Roughly EUR 190 million will be spent on new freight cars and repairing the existing fleet, a further EUR 167 million will be invested in locomotives. The remaining funds will be spread between various investments in facilities and IT equipment. By the end of the year, some 1472 new freight cars and 71 new locomotives will have been purchased for DB Schenker Rail, including 700 cars specially for coal and steel transports.
During the first half of 2010, DB Schenker Rail succeeded in raising the volume of transported freight to a total of 203 million tons. This was an increase of 58 million tons year-on-year or 40.1 percent. During that same period, traffic performance rose by 8.3 billion to 52.6 billion ton-kilometers, which is equivalent to an increase of 18.8 percent. There were particularly high increases in the transport of iron, ores and scrap metals.