Scania AB has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Transport of the Ivory Coast and SOTRA, the transportation company for the city of  Abidjan, to deliver 450 buses.

The New York operator, MTA has awarded Volvo Buses’ Canadian subsidiary, Prévost Car of Sainte-Claire, two contracts for up to 330, X3-45 commuter coaches, with a firm order of 307 vehicles to be delivered between 2020 and 2022, and options for 23 additional coaches.

Atomic City Transit has ordered two Proterra Inc, Catalyst 35-foot E2 buses and two Proterra 125 kW plug-in charging systems.

Electric bus manufacturer, BYD Company is celebrating two record orders from the American continent.

IndoStar Capital Finance Limited, a non-banking finance company, is now focussing more on retail business specifically for the commercial vehicle sector following its purchase of IIFL.

Tata Motors Ltd has been awarded a contract to supply 300 electric buses by Ahmedabad Janmarg Ltd, a subsidiary of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which has responsibility for operating the BRTS buses.

Alexander Dennis Ltd is to supply six electric buses to Fullers360, a subsidiary of Weiheke Bus Company, commencing the conversion of bus services on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island to a zero emission operation. 

Daimler Buses is to supply the Romanian capital of Bucharest with 130 Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid buses with deliveries starting in May 2020.

DHL International (UK) Ltd, a logistics and supply chain specialist and part of the DHL Group, has marked a new strategic partnership with Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland Ltd, by taking delivery of the first 200 of 700 new Volvo vehicles, including 550 identical FH 6x2 tractor units.

New Flyer of America Inc has announced an order from the Connecticut Department of Transportation for 50, forty-foot heavy-duty Xcelsior clean-diesel buses.

Electric bus builder, Ebusco is to supply 60 Ebusco 2.2 12m vehicles to bus operator, Qbuzz for operation in Groningen and Drenthe by the end of 2019.

Teojama Comercial S.A., the main distributor of the Hino truck and bus brand in Ecuador, has delivered a new bus fleet of 53 Hino AK 8JRSA buses to Ecuadorian public transport cooperatives, Tomebamba and Turismo Baños, in the city of Cuenca.