Both Unibuss and Nobina received contracts with Ruter in 2022 and were to operate the routes with a total of 137 electric buses.
Of these buses, Nobina was to be responsible for 76, which were to be delivered from Dutch Ebusco. They should have been delivered and put into traffic in December last year, but Nobina has still not received a single bus, writes Technical Weekly (TU).
– We have vacuumed the market for buses, borrowed from other tenders in Nobina and purchased capacity – all to maintain public transport in a situation with enormous delivery problems on the global bus market, writes Nobina Norway manager Karine Nordseth in an email to TU.
The bus manufacturer Ebusco is in financial trouble, and production has almost stopped. As of October 24, the company states that they have outstanding debts of approximately 33 million euros that have not been paid by the deadline.
Nordseth states that they are in contact with several bus manufacturers about various solutions, but that they have not entered into a contract with other manufacturers.
Ruter’s spokesperson Øystein Dahl Johansen says the situation is regrettable.
– The around 100 buses that are currently used to run the service are a mixture of diesel buses, gas buses and electric buses, says Johansen.
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