Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the rail subsidiary for Austrian national rail operator ÖBB, has announced that it is launching two new rail connections between Italy and Germany. Alongside the two new connections, it is increasing...Read more
The Austrian national rail freight operator Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is implementing a new TransFER connection between Linz, Duisburg and Rotterdam. The new link can be seen as an extension of the Linz-Wels-Duisburg RCG connection.Read more
The Austrian national rail freight company Rail Cargo Group (RCG) started the upgrade of the rail terminal in Wels, roughly 30 kilometres southwest of Linz. The four loading tracks will be extended from 580 to...Read more
The Swiss Federal Office of Transport issued the type-approval for automated brake tests for SBB Cargo trains. In-service tests will be held at selected locations over the next three months, with a large-scale rollout planned...Read more
The Austrian national rail freight company Rail Cargo Group (RCG) partnered up with Swiss rail rolling stock leasing company MFD Rail. The agreement includes up to 600 multimodal container carrier wagons designed with RCG’s MOBILER...Read more
Austrian brewery Brau Union Österreich and Dutch food retail chain SPAR are collaborating with Rail Cargo Group (RCG) to transport their products on the railway rather than on the road. The rail leg of this...Read more
Intermodal railway connections between Ukraine and Austria might soon become a reality. Ukrainian Railways (UZ) and Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the freight subsidiary of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), pledged to develop a route running...Read more
Seven of the largest rail freight companies in Europe are jointly asking German infrastructure manager DB Netz to review their cancellation fee that will be applied in 2024. The companies are Rail Cargo Group, SBB...Read more
NEWS FROM MUNICHRail Cargo Group is launching a new connection between Vienna and Kyiv. This is the first connection between Ukraine and the Austrian company’s network in Central Europe. This was revealed at the Transport Logistic fair...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has completed the first practical test of the so-called digital freight train. This test train was equipped with various prototypes of digital automatic couplers (DAC). The trial convoy ran throughout Europe for...Read more
Two new rail freight services connecting Italy and Austria have been launched by ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG). The service, as the company claimed, provides end-to-end logistics solutions, including first and last-mile deliveries.Read more
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is launching a new rail freight connection between Budapest, Hungary, and Rijeka, Croatia. This new service is expected to benefit cargo flows in both directions. Moreover, it also opens up...Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the freight arm of the Austrian Federal Railways (OBB), will expand with a new branch and a new carrier in Serbia and China in 2023. The announcements were made at the...Read more
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group is getting back to the rail freight connections game stronger. The Austria-based company added a new end-to-end service in its TransFER network linking Melnik in the Czech Republic with Wilhelmshaven in...Read more
Rail Cargo Group and A1 have reached the milestone of equipping 11,000 freight wagons with SmartCargo devices. SmartCargo technology allows for position detection, shock detection, and more efficient maintenance.Read more
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
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
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
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
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