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Enhancing safety and transparency in rail freight transport: Sensors on VTG wagons

Enhancing safety and transparency in rail freight transport: Sensors on VTG wagons

Until 2023 VTG wants to equip 15.000 rail freight wagons with sensors and/or wayside monitoring on their safety-related parts, namely brake system (sensors in brake pads), the wheelset (sensors for bearing monitoring), and /or wagon overall condition (sensors for load status), representing 15% of the VTG Rail Europe’s wagon fleet,…

12 / 03 / 2021
Freight
Innovation for the modal shift: VTG to Europe-wide use of VEGA r2L technology to put trailers on the rails

Innovation for the modal shift: VTG to Europe-wide use of VEGA r2L technology to put trailers on the rails

This technology innovation meets the EU Green Deal: 90 % of all European terminals can immediately use…

01 / 03 / 2021
Technologies and infrastructure
Digital Automatic Coupling for all European freight wagons before 2030

Digital Automatic Coupling for all European freight wagons before 2030

The introduction of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) is an impending revolution in increasing the competitiveness…

01 / 03 / 2021
Freight
Retrack and VTG Rail Logistic hired European Loc Pool locomotives, Lena and Nina

Retrack and VTG Rail Logistic hired European Loc Pool locomotives, Lena and Nina

VTG Rail Logistic Deutschland and its subsidiary Retrack GmbH have entered into an agreement with European…

17 / 02 / 2021
Business
Maximum flexibility: VTG FastTrack now also available at the ports in Trieste and Venlo

Maximum flexibility: VTG FastTrack now also available at the ports in Trieste and Venlo

VTG further expands established offerings. Container and pocket wagons available for ad-hoc tranports.…

07 / 02 / 2021
Freight
VTG appoints Péter Juhász to management team at VTG Rail Logistics Hungaria Kft.

VTG appoints Péter Juhász to management team at VTG Rail Logistics Hungaria Kft.

Péter Juhász and Zoltán Potvorszki are the head of Hungarian subsidiary as two-man team.Imre Seprenyi is appointed authorized officer.

06 / 02 / 2021
Business
The VTG fleet in Germany and Switzerland is being converted to LL brake shoes

The VTG fleet in Germany and Switzerland is being converted to LL brake shoes

VTG's fleets in Germany and Switzerland were converted to new composite brake shoes. Silent brake shoes are on 30,000 wagons. It was an investment in the…

22 / 12 / 2020
Technologies and infrastructure
VTG has expanded its collaboration with Nexxiot. 3000 wagons are equipped with temperature sensors

VTG has expanded its collaboration with Nexxiot. 3000 wagons are equipped with temperature sensors

Since December, VTG has been using Nexxiot temperature sensors on 3,000 wagons. The sensors are used to monitor the real condition of the goods, which…

04 / 12 / 2020
Freight
The Rail Pulse: The Transformation of 21st Century Rail Transport in USA

The Rail Pulse: The Transformation of 21st Century Rail Transport in USA

The GATX Corporation, the Norfolk Southern, the Genesee & Wyoming, the TrinityRail and the Watco have announced a creation of a joint technology platform.…

04 / 11 / 2020
Technologies and infrastructure
VTG: Green bonds successfully launched on the market

VTG: Green bonds successfully launched on the market

The VTG has placed € 746 million worth bonds on the capital markets of Europe and the US with great success. This was due to capital restructuring while…

03 / 11 / 2020
Technologies and infrastructure
Retrack and ELP: New leasing contract for EuroDual locomotives

Retrack and ELP: New leasing contract for EuroDual locomotives

The subsidiaries of VTG Rail Logistics, Retrack and ELP (European Loc Pool) have signed a contract for leasing of locomotives, including all services.…

20 / 10 / 2020
Business
Automatic coupling device till 2030

Automatic coupling device till 2030

Other technological innovations in the world of rail freight transport did not take long. After composite brake shoes and the expansion of GPS systems,…

03 / 09 / 2020
Technologies and infrastructure
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