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    Belarusian Railways interest survey on new container train service from Poland to CIS and China

Belarusian Railways interest survey on new container train service from Poland to CIS and China

Belarusian Railways has in plan a new container train service from the port of Gdansk (Poland) to the container terminal Kolyadichi (Belarus), as well as from the port of Gdansk via Belarus to CIS countries and China. In order to find out transporter’s interest in the project, as well as to improve

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    Belarusian Railways to provide maintenance services for United Wagon Company’s Barber freight cars 

Belarusian Railways to provide maintenance services for United Wagon Company’s Barber freight cars 

Belarusian Railways and Russian United Wagon Company (UWC) have announced signing  a strategic partnership to service freight cars equipped with Barber bogies in Belarus. As part of this partnership, service facilities for freight cars with improved technical and economic characteristics equipped with Barber bogies have been established at all of Belarusian

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    PKP Cargo reports solid financial results for 2014

PKP Cargo reports solid financial results for 2014

In 2014, PKP CARGO Group reached 57% of share in rail freight market in terms of transport performance and more than 48% in terms of freight volume.  In terms of freight volume, share of PKP CARGO Group increased cumulatively for seven months in a row, from June to December, whereas

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    Uralvagonzavod to supply 2900 freight wagons to Azerbaijan Railways

Uralvagonzavod to supply 2900 freight wagons to Azerbaijan Railways

Russian rolling stock manufacturer UralVagonZavod Research and Production Corporation and Azerbaijan Railways (Azərbaycan Dəmir Yolları QSC) signed a contract for the supply of  2,900 freight wagons. The freight wagons to be delivered are universal gondolas, grain cars, tanks for transportation of oil and oil products, hopper cars for cement and other types. According

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    New privatisation deadline for Romania’s state-owned rail freight operator

New privatisation deadline for Romania’s state-owned rail freight operator

The privatization process of the Romanian state-owned rail freight operator CFR Marfa will be completed in 2016, following the agreement signed with the International Monetary Fund, stated by Ioan Rus, Minister of Transport. Present at the inauguration of Deutsche Bahn Accounting Center for Europe in Bucharest, Rudiger Grube, CEO of Deutsche Bahn, stated that

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    PKP CARGO and HZ Cargo sign cooperation agreement

PKP CARGO and HZ Cargo sign cooperation agreement

PKP CARGO and HZ Cargo, the Croatian national rail freight operator,  have signed a strategic cooperation agreement on providing services to their current customers, shipping the freight within the Baltic – Adriatic Corridor and establish joint logistics offer for the prospects. Cooperation with the Croatian partner provides PKP CARGO with access to intensively

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    Cargo Wagon, company founded in order to acquire the Slovak State Rail Freight Operator’s fleet launched

Cargo Wagon, company founded in order to acquire the Slovak State Rail Freight Operator’s fleet launched

VTG Aktiengesellschaft,  ZSSK CARGO and another investor are participating in the launch of Cargo Wagon a.s., a company founded in order to acquire the Slovak State Rail Freight Operator’s fleet. ZSSK CARGO will retain 34 percent of the shares, while VTG and the group of investors will each acquire 33

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    US rail group Genesee & Wyoming acquires UK Freightliner

US rail group Genesee & Wyoming acquires UK Freightliner

US rail group Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) has entered into an agreement to acquire UK and European rail freight operator Freightliner Group from Arcapita, which has been its majority shareholder since 2008. The change of ownership will not have any impact on the day to day operations of the Group

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    TransContainer to dispose of interest in Kazakh JSC Kedentransservice

TransContainer to dispose of interest in Kazakh JSC Kedentransservice

JSC TransContainer has announced that on 18 February 201 that  its Board of Directors approved in principle the disposal of the company’s entire 50% equity stake in Logistic System Management B.V. to JSC National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ). Logistic System Management B.V. controls 100% of the share capital of

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    VIKING train registers 2.7% increase in transported containers

VIKING train registers 2.7% increase in transported containers

VIKING train transported 44,100 containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2014, an increase of 2.7% compared to previous year. The railway administrations of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Turkey’s BALO (Great Anatolia Logistics Organization) are involved in the intermodal train VIKING project. According to Belarusian Railways, the partners are closely collaborating

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Locomotives market in Poland

Most locos travelling on Polish tracks are still â on 10 Mar 2015
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Safety in EU rail transport has steadily enhanced over the years: in 2013, the decline in number of accidents compared with 2012 could be established at 1.9 % on 26 Jan 2015
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TCDD key statistics 2011- 2013 Data Vizualisation

Turkish State Railways (TCDD) posted a loss of TL 1.28 billion (EUR 461 million) in 2013, the largest loss of all the State Economic Enterprises (KIT). on 26 Jan 2015
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