Since April 2021, 20 wagons loaded with tubbings for a highway tunnel have been rolling from Tirol to Switzerland once a week. The total volume of the pioneering end-to-end transport is 60,000 tonnes.

Since five years, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) transports goods sustainably by rail between Bratislava and the port of Koper.

Starting in early February until the beginning of March 2022, the prototype DAC4EU demonstrator train travelled the length and breadth of Austria. In the course of this, the Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) was subjected to an extensive test program.

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) sets digital standards in timber transport with the Österreichische Bundesforste (German for “Austrian Federal Forests”).

Two of three ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) warehouse locations in Austria are now climate-neutral - namely Lenzing and Vienna Freudenau. RCG is therefore offsetting unavoidable emissions.

As early as October, the Rolling Road (ROLA) had surpassed the transport volumes achieved in the full-year in 2020 and 2019.

The amendment to the Waste Management Act was passed in the Austrian Parliament.

As from 2022, the ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) will link Vorarlberg to the Lake Constance region, with onward connections to Belgium and Italy.

Following on from Austria and Germany, the ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) now also operates in the Czech Republic with 100 % green traction current. This means that all TransFER connections operated by RCG using in-house traction to, from and through the Czech Republic will be powered exclusively by traction current from renewable energy sources.

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) will once again be present at the “Made in Steel” trade fair in Milan from 5 to 7 October with its own exhibition booth.