GERMAN transport minister Dr Peter Ramsauer announced on December 9 that the German federal government will provide a €19m grant towards the extension of the Strasbourg light rail network across the river Rhine to the German town of Kehl.
GERMAN Rail's (DB) long-distance passenger division, DB Fernverkehr, has issued a call for tenders to fit European Train Control System (ETCS) to its ICE1 fleet of high-speed trains.
ANTITRUST authorities in Germany and Austria have approved the merger between VTG and the rail logistics division of Kuehne & Nagel, allowing the new VTG Rail Logistics to be launched on January 1.
THE latest figures from Germany's federal statistics agency Destatis show that Europe's largest railfreight market suffered declining volumes in the first three quarters of this year.
THE Bonatrans Group, Czech Republic, has reached agreement with GHH Radsatz International Holding to acquire Gutehoffnungshütte Radsatz, Germany, subject to the approval of anti-monopoly authorities.
GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Regio has reached an agreement with Poland's Regional Railways (PR) to continue operating the cross-border RE 100 Dresden Wroclaw Express service.
THE European Commission (EC) has begun legal proceedings against Germany at the European Court of Justice for failing to separate financial flows between the train operating subsidiaries of German Rail (DB) and infrastructure manager DB Networks.
HANNOVER Transport Authority (Üstra) exercised an option for another 50 type TW 3000 light rail vehicles on November 15 to coincide with the completion of the first batch of 50 units by a consortium of Vossloh Kiepe and Alstom.
THE German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württenberg have launched a joint tender through Bavarian Railway Company (BEG) for two concessions to operate diesel regional services in the Allgäu area.
SIEMENS has delivered the first of eight Avenio low-floor LRVs ordered by Munich Transport (MVG) in September 2012 in a deal worth €29m.