Rail Cargo Austria

[2] Officials opted to reorganise the state opened Austrian Federal Railways, (ÖBB); during the early 2000s, it was decided to spin out its freight operations as a separate entity.

[3] Despite this perspective, from the onset of operations, RCA has collaborate closely with ÖBB and established agencies on matters of infrastructure, being particularly interested in measures to reduce or remove impediments to traffic across the Austrian rail network.

[5] By mid-2007, RCA was assessing opportunities related to the goods transport division of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV-Cargo), which policy makers had declared their intention to privatise.

[citation needed] In January 2017, ÖBB signed framework agreement with the German engineering conglomerate Siemens for the latter to supply 200 Vectron electric locomotives.

[6] Early in 2018, RGA investigated options to standardise its international operations to a greater extent, particularly in terms of traffic management, planning, ordering, and resource dispatching.

Following a successful trial, it was decided to adopt the RailCube enterprise resource planning software package for this purpose, which is claimed to improve customer information and operational flexibility.

[10][11][12] In May 2019, RCA launched a new long distance cargo service between Vienna and the Swedish ferry port of Trelleborg that runs up to four times per week to better connect Austria with Northern Europe.

[15] During January 2020, a new biweekly non-stop freight service was launched between the Italian city of Verona and Germany’s largest Baltic Sea port in Lübeck, under the TransFER brand.

The five companies include: Rail Cargo Carrier provides locomotives and employees and carries block trains to and from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, as far as Russia or Turkey.