The Spanish company will supply 16 trains to the subway operator, which wants to replace in the next three years the IVA trains produced by Astra Vagoane Arad.
Metrorex general manager Gheorghe Udriste said in September the operator received bids from CAF and Canada’s Bombardier for the procurement of 16 new subway trains and the Spanish company won the auction.
The contract is financed by a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The CAF trains will be assembled in Romania, most likely in a facility in Bucharest, according to Udriste.
Metrorex also bought from Bombardier the equipment needed to operate CAF trains. The contract was awarded through direct negotiation and is worth EUR4.9 million, said Udriste.
Metrorex wants to buy eight more trains in the next two years for the existing subway mainlines and 21 trains for mainline 5 to link neighborhoods Drumul Taberei to Eroilor.