Austria: The group increased its stake from 40% to 61.4%. Two other shareholders, Voestalpine, an Austrian steel producer, and RCG, a freight operator subsidiary of OBB, reduced their stakes to 31% and 7.6% respectively.
EU: The goal is to commence equipping the entire European freight fleet of 500,000 cars with digital automatic coupling, DAC, in 2028, despite criticism.
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.
Austria: The first train from Siemens Mobility has been put in operation by the national operator OBB on the Vienna–Feldkirch route.
Austria: The conversion conducted by mZERO, an engineering consultancy in Austria, has resulted in replacing the 122kW engine of the MAN X534 track machine with hydrogen fuel cells of the same power produced by Accelera (part of Cummins, USA).
Austria: The company declared that its products are compatible with fuel based on hydrogenated vegetable oil, HVO100.
The most significant events and trends in the global rolling stock market in 2023 according to the ROLLINGSTOCK team.
Austria: The federal state of Upper Austria’s government shared the renders of the trams manufactured at Stadler’s plant in Valencia, Spain.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
