USA: The CO2Rail startup is working with several universities to develop a technology to capture CO2 from the air, which is planned to be applied to a tank car refurbished for this purpose.
1 September 2022
USA: The CO2Rail startup is working with several universities to develop a technology to capture CO2 from the air, which is planned to be applied to a tank car refurbished for this purpose.
Austria: The project has been implemented by the freight operator since 2019 together with the A1 mobile operator and is aimed at equipping up to 12,000 freight cars with SmartCargo telematics devices.
India: Over the next three years, the company intends to increase the annual production of freight cars at its Titagarh plant from 8,000 to 12,000 units, as well as to build facilities to produce metro trains.
Russia: The launch of production is scheduled for 2023. The declared amount of investments is 1.3 bln RUR ($20.5 mln USD) and it is planned to receive the state support from the Industrial Development Fund.
Aluminum is already strongly associated with rail freight transportation rolling stock in many countries. Russia joined the trend a few years ago.
Russia: The national railway company published its 2021 annual report. ROLLINGSTOCK has analyzed and compared it with the figures of 2020.
EU: A train with two selected coupling technologies from Dellner and Voith is now running in trial mode across Europe. It is planned to be shown at the InnoTrans exhibition in Berlin in September.
Poland: The Association of Polish Engineers and Technicians (SITK) in early June presented a scale model of the Mark II piggyback system, which should speed up the process of semi-trailers transportation via rail.
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan: The Kyrgyz temir jolu operator unveiled a modernized passenger coach. At the same time, Uzbek Orient Metal presented the first container flatcar of its own production.