Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
11 April 2024
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
Russia: According to UralVagonZavod’s Volchansky Mechanical Plant, the 25 tf four-axle flatcar is designed to transport containers and, with special removable equipment installed, rails.
EU: GATX Rail Europe has announced that all leasing contracts will include the Basic Telematics Package to track the location of railcars online at no additional cost from March.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
USA: In mid-March, the US DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected a company to develop a concept for building a railway infrastructure on Earth’s satellite.
Slovenia: In cooperation with SSC Railtec from Germany, the local Container d.o.o. has developed and certified a new design of a 20-foot container with a payload of 4.2 t for the transport of passenger cars on two levels.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
Uzbekistan: This was announced during the recent visit of the country’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to a site of the national operator O‘zbekiston temir yo‘llari in Tashkent.
USA: Within public hearings, representatives of numerous trade unions urged the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to reject or at least restrict the tests of the new self-propelled rolling stock technology, planned to be conducted in Georgia.