State auditors call DSB’s IC5 purchase “very unsatisfactory”

The first IC5 at a platform in Padborg. Parliament was not told why 50 more were ordered before the first was delivered. Photo: Jens Hasse, DSB.

DENMARK: DSB’s purchase of IC5 trains from Alstom is “very unsatisfactory”, the state auditors said. The trains are about three years late, and the delay has cost the operator about DKK 1.4bn in extra spending and DKK 2.2bn in savings it has not realised.