MSC subsidiary Medway Belgium ordered from Siemens Mobility Vectron MS locomotives planned to be used for cross-border freight transport in Europe and also for supplementing container transport by ship in serving the eastern hinterland of Antwerp.
“MSC continues to invest at a European level via its Medway arm to strengthen its intermodal offering, improving its capacity to serve clients not only with its core deep-sea solutions, but also inland. Improving these areas provides our customers with a portfolio of services and solutions designed to simplify and support their supply chain,” Salvatore Prudente, Executive Director of MEDWAY, said.
The new locomotives will be deployed within an East-West geographical scope, improving connections and capacity between Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Poland, and landlocked central and eastern countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They will provide customers with a more flexible, efficient and sustainable way of moving cargo inland.
The locomotives, manufactured at Siemens Mobility’s plant in Munich-Allach, have a maximum power at wheel of 6,400 KW and a top speed of 160 km/h. In addition to the required national train control systems, all locomotives will also be equipped with the European Train Control System ETCS.
“We’re especially pleased that we’ve been able to win MEDWAY Belgium as a new customer with this order. With their record for reliability and flexibility, our Vectron locomotives enable sustainable cross-border freight transport throughout Europe,” Albrecht Neumann, CEO Rolling Stock, Siemens Mobility, said.
Falling under MSC’s inland logistics partner Medlog, Medway Belgium operates as a licensed freight rail operator in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria and began operations in July 2022. Medway is currently a rail operator in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Italy and owns rolling stock, operated by partners, in Türkiye and India. Medway runs more than 40,000 trains yearly, covering over 8.2 million km, with a global fleet of 115 locomotives and more than 4,800 railcars.
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