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.
Russia: Such data was provided by GPBL CEO Maksim Kalinkin. In the beginning of 2021 the company was procuring container flatcars with the price of $40 tsd USD per each, but now contracts are signed with the price of at least $49 tsd USD.
