Austria: The company has received a certificate from Turkish certification body DeTIM confirming that its BaseFrame40 prototype frame meets International Union of Railways (UIC) requirements. Work on the technology has been under way for several years.
A wagon fitted with the frames and designed to carry two 20 ft containers has completed a series of trials in Slovakia, which confirmed a payload of 20 t per frame. The wagon was also run on main lines and private sidings, including shunting humps. According to BOXmover, the trials produced no container displacement, no failures of the locking mechanism and no visible damage.
Prototype of BaseFrame40 and visualisation of a wagon fitted with rotating frames. Source: BOXmover
The rotating frames are intended for fitting to container flat wagons, particularly for carrying roll-on/roll-off containers used for household and construction waste. The rotating device is mounted on the wagon underframe to speed up transfers of these containers between road and rail vehicles, and is expected to make forklifts and cranes unnecessary for the operation.
BOXmover develops equipment for intermodal freight transport. With Swiss lessor Wascosa it is also involved in the production of FFS 2.0 swap body wagons. A similar rotating frame technology is under development in Europe at another lessor, GATX.
