Next month JR Freight is to extend its Kangaroo Liner TF60 service, which was launched in March to link Nagoya and Fukuoka. It has 15 wagons for Seino Group, and five available to other companies. From October 5 it will be extended link the Tokyo logistics centre in Yashio, Shinagawa, with Fukuyama, a distance of 779 km.
German operator EVB has taken delivery of a Stadler EuroDual electro-diesel locomotive under a long-term full service lease from European Loc Pool. It will be used to haul trains for Schwaiger Holzindustrie
Kazakhstan has begun work on a €1·69bn project to double-track and electrify the line from the Alakol area to Dostyk on the Chinese border. This forms part of a wider project to modernise the transit corridor from China to Russia by 2025.
United Wagon Co is to supply a batch of Type 13-6895 timber wagons to Vitebsk Sawmill, one of the largest exporters of edged softwood timber in Belarus.
LTG Cargo Ukraine has awarded the Poltava and Mykolaiv diesel locomotive repair plants contracts to service and repair its locomotives, and plans to lease four ChME3 shunting locomotives from the Poltava plant.
Leasing company VTG Rail Russia has ordered 100 container wagons from United Wagon Co, taking its fleet of Tikhvin-built wagons to 350. ‘In planning and diversifying our fleet we are guided by the following criteria: the rolling stock must be commercially viable for our clients, it must be of advanced technical specifications, and, in terms of cost-effectiveness, it must meet the targets set by our shareholders’, said Olga Yakimova, CEO of VTG Rail Russia. ’UWC’s flat cars meet all these requirements.’
The Rail Working Group and Swiss supply chain digitisation company Nexxiot are working together to implement the Unique Rail Vehicle Identification System, and will place URVIS numbers on all rolling stock supported by Nexxiot as soon as these numbers are available. Nexxiot said its proprietary cloud-based technology has the flexibility and scalability to encourage uniform acceptance by shippers, operators and governments.