Rail innovation: ÖBB pours billions into sustainable investments
Austrian railway company ÖBB will commit a budget of 1 billion euros until 2030 for renewable wind, solar and water traction energy. The massive investment will take place all while ÖBB produces spare train parts...Read more
Rail Cargo Group launches train to Spain and increases Benelux links
April is a pretty productive month for Austria based Rail Cargo Group. With a new link in the pipeline between Barcelona in Spain and St. Valentin/Schwertberg, Austria, and increased weekly connections between Linz, Austria and...Read more
Route section to Brenner Base Tunnel gets into planning phase
Deutsche Bahn has awarded a contract to the engineering joint venture ARGE to plan the Innleiten-Kirnstein railway line. The section is part of the German-Austrian railway route connecting from the north to the Brenner base...Read more
Switzerland next stop for DAC test train
After an extensive test program at five Austrian stations from the beginning of February to the beginning of March 2022, a freight train with Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) will be tested in Switzerland now. The...Read more
Russia and Hungary want joint railway company this Spring
The joint railway venture consisting of Russia, Hungary and Austria will be established this Spring. The foreign minister of Hungary met recently with the CEO of Russian Railways and discussed, among other things, the details...Read moreWhat did the DAC4EU train do in Austria?
In late January, a freight train equipped with the Digital Automatic Coupling technology started a test trip from Berlin to cross Europe and assess the technology. In February, it spent some days in Austria, testing...Read more
New connection to three-border region Switzerland-Germany-France
ÖBB’s subsidiary Rail Cargo Group has launched a new railway service between Austria and Switzerland. Three times per week a blocktrain shuttles between the Swiss terminal Frenkendorf, near the border with Germany and France and...Read more
Russia sides with Hungary in building Budapest Bypass
Russia is considering to help finance the construction of railway line V0, the Hungarian bypass to Budapest that will connect the border with Ukraine to the border with Austria. It is one of the first...Read moreRail freight could lose competitiveness and shrink due to rising costs
Freight transport by rail has so far been cheaper than transport by truck in most cases, but rising costs threaten to wipe out this advantage. This is according to a study by rail freight corridor...Read more
European test run with Digital Automatic Coupling begins
In Berlin, a freight train equipped with a Digital Automatic Coupler has started a practical test run across Europe, lasting several months. German Federal Minister for Transport Volker Wissing gave the symbolic starting signal for...Read more
RCG’s Austria-Germany train makes detour to Scandinavia
ÖBB’s subsidiary Rail Cargo Group has launched a new wagonload connection between Austria and Sweden. As part of the existing TransFER Linz-Duisburg-Wels, a train now also departs towards Malmö twice a week since the beginning...Read more
Rotterdam-Wolfurt route achieves best performance yet
The TransFER route connecting the port of Rotterdam and Wolfurt in Austria reached a volume record in 2021. With more than 18,500 TEUs transported, Rail Cargo Group’s service saw a 170 per cent growth since...Read more
‘Austrian rail sector, be more attractive for potential staff’
The Austrian railway company ÖBB has sat around the table with the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), one of the largest nature and environmental protection organisations in the world, and they agreed about three...Read more
Growth momentum for RCG’s ROLA operations
Rail Cargo Group is experiencing substantial growth in the sector of Rolling Road (ROLA) transport. The Austrian company exceeded by the end of October 2021 the transported volumes of 2019 and 2020. Connections on the...Read moreRCG’s Wolfurt-Rotterdam route brakes record and expands
Rail Cargo Group’s connection between Wolfurt, Austria, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, celebrates its fifth anniversary, accompanied by substantial growth and an upcoming expansion. 2021 seems to be when the route reaches a record of transported...Read moreAlcohol and cars on the train between Italy and Russia
ÖBB’s Rail Cargo Group, together with its Russian logistics partner the Novik Group, launches a new weekly connection between Italy and Russia. The two-way service connects Milan with the Russian cities of Chernyakhovsk in Kaliningrad...Read more
Metals welcome onboard a new train to port of Trieste
Rail Cargo Group is expanding its network for conventional wagonloads with a new connection between Villach (Villach South Terminal) and Trieste (Piattaforma Logistica di Trieste). This connection is particularly suitable for the transport of wood,...Read more
Career move: Harald Jony new CEO of Cargoe Austria
Harald Jony, who previously managed the Viennese terminal Wiencont, takes over the sole management of Cargoe GmbH & Co. KG, based in Austria. This company specialises in value-added and wholesale logistics. He succeeds Jan Grubert...Read more
‘Digitalisation and innovation can help in achieving climate goals’
Rail freight transport in the fight against climate change. This was the focus of Rail Cargo Group’s annual press conference. According to the Austrian company, digitalisation and innovation can help in achieving the climate goals.Read more