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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