[2] During January 2009, PCC announced the sale of its Polish rail logistics subsidiary to the German state railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB); at the time of the transaction, PCC Rail was the largest privately-owned railway company operating in Poland.

[3][4] The acquisition of the company, which was initially rebranded as DB Schenker Rail Poland, was one part of a wider trend towards consolidation that was occurring across Europe at that time.

[6] Nevertheless, Hans Georg Werner, the CEO of DB Schenker Rail Poland publicly accused PKP Cargo of conducting anti-competitive practices, specifically that it had unreasonably prevented the company from accessing its terminal outside Lublin, and thus hampering rivals from running their own intermodal freight services; the accusation was disputed by PKP Cargo's management.

[7] Three years later, the heads of DB Schenker Rail Polska, Freightliner PL, and CTL Logistics jointly voiced their concerns that high charges for track access and the poor quality of some infrastructure were hindering the development of the rail freight sector in Poland; specifically, there was little modernisation work, a shortage of suitable sidings for loading/unloading, a lack of facilities to handle intermodal freight, and allegations of monopolistic practices by PKP Cargo.

[13] The Vectron was the first locomotive designed to conform with the Technical Specification for Interoperability, facilitating the easier operation of cross-border services.