Efforts to increase exports from Ukraine are led by rail operators like Austrian logistics specialist ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG), which announced it will step up grain transport from the war-torn country.Read more
The Austrian railway company ÖBB has officially withdrawn from the joint venture responsible for the broad gauge extension from Kosice to Vienna. It has offered its shares for sale to its Russian, Ukrainian and Slovakian...Read more
ÖBB’s effort to maintain the humanitarian corridor between Austria-Ukraine flowing continues. This time the Austria based company organised and dispatched a train full of hygiene products-namely toilet paper to help those displaced by war.Read more
A delegation of Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) met ÖBB’s Chairman and CEO Andreas Mattä on Tuesday, 10 May and signed an MoU to highlight the role of multimodal transport in strengthening economic ties between the two...Read more
The Slovakian railway wagon repair workshop ŽOS Trnava sealed two new deals worth tens of millions with companies ÖBB and DB Cargo. The company won the tenders for the two contracts that concern the repair...Read more
The first train containing exported grains from Ukraine travelled directly to Austria, arriving on 6 May. ÖBB Rail Cargo Group, responsible for the service, has already been transporting grain between Ukraine and the EU since...Read more
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
More and more freight trains are up and running to transport export products from Ukraine to the rest of Europe. Rail is considered to be the most attractive solution to replace sea shipping, which is...Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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