Green Cargo

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Green Cargo

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legal form Corporation
founding January 1, 2001
Seat Solna , Sweden
Hallsberg
management Håkan Buskhe,
Mikael Stöhr
Number of employees 2,900 (2011 including subsidiaries)
sales 6.196 million Swedish crowns (2009)
Website www.greencargo.se

A Green Cargo train in Ockelbo .

Green Cargo (GC) is a railway company in the freight . It emerged from Statens Järnvägar , the Swedish state railway, on January 1, 2001 as a result of the EU rail liberalization .

The public company is wholly owned by the Swedish state. It is administered by the Ministry of Economy. The company's chairman has been Håkan Buskhe since 2009. Green Cargo is a member of the RIV and UIC .

traffic

The company owns its own locomotives that have been taken over by the Swedish State Railways. Likewise were freight cars over. Green Cargo does not have its own routes. In addition to the block train business , which it has to share with other railway companies, it also carries out wagonload traffic in Sweden. It also has its own trucks for serving customers without their own siding . The company has three subsidiaries , TGOJ Trafik AB , Nordisk Transport Rail and Hallsbergs Terminal AB.

In 2004 she took over (especially for selected sidings in Norway paper mills ) the weekly operation after the CargoNet the single wagonload had given up. In 2005, a takeover offer from German Railion was rejected by the Swedish authorities after the intervention of large Swedish industry. From March 2008 to March 2018, Green Cargo held a 49% stake in DB Schenker Rail Danmark Services A / S , since 2016 DB Cargo Danmark Services .

With effect from January 1, 2011, TGOJ Trafik AB , which was independent until then, was integrated into the parent company.

technology

In 2011 the company owned 469 locomotives, including 263 electric and 206 diesel locomotives and 5,900 freight cars. In road freight transport, the company works with around 250 subcontractors,

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release by Green Cargo ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Facts of the company ( Memento of March 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)

Web links

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