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March 10, 2020 | Fleet

Third Chinese hybrid locomotive for DB delivered

DESPITE significant disruption to logistics caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China, the third of four 750kW diesel-battery hybrid locomotives built by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive for German Rail (DB) arrived in Germany in early March.

March 3, 2020 | Freight

CN recalls staff to restart rail services in eastern Canada

CN has started to recall most of its employees in eastern Canada who were laid off temporarily as a result of blockades of its rail network by indigenous people protesting against the construction of a pipeline in British Columbia.

March 3, 2020 | High-speed

Agreement for new Dresden - Prague high-speed line signed

GERMANY and the Czech Republic have reached an agreement to construct a high-speed line, including a 25km tunnel, between the German city of Dresden and the Czech capital of Prague.

March 2, 2020 | Infrastructure

Work on final section of Oldenburg - Wilhelmshaven upgrade gets underway

A ceremony was held on February 28 to mark the start of work to electrify and track double the 9km Oldenburg - Rastede section of the 70km Oldenburg - Wilhelmshaven line, the final phase of a project to improve rail freight connections to Germany’s JadeWeserPort at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea coast.

February 27, 2020 | Europe

Skoda set to expand Ostrava factory

SKODA Transportation has held a ceremony to mark the start of a Koruna 1bn ($US 43m) expansion of its Skoda Vagonka production facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

February 27, 2020 | Infrastructure

Testing of Switzerland’s Ceneri Base Tunnel set to begin

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) is set to commission ETCS Level 2 in the Ceneri Base Tunnel on the night of February 29 ahead of the start of line testing by Alp Transit Gotthard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBB and the developer of the 15.4km tunnel, the following day.

February 26, 2020 | Financial

EC orders CFR Marfa to repay illegal state aid

AN investigation by the European Commission (EC) has found that Romanian state-owned freight operator CFR Marfa received €570m in illegal state aid, comprising a debt write-off and failure to collect debts from the railway undertaking, beginning in 2010. The operator must now pay this amount back to the government, with interest.

February 26, 2020 | Financial

BNSF revenues and volumes down in 2019

BNSF’s revenues fell by 1% in 2019 to $US 23.52bn compared with $US 23.86bn in 2018 with the railway reporting a 4% decrease in unit volumes during the year.

February 25, 2020 | Financial

VTG takes majority share in Carbo Rail

HAMBURG-based wagon leasing and logistic company VTG has taken a majority share in Slovakian rail freight operator Carbo Rail.

February 20, 2020 | Freight

Rail freight through Port of Hamburg jumps 10%

RAIL freight passing through the Port of Hamburg jumped 10.4% to 2.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2019, a new record for the port.

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