SIMENS Mobility Serbia is delivering the first tram for the city of Nuremberg, completely manufactured in the Kragujevac factory, it was announced today from that company.
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As they say, it is the first of a total of 12 trams that will be built in Serbia for the needs of that German city.
Along with the G1 metro trains also supplied by Siemens Mobility, Avenio trams manufactured in Šumadija will also be an essential part of the modernization of public transport in which Nuremberg is actively investing.
The announcement states that the assembly of that contingent of trams started in the summer of 2021, and the production is in progress.
Avenio trams are based on a modular approach of proven systems and components that allow adaptation to customer needs, which for Avenio Nuremberg means – vehicle length of 36.9 meters, vehicle width of 2.30 meters, maximum speed of 70 kilometers per hour and accommodation capacity 218 passengers.
The factory in Kragujevac started with the production of components for Siemens Mobility vehicles in the summer of 2018, and in 2020 it took over the final assembly and commissioning of complete rail vehicles, ie. Avenio tram models for selected projects.
Nuremberg is the third city in Europe whose Avenio trams are delivered by the Kragujevac factory.
Siemens currently employs more than 850 people in Serbia.
The factory also has an engineering center that attracts top local engineering talent, making an important contribution to Siemens Mobility’s production and engineering footprint in Europe, the company said in a statement.
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