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Crisis in rail freight transport: industry struggles for growth and market share – impulses from combined transport and digitalisation

04/06/2025

European rail freight transport is amid a profound crisis. Disruptions in U.S. foreign policy and shifts in global trade are colliding with an industry already facing structural weaknesses. Key causes include declining demand for traditional goods (coal, steel, chemicals), insufficiently digitised infrastructure, and increasing transformation pressure from EU competition policy. Profitable companies remain the exception, and rail continues to lose market share to road transport.

+SCI Verkehr supports the next generation: BahnSpielBox presented to Cologne Kindergarten04/06/2025more
+Lecture TU Berlin 2025 / Startup in the rail sector - What options are there apart from Siemens, DB & Co?05/05/2025more
+Fünf Erfolgsfaktoren für die nachhaltige Leistungsfähigkeit der Bahn04/04/2025more
+High-Speed Rail Transport: Faster Trains in Asia and Increased Competition in Europe's High-Speed Network03/04/2025more
+Learning from Italy: How Germany can also introduce the European Train Control System (ETCS) more efficiently27/01/2025more
+Keynote DVZ-Konferenz 2024 / Welche Zukunft hat der Kombinierte Verkehr?02/12/2024more
+Keynote BCCG Mobility Konferenz 2024 / Europäischer Schienengüterverkehr: Staatsbahnen oder Privatbahnen?02/12/2024more
+Electric locomotives: More power and technology drive modernisation in Europe - Global production capacities limit the flourishing market22/11/2024more
+Light-rail vehicles: Global market growth despite system competition from metro and bus04/11/2024more
+Global freight wagon market set for growth – current market weakness to slow European OEM market in the coming years21/08/2024more
+SCI Verkehr Appoints Alexander Borchers to Executive Management alongside Maria Leenen for 30th Anniversary08/07/2024more
+New trains for more competition in European long-distance rail transport – the revival of locomotive-hauled trains offers the potential for tripling growth rates06/06/2024more
+The global metro market: Driven by urbanisation and climate policy – limited by available budget resourcesy expansion06/05/2024more
+Vorfahrt für den digitalen Güterwagen - SCI Verkehr unterstützt mit hwh und Connected Value das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr04/03/2024more
+Building intelligence – Multitalented Control Command and Signalling / Digitisation offers great opportunities for faster capacity expansion02/02/2024more
+Initial optimism about a green locomotive fleet in Europe is giving way to the realisation that the transformation will be both slow and expensive12/12/2023more
+Ports, terminals and railway operators are highly attractive for global logistics players, especially in times of crisis05/12/2023more
+Europe strives to eliminate railway electrification backlog, driving continental growth24/11/2023more
+Rail vehicle maintenance: Manufacturers secure growing market share at the expenses of railway operators24/11/2023more
+Approche du marché européen et français de la location de locomotives25/10/2023more
+Europe's rail infrastructure on track for growth: investments drive the global track market27/07/2023more
+Rail freight transport in Europe is facing major changes27/07/2023more
+Growth in focus – rolling stock manufacturers successfully defy global crises12/07/2023more
+High-speed rail (HSR): Asia and Europe make up the global market among themselves11/04/2023more
+Freight wagons: Despite weak economic outlook – manufacturers continue to invest in increasing capacities01/12/2022more
+Light rail vehicles and streetcars worldwide: Positive growth expectations still prevail despite tight municipal budgets22/11/2022more
+Der Blick von außen auf die Eisenbahnforschung15/11/2022more
+Market Study on Monorail Systems22/09/2022more
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+Firmentransfer erfolgreich begleitet22/06/2022more
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+Megatrend urban mobility: the global metro network will grow by 50% until 203014/04/2022more
+SCI Verkehr strengthens its management team: Tobias Blätgen and Leandro Giaretta-Padovan become authorised signatories (Prokuristen)09/03/2022more
+Modern electric locomotives spur competition in European long-distance passenger rail transport Study shows growing demand for universally deployable, faster and more powerful electric locomotives07/03/2022more
+New study "Rolling Stock Manufacturers 2021"06/10/2021more
+Personnel realignment of the management team at the management consultancy SCI Verkehr24/06/2021more
+Global market for electric buses: Chinese manufacturers dominate - Western traditional manufacturers enter series production.23/06/2021more
+The European railway market 2021 - Covid-19 crisis and market trends10/06/2021more
+AWAKE Mobility mit SCI Verkehr im Podcast10/03/2021more
+Start-ups to jump on the mobility train03/03/2021more
+Worldwide railway electrification market with high volume despite budget constraints18/02/2021more
+New study „Market Report Rail Vehicle Maintenance Europe 2020“26/11/2020more
+New study "Rail Track System - Global Market Trends 2020"24/09/2020more
+The COVID 19 crisis causes turmoil in the global railway market - climate protection the main driver of future growth17/09/2020more
+Worldwide demand for diesel locomotives collapses due to COVID-1928/08/2020more
+World market for multiple units: end of diesel trains initiated?10/08/2020more
+Press commentary by SCI Verkehr GmbH on the takeover of Bombardier by Alstom31/07/2020more
+Are the decks being reshuffled in the global rail technology?30/07/2020more
+High-quality and reliable off-the-shelf rail market data29/06/2020more
+Freight wagons worldwide: market easing after all-time high - stimulus packages will not compensate for declining demand in every region15/06/2020more
+Knowledge portal SCI RAILDATA asks users: 80% of customers are satisfied or very satisfied with the product18/05/2020more
+MultiClient Study „Impact of the Corona Crisis on the railway sector in Europe“05/05/2020more
+Free Access SCI Raildata17/03/2020more
+New SCI Shop online – now with additional products and formats12/12/2019more
+MultiClient Study: Buses - Global Market Trends 201920/11/2019more
+MultiClient study: Light Rail Vehicles - Global Market Trends 201907/11/2019more
+Beitrag zum Klimakabinett: Schienengüterverkehr ist der Schlüssel für die Verkehrswende23/09/2019more
+Press commentary by SCI Verkehr GmbH on the sale of Vossloh Locomotive division to CRRC27/08/2019more
+MultiClient study: Electric Locomotives - Global Market Trends 201909/08/2019more
+MultiClient study: Control Command and Signalling - Worldwide Market Trends 201905/06/2019more
+MultiClient study: Metro Vehicles - Global Market Trends 201929/05/2019more
+Der Kombinierte Verkehr Schiene-Strasse - Entwicklung, Ausblick und Heurausforderungen16/05/2019more
+SCI Raildata receives a new feature04/04/2019more
+MultiClient study: European Rail Freight Transport Market 201928/03/2019more
+MultiClient study: The Chinese Railway Market 201909/01/2019more
+E-Mobilität von gestern für morgen - mit der Eisenbahn in eine emmissionsärmere Zukunft16/11/2018more
+MultiClient study: Worldwide Rolling Stock Manufacturers 201812/11/2018more
+MultiClient study: Worldwide Market for Railway Industries 201814/09/2018more
+15 Jahre SCI/Logistikbarometer17/07/2018more
+Alexander Herbermann neuer Prokurist der SCI Verkehr GmbH13/07/2018more
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+MultiClient study: The Railway Market in Africa and the Middle East 201801/06/2018more
+The international cross-sectoral balance and transport corridors28/05/2018more
+MultiClient study: Multiple Units - Global Market Trends 201818/05/2018more
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