World rail freight news round-up

ÖBB’s Rail Cargo Group has put into traffic a novel wagon design for carrying salt which will be used to support Donau Chemie’s efforts to move more produce by rail. The operator says it has worked with Donau Chemie to develop a bespoke salt hopper fitted with a highly resilient internal coating to reduce the risk of corrosion and to speed up loading and unloading. The wagons are now being used on flows linking Koper in Slovenia and Ebensee in Austria with the Donau Chemie plant at Brückl, where salt is required for electrolysis 

WH Davis is to design and manufacture 16 wagons for the transport of hot steel billets at Celsa UK’s Cardiff site. The wagons will use components from existing vehicles …