(09/02/2021) 

At the end of their respective extraordinary meetings of their board of directors, the RATP and SNCF Voyageurs, together with Île-de-France-Mobilités, took the decision to award the contract to renew the trains on the RER B line to the CAF-Bombardier consortium for a total amount of EUR 2.56 billion, financed by Île-de-France-Mobilités.

The contract, which will be signed after a statutory period of 11 days, involves the purchase of 146 MI20 trains. This is the first project in which CAF units will be supplied for the RER network in the Paris metropolitan area.