Tags: DB Cargo

DB Cargo: Digital freight train goes into customer use

DB Board Member Dr Sigrid Nikutta: Digital Automatic Coupling is being developed to series maturity together with customers • New technology puts more freight on the rails and accelerates the freight transport system • Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl, Managing Director Kerstin Rippel: We need the turbo for our supply chains Almost half a million freight wagons are […]

Digital automatic coupling for freight wagons on the go

By 2030, half a million freight wagons across Europe will be equipped with digital automatic coupling • Wagons can be retrofitted during ongoing operations • 150 pop-up workshops planned in Europe • First test in practice a success Digital automatic coupling (DAC) is set to simplify rail freight transport in Europe and make it faster. […]

Barnsdales FM takes on HQ of UK’s largest rail freight company

Barnsdales FM are delighted to have been appointed as the new facilities manager of DB Cargo’s UK headquarters. Based at Lakeside Business Park in Doncaster, DB Cargo is the UK’s largest rail freight company, transporting millions of tonnes of freight across the nation each year. The company transports everything from cereals to coal, barbecues to […]

Siemens Mobility to deliver 50 dual-mode locomotives to DB Cargo and the DB Bahnbau Group

Last mile without changing locomotives with Vectron Dual Mode locomotives Sustainable concept thanks to combined electric and diesel power Production at the Siemens Mobility plant in Munich-Allach DB Cargo AG and DB Bahnbaugruppe GmbH have together ordered a total of 50 locomotives from Siemens Mobility. The Vectron Dual Mode locomotives will be delivered with specific […]