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ÖBB has founded a joint venture for the maintenance of around 230 locomotives and wagons of the ELL and LTE railway companies. The workshop will be built in Gramatneusiedl (Lower Austria, Bruck / Leitha district). Maintenance will begin in the fall of 2021. ÖBB has had a joint venture with Western Railway for train maintenance since 2017.
“With the construction of the workshop at the Gramatneusiedl location, we are ensuring a strategically convenient location in the Vienna metropolitan area and also creating new jobs in the region,” Sandra Gott-Karlbauer, Managing Director of ÖBB TS, said in a statement from press.
“After many years of planning and another year of negotiations with the competition authority in Brussels, the project is now entering the next phase,” said Michael Benda and Andreas Mandl, Chief Financial Officer and CEO of LTE.
The workshop must offer space for several locomotives. “In a room with an area of approximately 1,000 square meters and with four workstations, we will probably be able to support all interested companies with state-of-the-art equipment since the fall of 2021,” says ELL chief Christoph Katzensteiner.
LTE Logistics & Transport Europe is one of the largest private rail transport companies in Europe and is active in Central and Eastern Europe with nine subsidiaries and two sister companies. The turnover with 500 employees and 80 locomotives was around 150 million euros in 2019.
ELL is a young locomotive rental company based in Vienna. The current inventory of locomotives includes 152 modern Siemens Vectron locomotives for the transport of cargo and passengers in Europe. (apa / red)
