{"title":"Railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/346-railway-and-tramway-locomotives-and-rolling-stock","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"346","label":"Railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,845 supply contracts for railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts through award notices on TED; the 1,179 of them that state a value (63.9%) add up to €7.34 billion. EU countries together imported €13.2 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8607, 8603, 8606, 8601, 8604 and 3 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 8.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 1,233 companies have won 5,320 public supply contracts for railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts in 30 European countries, in 2,942 award notices from 361 public buyers.","10.9% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 16.1% of all awards across Europe.","55.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":5320,"awardNotices":2942,"winningCompanies":1233,"publicBuyers":361,"awardsWithValue":3500,"awardedValueEur":21281401850,"localAwards":4742,"foreignAwards":578,"top5Share":0.16071428571428573,"singleBidAwards":2744,"awardsWithKnownBids":4967,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":102,"awardNotices":60,"awardsWithValue":26,"awardedValueEur":67597399},{"year":2024,"awards":1533,"awardNotices":887,"awardsWithValue":899,"awardedValueEur":4162145971},{"year":2025,"awards":1845,"awardNotices":1078,"awardsWithValue":1179,"awardedValueEur":7339572053},{"year":2026,"awards":1840,"awardNotices":917,"awardsWithValue":1396,"awardedValueEur":9712086426}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8607","label":"Parts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8603","label":"Self-propelled railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks (excl. those of heading 8604)"},{"hs4":"8606","label":"Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons (excl. self-propelled and luggage vans and post office coaches)"},{"hs4":"8601","label":"Rail locomotives powered from an external source of electricity or by electric accumulators"},{"hs4":"8604","label":"Railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles, whether or not self-propelled, e.g., workshops, cranes, ballast tampers, trackliners, testing coaches and track inspection vehicles"},{"hs4":"8602","label":"Rail locomotives (excl. those powered from an external source of electricity or by accumulators)"},{"hs4":"8605","label":"Railway or tramway passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches (excl. self-propelled railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks, railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles and goods vans and wagons)"},{"hs4":"8608","label":"Railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings (excl. sleepers of wood, concrete or steel, sections of track and other track fixtures not yet assembled and railway or tramway track construction material)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":12182413057},{"year":2024,"valueEur":11824819529},{"year":2025,"valueEur":13214587561}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/346-railway-and-tramway-locomotives-and-rolling-stock, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}