Bombardier Transportation handed over the 40th Traxx Multi-System 2 (MS2) locomotive to Metrans, in a ceremony held at Metrans’ container terminal site in Uhříněves near Prague.
With the new locomotive, the Metrans’ rail subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has expanded its fleet to a total of 80 locomotives, and it can now react even more quickly and flexibly to changing market requirements.
Metrans, a Czech rail private operator, and a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen and Logistik AG (HHLA), first ordered the locomotives in 2014 and called off an additional 10 locomotives in 2017. The delivery of the 40th Bombardier multi-system locomotive completes a series that began with the first order for Bombardier locomotive.
The type Traxx F140MS multi-system locomotives are specially designed for the different supply voltage and train protection systems – 15 kV and 25 kV alternating current and 1.5 kV and 3 kV direct current – in place across Europe, meaning they are suited for transnational European rail transport. Metrans will mainly be using the new locomotives for rail transport between the North Sea ports of Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam and Antwerp, and the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
“With more of our own locomotives, we can even better control the transport processes of Metrans. This will allow us to be even more reliable, to be more flexible in response to the requests of our customers and to offer new services,” said Martin Horinek, Metrans CEO.
Metrans uses its fleet of Traxx locomotives primarily to move freight between from Europe’s main harbours to depots, with an emphasis on connecting Hamburg with the Metrans terminals in Prague and Česká Třebová.
The network of HHLA rail subsidiaries comprises 13 inland terminals in five Central and Eastern European countries. In the first six months of 2018 alone, the company carried 13,000 container trains through Europe. Until 2022, HHLA will provide Metrans with EUR 350 million in investment funds for new terminal facilities, locomotives and for the wagon fleet.
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