Rail vehicle manufacturers defy the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and look to the future with optimism

Maria Leenen, managing partner of SCI Verkehr is realigning her management team: As of 01.07.2021, Nicolas Wille will support the management as COO. Tobias Blätgen will take over as office manager in Cologne and ...

The Chinese market for electric buses continues to account for more than 95% of the global market. Nevertheless, the market for electric buses in other world regions has developed very dynamically in the past two years.

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The current global market volume for railway electrification is approx. EUR 9.6 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 0.7% per year until 2025.

New study „Rail Track System - Global Market Trends 2020“

New study by SCI Verkehr GmbH "Worldwide Market for Railway Industries 2020

SCI Verkehr expects a significant reduction of the OEM business for diesel locomotives (-24% from 2020 to 2024) in light of the worldwide uncertainties in the railway industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the commissioning of the first larger fleet of trains powered by alternative propulsion systems, the decarbonisation in rail transport is currently gaining momentum. - New study on Multiple Units.

New study on the global market for rolling stock manufacturers

SCI Verkehr now also offers standard data and time series in its online shop

New study on the global freight wagon market

The COVID-19 crisis is hitting the rail industry in Europe very hard and possibly sustainably.

Solidarity in times of Covid19: SCI Verkehr opens its desired and usually fee-based knowledge portal SCI Raildata to everyone in the global rail industry

The long wait has paid off: in the new online shop of SCI Verkehr GmbH, in addition to the well-known MultiClient Studies, new formats such as market reports, factsheets and excel documents are available now.

Only 0.2% of all buses in Europe are electrified. At 0.4%, Germany is even above the European average, but China shows what is possible.

A key result of this study: dynamic growth of 8% per annum in the OEM market is expected over the next five years.

The Chinese market entry in Europe by purchasing their own production facility is not a surprise, but rather overdue.

Despite climate commitments and decarbonization strategies of the EU and national states, the European market for electric locomotives can be characterised as rather mixed than dynamic.

Growth of the ETCS market is expected to accelerate between 2018 and 2023 with an average development of almost +5% p.a..

For the next five years an annual increase in demand of about 3% is expected, even though there currently is already a high market volume.

SCI RAILDATA now meets the individual reader needs even more than before. SCI Verkehr GmbH has added a new function to its extensive knowledge platform.

In 2017, the rail freight performance on the European rail network almost reached the performance level of its pre-crisis years.

The Chinese market for railway technology will remain at a high level over the next five years but will not grow further.

Merger plans such as those of Siemens and Alstom or General Electric (GE) and the leading railway supplier Wabtec are keeping the rail industry and the antitrust authorities in suspense.

The global market for railway technology is seeing a stronger growth course, with a current market volume of EUR 183 billion and an expected annual growth rate of 2.8%.

The market for railway technology products and services in Africa and the Middle East is forging ahead. By 2022, an average annual growth of 4% is expected, compared to 2017.

At the 2018 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Maria Leenen, CEO of SCI Verkehr GmbH, delivered the keynote talk for the business forum on the subject of east-west transport services.

With an annual growth rate of about 9%, the global OEM market for regional and suburban multiple units is one of the most dynamic product segments in the railway sector.

The worldwide market volume for the maintenance of rail vehicles is currently 6% higher than that for new vehicles, following positive developments in recent years.

The current market volume is c. EUR 10 billion, and will grow with a CAGR of 3-4% per year up to 2022.