Ansaldo STS has recently been awarded a contract by the Danish Ministry of Transport and the Municipalies of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg to supply the the city’s new metro line, called Cityringen, with new trains.
The option to provide rolling stock was featured in the initial contract and is worth a total of €122 million.
The company won the contract to construct the metro network in January this year, worth a total of €700m.
Ansaldo STS will assign the construction of the high-tech trainsets to AnsaldoBreda, also a Finmeccanica company.
The new line, which will run entirely underground, will be a fully automated metro with a driverless system that has undergone further developments since the version used previously in Denmark, and will extend for 16 km through the centre of Copenhagen, connecting 17 stations.
The operation of this line is scheduled for 2018.
