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World rail freight news round-up

Swedish operator ProTrain Trafik has agreed to lease four Voith Gravita 10 centre-cab locomotives and four new Vossloh Rolling Stock DE18 Stage V locomotives with ETCS from Northrail. The first of the four Gravita locos was handed over on December 30, with the other three to follow on March 1. 

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Works has extended the contract for the Sogdiana Trans subsidiary of Uzbekistan’s national railway UTY to operate the Hairatan – Mazar-i-Sharif line.

Colgate-Palmolive has awarded FS Group’s Mercitalia Intermodal a further contract for the door-to-door transport of personal care and parapharmaceutical products between its Anzio plant and distribution centres in the Netherlands, France, Germany and UK, including six trains per week between the Pomezia terminal and Duisburg.

BNSF has announced a $3·8bn capital investment plan for 2025. This includes $2·84bn for maintenance and $535m for expansion and efficiency projects. These include completing a multi-year expansion of the Cicero…

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