Kazakhstan: Prime minister Alihan Smaiylov introduced plans for the delivery of locomotives, passenger, and freight cars for the fleet of the national operator and its subsidiaries.
Russia: Remputmash, a Kaluga-based company of STM, received approval under TR EAEU 001/2011. According to Viktor Voronovich, CEO of the Federal Freight company, FFC considers purchasing 720 container flatcars.
Russia: The company is working on the certification of a bogie for a 25-t axle load. R&D is also underway in the direction of telematics and a pre-design study of a two-axle bogie for 140 km/h railcars is being carried out.
USA: The CO2Rail startup is working with several universities to develop a technology to capture CO2 from the air, which is planned to be applied to a tank car refurbished for this purpose.
Austria: The project has been implemented by the freight operator since 2019 together with the A1 mobile operator and is aimed at equipping up to 12,000 freight cars with SmartCargo telematics devices.
India: Over the next three years, the company intends to increase the annual production of freight cars at its Titagarh plant from 8,000 to 12,000 units, as well as to build facilities to produce metro trains.
Russia: The launch of production is scheduled for 2023. The declared amount of investments is 1.3 bln RUR ($20.5 mln USD) and it is planned to receive the state support from the Industrial Development Fund.
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.
