Green Cargo
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Government-owned | |
Industry | Logistics |
Founded | 1 January 2001 (1856) |
Headquarters | Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden |
Key people | Jan Kilström (CEO), Lennart Pihl (chairman) |
Products |
Rail Transport Maintenance |
Revenue | SEK (2012) 4.6 billion |
Number of employees | 2,300 |
Subsidiaries | part-owned DB Schenker Rail Scandinavia A/S |
Website | Homepage |
Green Cargo AB is a Swedish logistics company transporting various types of goods by train.[1] It was created on 1 January 2001 out of the logistics division of Statens Järnvägar (SJ) and became a government-owned limited company.[1]
Green Cargo operates SJ Rc-class locomotives; 42 are being refurbished and upgraded to "Rd" class by Bombardier Transportation.[2] Green Cargo have purchased 16 Bombardier TRAXX locomotives, named Re by Green Cargo.
Gallery
- Rc4 1169 in blue livery
- Rc4 1317 in green livery
- Rc4 1290 in original SJ orange livery
- Green Cargo pallet seen at a Canadian Ikea store.
See also
- SJ AB - public transport
- SeaRail - part-owned by Green Cargo; operating freight waggons between Sweden and Finland
- Cargonet AS - partly owned
References
- 1 2 "Green Cargo AB". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 September 2010. (subscription required)
- ↑ "Railway Gazette: Modernised locomotives handed over to Green Cargo". Retrieved 2010-11-28.
External links
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- Green Cargo - Official site
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