Aluminum is already strongly associated with rail freight transportation rolling stock in many countries. Russia joined the trend a few years ago.
16 July 2022
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.
Russia: The railcar builder signed two agreements worth more than 20 bln RUR ($350 mln USD) during the SPIEF.
USA, Germany: Knorr-Bremse entered the transport telematics market, announcing the equipment of products with technical condition monitoring sensors. Wabtec and Trinity Rail continued to introduce new telematics platforms.
The manufacturer said that its specialists have already begun work. Earlier, the authorities of the LPR reported that the Russian company would organize production at the Stakhanov Railway Car Building Works.
Evgeniy Semenov, Executive Director of the Russian Wagon Building Union (WBU), in an interview with ROLLINGSTOCK told about the situation with the supply of one of the key modern freight cars components.