DB Schenker Rail to invest approx. EUR 410 million in new freight cars
and locomotives in 2010
Dr. Rausch, Member of the Management Board of DB Mobility and
Logistics AG: “This is a record amount in our history”
(Mainz, September 2, 2010) DB Schenker Rail, the Deutsche Bahn freight operator,
will invest approx. EUR 410 million primarily in new freight cars and locomotives
throughout Europe this year. "This is a record amount which we plan to invest at
exactly those points where there is increasing customer demand for our
transport services and where modern equipment is required," explained Dr.
Karl-Friedrich Rausch, Member of the Management Board of DB Mobility
Logistics AG, responsible for Transportation and Logistics. The fleet
modernization process currently concentrates on freight cars for the coal and
steel sector and for the chemicals and automotive industries.
Roughly EUR 190 million will be spent on new freight cars and repairing the
existing fleet, a further EUR 167 million will be invested in locomotives. The
remaining funds will be spread between various investments in facilities and IT
equipment. By the end of the year, some 1472 new freight cars and 71 new
locomotives will have been purchased for DB Schenker Rail, including 700 cars
specially for coal and steel transports.
During the first half of 2010, DB Schenker Rail succeeded in raising the volume
of transported freight to a total of 203 million tons. This was an increase of 58
million tons year-on-year or 40.1 percent. During that same period, traffic
performance rose by 8.3 billion to 52.6 billion ton-kilometers, which is equivalent
to an increase of 18.8 percent. There were particularly high increases in the
transport of iron, ores and scrap metals.
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