In Austria, a legal amendment has been proposed to increase the transport of waste by rail. Currently, 80 per cent of this waste is still transported by road, although the cargo type is very suitable...Read more
The Austria-based rail company transported 70,000 TEUs across the New Silk Road during the past year. Compared to 2019, it doubled its Eurasian volumes. Additionally, it reached an all-time high train number-over 700 hundred. By...Read more
The Austrian railway company ÖBB has launched the second expansion phase of Vienna South Terminal. The handling capacity will be increased by around 50 per cent, which corresponds to an increase of 105,000 ITE (intermodal...Read more
ÖBB’s Rail Cargo Group links Brno in the Czech Republic and Köseköy in Turkey with two critical moves. As of 5 May, it launches a new rail link between Brno and Budapest with a frequency...Read more
The route for the new German-Austrian railway line from the north to the Brenner Base Tunnel (currently in construction) has been decided. Of the five possible routes, the so-called ‘purple variant’, which consists of around...Read more
ŽOS Trnava, a Slovak rail cars and locomotives manufacturer, will undertake the development and building of 90 new freight wagons for ÖBB. The new wagons belong to the Faccns series of freight self-dumping 4-axle wagon,...Read more
The ÖBB will be climate-neutral in the mobility sector by 2030. That is what the Austrian railway company said on the occasion of the launch of the European Year of Rail on Monday. “By investing...Read more
Austrian operator ÖBB has given one of their locomotives a special European Year of Rail design. The locomotive was presented at a ceremony at Vienna central station last week, and will be on the tracks...Read more
ÖBB is investing 265 million euros in railway infrastructure in the Federal State of Upper Austria this year. The Austrian railway company is focussing on additional capacity, fit and safe rail routes and attractive train...Read more
From mid-December Lineas will take its Xpress trains from Antwerp to Austria with two new services. One connects the Belgian hub to Wolfurt, while another links Antwerp to Wels and Vienna. In total, 12 additional...Read more
Over the next six years, Austrain railway company ÖBB will invest almost three billion euros annually in the railway network on behalf of the federal government. Of the total 17.5 billion to be spent up...Read more
The recently formed joint venture named ETL Lokservice has started to work on the joint workshop for locomotives. It will be situated in Gramatneusied, near Vienna, at the intersection of international rail freight corridors. From...Read more
Rail Cargo Group has set up additional rail freight services to enable the shipment of salt from Austria to Hungary, Italy and Croatia. According to the ÖBB-subsidiary, the supply of this basic commodity is urgently...Read more
Rail Cargo Group has launched a new rail freight connection between the northern seaport of Hamburg and Enns in Austria. The service includes two roundtrips per week without stopover. According to the ÖBB subsidiary, the...Read more
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group has finished the preparation for the sectoral driving ban in Tyrol that will take effect on the 1st of January 2020. The rail freight operator is boosting its capacity of the...Read more
The Austrian Rail Cargo Group and German Kombiverkehr have partnered up to realise a three-weekly rail freight connection between Wels, Vienna and Budapest. The three cities in Germany, Austria and Hungary are main nodes in...Read more
The intermodal terminal in Duisburg is an important hub for all of Europe. The vast majority of the container trains from China to the EU run via Duisport. The Austrian freight operator Rail Cargo Group...Read more
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
