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Operail Leasing sold 807 leased cars. The successful companies in the auction were ATASU Group from Kazakhstan and Skinest Rail from Estonia, to whom the leased cars were sold for a total of EUR 22.1 million.
The rental area of the La Llagosta terminal is more than 105,000 m2 and will be leased for a minimum of 16.6 million euros.
The wagon keeper ERMEWA SA, the workshop and wagon builder INVEHO and the French Research Institute for Railway Technology IRT RAILENIUM have set up their joint research and innovation project Maintenance 4.0 (M4.0). With the M4.0 project, these rail freight companies have set themselves the goal of promoting condition-based and predictive maintenance.
EU data show that Russia is at the center of a rail freight route that supplies Western arms manufacturers with a steady supply of the metals needed to produce the microchips, electronics, and ammunition used in modern weaponry.
In 2022, PKP LHS Company carried 11.108 million tonnes. According to the company, it happened despite the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, the closure of the borders with Russia and Belarus, and the Black Sea ports.
Among other things, the new CEO Michal Brijar wants to focus on the rail business.
The new company’s operating business has been entrusted to Violeta Vlasoviene, Managing Director of VTG Rail Logistics Baltics.
Operational cargo turnover in 2022 amounted to 252 billion ton-kilometers, which is 5.3% more than in 2021.
Bernd Decker retires, and Mathias Leiner is the new CEO of ERS Railways GmbH, a Hupac Group branch for maritime inland transportation.
Last year, ČD Cargo's market share reached 58.43 %.
Geopolitical tensions, the energy crisis, and ongoing disruptions in supply chains put sustained pressure on the container segment. This affected the throughput of this port, which was down 0.7% year-on-year to 286.9 million tons of cargo.
LDZ CARGO has received the European single safety certificate for transport in Estonia. The service is dedicated to transporting cooking oils for a US customer.
The Estonian state-owned railway company Operail has signed the contract of sale of its subsidiary Operail Finland, which provides freight transport services in Finland. The sales price is 27.7 million euros as a result of the sales process competition.
Siemens Mobility to deliver 1,200 electric locomotives and provide 35 years of full-service maintenance.
With this change, CEVA Logistics announced the creation of a dedicated Finished Vehicle Logistics (FVL) organization as part of its integration of GEFCO. The move comes following the purchase of the French automotive logistics specialist in July 2022 by the CMA CGM Group.
ÖBB is looking for 3,000 new employees this year, with a total of 15,000 jobs to be offered on the Austrian labour market over the next five years.
The shipping industry will face inflation, the implications of the war on Ukraine, the impact of COVID-19 in China, and worker strikes in 2023.
This subsidiary means faster TransFER connections to Greece and Turkey and connection of Serbian business to the international Rail Cargo Group network.
Modernizing infrastructure, introducing ETCS and Digital Automatic Coupling, and counteracting the shortage of skilled workers – Malte Lawrenz focused on these three fields of action at the opening of the 13th VPI Symposium.
RegioJet, Central Europe's largest private passenger rail operator, was awarded a single safety certificate for passenger rail operations in Germany in December 2022.