UK: The German component manufacturer and VTG Rail UK, the British division of the leasing company, have signed an agreement for the delivery of at least 2,000 sets of the FreightControl Sentinel system.
Germany: The leasing company manufactured the prototype at its own Waggonbau Graaff factory in Elze, Germany. Previously, the same site produced a tank wagon for transporting ammonia and all types of LNG.
Germany: The G80.106D tank car is manufactured at VTG’s plant Waggonbau Graaff in Elze, Germany. The vehicle is designed to transport ammonia and all types of LNG.
Overview of recent contracts and deals in the freight rolling stock market.
Germany: The four-axle Uacns P81.075D freight car is intended to transport cement as well as other products, including fly ash, chalk, and aluminium powder.
Germany: This year’s InnoTrans puts on display flatcars, hoppers, autoracks and tank cars from Tatravagonka, Greenbrier Europe, Nymwag and others as well as swap bodies.
UK: The leasing company VTG Rail UK delivered a batch of 34 F07C hoppers to Mendip Rail. Under the contract dated March 2023, a total of 203 such hoppers are to be supplied by May 2025.
Spain: The German leasing company has ordered rolling stock from Tatravagonka, Slovakia. The new flatcars can operate on both 1,435 mm and 1,668 mm gauge tracks.
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.
