www.caf.net) to supply five new M300-series metro units; these will complement the 20 trains that CAF previously supplied to the Finnish capital Metro system.
The new four-carriage units wil increase the Helsinki Metro fleet from 45 trains to 50.