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The Royal Train will be decommissioned ahead of the current contract expiring in March 2027.

DB Cargo UK has been awarded a new warrant by His Majesty King Charles III to maintain and operate the Royal Train.

Three Laaeffrs560.4 wagons built by CRRC Shandong were recently present at the VÚKV test base in Cerhenice.

In cooperation between the participating companies, DB Cargo, Innofreight and ArcelorMittal, the first test transport in a superstructures called DryTainer took place at the end of February 2024.

DB Cargo Italia ordered four EffiShunter 1000 locomotives in early October 2022.

The m2 project was officially presented in September 2020 and has been moving forward since then, so wouldn’t there be a covid break, it would probably have already had more public presentations.

DB Cargo wants to respond to the expected increasing consumption of hydrogen and to the developing methods of its transport by sea with follow-up transports from ports to the hinterland.

Automated brake testing is also picking up speed in Germany. A pilot train with the automated brake testing system has been put into parallel operation by DB Cargo at Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn in June.

On 12 July 2022, HS2 confirmed that more than a million tonnes of construction material have been delivered by rail to the high speed rail’s work sites across Buckinghamshire, taking the equivalent of 100,096 HGV journeys off local roads.

At the beginning of March 2022, European Loc Pool announced that before end of 2021 it had concluded a contract with DB Cargo for the full-service leasing of six EURODUAL locomotives.

On 25 November 2021, DB Cargo Polska took over the four Vectron MS locomotives.

DB Cargo Polska has signed a contract with Siemens Mobility for purchasing four Vectron MS locomotives, as the operator announced on 1 March 2021.