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Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras on Tuesday signed a contract for the purchase of 100 compressed natural gas (CNG) articulated buses.

The deal was inked with the head of Iveco Bus' Europe Commercial Operations, Giorgio Zino. 

The 18-meter buses will be added to the Athens public transport fleet. 

The long-suffering tender for the supply of new buses to renew the aging fleet of the transport companies of Athens and Thessaloniki (OASA and OASTH) is moving forward.

Leading Turkish bus manufacturer Otokar Otomotiv has signed a five-year agreement with Italy's Iveco Bus to produce 5,000 buses at its facilities in Turkey's northwestern Sakarya province.

Chinese electric bus manufacturer Alfa Bus is eyeing the Bulgarian market for a plant to assemble electric buses and produce their batteries in the EU, Bulgaria's economy ministry was quoted as saying.