Rail Cargo Group strengthens multisystem fleet
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has called on an option from the 2017 deal for supplying 61 Vectron multisystem locomotives. The vehicles will be operated by Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the rail freight division of ÖBB....Read more
New order for Smartron freight locomotives
Siemens Mobility has received a new order for 25 Smartron electric locomotives specially developed in accordance with the requirements of the German rail freight market. The deal was concluded with Paribus Holding, a Hamburg-based investment...Read more
Vectron Dual Mode locomotive completed
Siemens Mobility has accomplished the manufacture of the first Vectron Dual Mode locomotive. The vehicle will be capable to use both electric energy and diesel fuel. The Dual Mode locomotive was designed and developed primarily...Read more
Slovenske železnice to purchase 400 freight wagons
SŽ-Tovorni promet, the freight subsidiary of the Slovenian railway company Slovenske železnice, plans to upgrade its fleet. The rail operator will acquire 20 new electric locomotives and 400 freight wagons by 2025. The company also...Read more
Operail leases shunting locomotives to Ukraine
Estonian rail freight operator Operail (former EVR Cargo) will lease two C30-M shunting locomotives to Ukrainian freight forwarding company Lemtrans, part of the industrial holding SCM. The locomotives were upgraded at the operator’s workshop in...Read more
PKP Cargo to increase multisystem fleet on Three Seas Corridor
Polish largest rail freight operator PKP Cargo has ordered five Vectron multisystem locomotives. The deal with Siemens Mobility signed on 28 January is worth around 26 million Euros. PKP Cargo will receive the first new locomotives in the...Read more
Polish rail freight operators get more home-produced locomotives
Polish private rail freight operators STK and CTL Logistics have entered into service five brand new Dragon 2 locomotives designed and produced by Polish rolling stock manufacturer Newag. The carriers have become the users of...Read more
New US-made locomotive delivered first freight in Ukraine
Ukrainian Railways has entered into service the first US-made TE33A Trident freight diesel locomotive. The railway company has already received eight units of this type and expects the delivery of another twelve units by the...Read more
Ukrainian Railways tests new US-made freight locomotive
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) is testing a brand new TE33A Trident freight diesel locomotive, produced by GE Transportation in Erie, Pennsylvania. The trial is carried out on the Kremenchuk-Romodan railway line. Ukrainian Railway is expected to...Read more
Bombardier to deliver 33 Traxx locomotives to Akiem
Worldwide rolling stock manufacturer Bombardier Transportation will deliver 33 Traxx locomotives to European leasing company Akiem between 2019 and 2021. The 112-million Euros order includes three types: Traxx MS 2 (multi-system), Traxx AC 3 (alternating...Read more
General Electric to supply 12 diesel locomotives to Moldova
Moldovan national rail company Calea Ferată din Moldova (CFM) has signed a 45-million Euros agreement with GE Transportation for the supply of twelve diesel locomotives. The units will mostly be used for freight operations. The...Read more
PKP Cargo purchases brand new Polish-made locomotives
PKP Cargo, EU’s second largest railway freight carrier, will upgrade its fleet with three brand new locomotives Dragon 2. All of them were designed and produced by Newag, a Polish rolling stock manufacturer. PKP Cargo has...Read more
Rail freight not as clean and sustainable as expected
In certain ways, rail freight seems to be less clean and sustainable as assumed. Diesel as well as electric locomotives emit much higher CO2 levels than expected. This was concluded in a research of the...Read more
Moroccan ONCF buys Alstom’s locomotives
The national Moroccan rail company ONCF has acquired 30 electrical locomotives and its spares, to the French manufacturer Alstom for 1.4 billion Moroccan Dirhams (123 million Euros) in January 2018. This operation has been funded...Read more
Portugal to renew railway fleet after 20 years
The Portuguese railway company Comboios de Portugal (CP) is planning to upgrade its fleet. A tender is currently under preparation, according to sources within CP. The last CP tender for railway equipment was published twenty...Read more
Railpool to increase Traxx fleet to 189 locomotives
Rolling stock leasing company Railpool is increasing its Traxx fleet with the ordering of twenty new Traxx MS locomotives from Bombardier. The fleet will count 189 units once the new locomotives have been delivered. The...Read more
Latvian Railways secures 22.8 million Euros loan for fleet upgrade
Latvian Railways (LZD) has secured a twelve-year loan agreement with the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB), valuing 22.8 million Euros. The state-owned rail company will use the loan to fund the modernisation of fourteen of its...Read more
New locomotives boost rail freight capacity in Spanish Cantabria
Rail freight traffic between the Spanish Port of Santander and the station of Mataporquera has increased by 12 per cent since the use of locomotive model 251 on this line. Trains departing from the Spanish...Read more