Orders piling up at Vossloh Locomotives
Order books at Kiel-based Vossloh Locomotives GmbH are overflowing. Instead of the originally budgeted 122 locomotives, at least 140 are likely to be built by year-end. This, in turn, will inflate sales to around ?220 million rather than the expected ?200 million, a fact pointed out by the Company during the handover of the first 13 switchers destined for the Dutch state railway. Moreover, the prospect that by the end of 2005, orders for some 1,200 locomotives will have been placed throughout Europe is a good reason for this Vossloh company not to have any workload worries in the latter half of this decade.Europe's biggest diesel locomotive builder also announced that Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB), which as from December 2005 will be running a railbound passenger transit service between Hamburg and Westerland, intends to have its railcars pulled by new Vossloh locomotives, specifically a large new diesel to be developed with an output of around 3,000 kW. In the first
phase, 15 of altogether around 40 of the new engines will be delivered to NOB.
Kiel/Werdohl, June 27, 2003
For more information contact:
Werner Andree, Vossloh AG, phone (+49-2392) 52407