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With the introduction of the new freight operations management system, the international transport and logistics company Operail is taking a major step forward in the digitalisation of rail freight transport,...
...of Applied Sciences, as well as rail freight company Operail, and passenger train transport company Elron. It may seem peculiar that the 360 academic hours of general locomotive driver training...
...believes that there is no point in digitisation for the sake of digitisation, and it is important to schedule the acquisition and introduction of new technologies in such a manner...
...the only open-top passenger wagon in Estonia.” Historically, open-top passenger wagons have been used on narrow-gauge railways, for example on Saaremaa and on Naissaar Island. “We got the idea to...
...sender and the receiver consultation on special transport conditions, review and coordination of transport schemes, commission-based acceptance of cargo, coordination of transport schemes with other 1520 mm railways, and certification...
...of an armoured train consisting of a hospital wagon, an infantry machine gun wagon, an assault wagon and an artillery wagon,” explained Rain Johanson, Director of the Repairs Business Unit...
...Commodity origin Route Departure station Destination station Wagon and ownership Total volume Volume (tons per month, annually) Cargo in the wagon (in tons) Planned start date of the transportation ...
...basis of secondary education; 3) has presented a certificate on having passed a medical examination; 4) has passed an examination for locomotive drivers. Additional information: Leonid Vätson Instructor and locomotive...
...education; has presented a certificate on having passed a medical examination; has passed an examination for locomotive drivers. Additional information: Leonid Vätson Instructor and locomotive driver +372 501 6726 leonid.vatson@operail.com...
...process. We are moving full steam ahead and hope that soon the new, efficient, and versatile C30-M locomotive will also be approved for one-person operation,” said Kurvits. Operail’s Tapa depot...
...Deputy Director General and Freight Transportation Director, Svetlana Berga, Chairwoman of the Management Board of a subsidiary of Latvian Railways LDZ Cargo, Eduards Cernavskis, Member of the Board of a...
...contributed a lot to the digitalisation of processes and implementation of new, innovative solutions. One of the greatest initiatives of Operail has been creating an internal inquiry system which would...
...revenue of the company decreased by 14%, reaching 65.1 million euros. EBITDA dropped 13% to 14.8 million euros and the net profit of the company was 2.7 million euros, compared...
...a quarter million euros and begin the construction of a pilot locomotive so that after the testing period, we could implement the same technology on all of our freight locomotives,”...
...year now. “In the first phase, we will invest nearly 50 million euros for the acquisition of rolling stock and the creation of the necessary structure for the operation of...
...part of the retrofit, the diesel gensets that power the locomotives will be replaced by a zero-emission powertrain consisting of polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries. After the conversion, the...
...operation are freight transport, the construction and repairing of locomotives, and the rental of rolling stock. The company employs nearly 600 people. In addition to the parent company AS Operail,...
...indicative offer for the acquisition of assets or shareholdings in companies based on the initial information shared. Based on the indications received in the first stage, the professional adviser and...
...and tense sales process which involved negotiations with several companies, Operail concluded a sales contract with two subsidiaries of ATASU, one of the largest groups of logistics companies in Kazakhstan,...
...out the important role of trains in the history of our country and community. The engines will give an attention signal when entering a station, in the station and when...
...year was the transport of Sampo Rosenlew’s combine harvesters: “A total of 48 disassembled combine harvesters were brought from Finland to the port of Paldiski by 75 trucks. In cooperation...
...Operail’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the three quarters of 2019 were a record high of 13.2 million euros. The company exceeded its result for the...
...is also open to us,” said Toomsalu. C30-M locomotives are assembled by Operail using the frame and chassis of the C30-7A locomotive, manufactured by the international company General Electric, and...
...has been caused by sanctions against Russia and the end of non-sanctioned Russian freight, the problem now is the high cost price of rail transport in Estonia compared to both...
...company whose main lines of business are freight transport, repair and construction of locomotives and wagons, and rolling stock rental. The company employs almost 600 people. In addition to the...
...environment to become more responsible and sustainable. In addition to the companies under the administration of the Ministry of Economics and Communication, the ministry also invited all other state-owned businesses...
...continue intensive development of the wagon rental business line,” said Raul Toomsalu, Chairman of the Management Board of Operail. Together with the new wagons, the size of the combined wagon...
...latest. The decision does not concern the cross-border return of empty wagons which have arrived in Estonia before the end of the freight operation. We are willing to answer any...
...44 million euros and wagon rental revenue by 160 per cent to 6.3 million euros. The group’s EBITDA was 12 million euros, compared to three million euros from the previous...
...transporting freight in autumn.” Operail is an Estonian state-owned railway company whose main areas of operation are freight transport, the construction and repairing of locomotives and railway carriages and the...
The international transport and logistics company Operail, which has lost over half of its freight volumes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reported a loss of 1.6 million euros...
...balance, and provides fair compensation. The code of ethics also delves deeply into our principles of business ethics, which include substantial and ethical leadership, fair competition, strict anti-corruption policies, protection...
...wagon rental and the repair and modernisation of the rolling stock,” added Toomsalu. The Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson said that she is happy that the state-owned...
After nearly a year of test drives and administrative processes, the Finnish Transport and Communication Agency Traficom granted the permission for the first C30-MF locomotive constructed in Operail’s depot in...
...the same period of the previous year. In terms of product groups, compared to the previous year, the transportation of chemical products has increased and the transportation of mineral fuels...
...Finnish publicly traded logistics company Nurminen Logistics. The sales price is 27.7 million euros as the result of the sales process competition. A contract of purchase and sale which was...
International transport and logistics company Operail carried a record quantity of non-standard freight for clients last year. Based on Operail statistics, the company drafted 20 per cent more loading schemes...
...installed cameras to improve the driver’s field of vision,” explained the head of Operail. “Single-person operation is common practice for passenger trains and is a widespread practice for freight services...
...on the Muuga-Kaunas-Muuga route will be offered twice a week. When exactly the scheduled rides begin, depends on the results of today’s test ride. “This will happen as soon as...
...helps make social responsibility a part of the daily operations of more and more Estonian companies. In Estonia, the Responsible Business Index is the only sustainable development management tool and...
Ksenia Zahharenkova, the Head of Freight Transport Processes at Operail, has been selected as one of the five finalists in the freight category in the prestigious transport and logistics competition...
...Operail Leasing. As a result of the auction, the wagons were sold to six Estonian companies and one company from Kazakhstan. The total amount of these transactions was 22.7 million...
...its operating revenue by 2% (EUR 37.7 million); with the biggest increase in sales revenue coming from income relating to rolling stock. “By the end of the first half of...
...by a collective effort of all road users. “Ensuring rail safety is our common goal that requires well thought-through and coordinated action by all parties. One essential element in ensuring...
...6.4 million euros. The company’s net profit in the first six months was 1.8 million euros; in 2019, it was 5.5 million euros. However, Operail’s wagon rental business displayed a...
Since April 23, 2024, Sander Salmu has replaced Andres Lindemann as AS Operail´s Supervisory Board member. Andres Lindemann, the Head of Rail Baltica Division in the Ministry of Climate of...
...Saar and Tarmo Porgand by three years from May 24, 2024. He proposed to re-elect Kaido Saar as the chairman of the Supervisory Board of AS Operail. Therefore, from May...
...about which gear position, speed, and driving style to choose to make transporting freight even more efficient. Operail’s team achieved the 2nd place in the tight competition of the hackathon...
On 26 September, a large-scale training exercise on rail accidents will be organised in the area of the Kopli Freight Station and Telliskivi Creative City in Tallinn. The aim of...
...490th place. Äripäev has been compiling the list of top 100 most successful Estonian companies for 26 years. The ranking was compiled based on six economic indicators: turnover in 2018,...
...in freight transport, and about the company’s plans for the construction of the hydrogen locomotive. “A hydrogen locomotive is not impossible in Estonia! The question is how much hydrogen can...
...said Raul Toomsalu, Chairman of the Board of Operail. Operail’s operating income in 2018 was 72.7 million euros and EBITDA was 15.7 million euros, compared with the previous year’s figures...
Finantsuudised.ee asked Paul Lukka, Chief Financial Officer of Operail to reflect on the most difficult decisions of the past year and share his thoughts on sustainable business and corporate social...
...on the railroad will be followed by a period of tuning, testing and certification. “The LNG freight locomotive is one of our focus projects in making rail transport, which is...
Today marks the start of the auction process to divest Operail of all business segments. The sales process is carried out by the investment banking unit of LHV Bank, the...
On 3 April, members of the safety commission of the CIS Council for Railway Transport paid a visit to their Estonian colleagues and discovered Operail’s Muuga depot. The 35-member delegation...
...certified European maintenance and repair company for wagons. “ECM, which stands for “entity in charge of maintenance”, is a European Union certificate which confirms that Operail has the competence and...
...privatisation of Operail 1.5 years ago. It was decided to privatise those business directions that are non-strategic and operate without market failure: the rental business of wagons, the locomotive construction...
...capacity of 20.2 million cbm. Operail is an international transport and logistics company whose main areas of operation are freight transport, the construction and repairing of locomotives, and the rental...
...submitted her resignation request on March 11. Minister of Climate Kristen Michal, the representative of the sole shareholder of AS Operail, confirmed Liivamägi’s wish on March 19, recalling her from...
...for the cost of using the station’s infrastructure which depends on the number of wagons and is fixed at a rate per wagon. This fee applies to each wagon that...
The international transport and logistics company Operail showed strong growth in the first half of 2021 and increased its net profit by one million euros. Compared to the same period...
...an American locomotive to haul 12 wagonloads of logs. An average of 55 cubic meters of wood per wagon According to Teemar Kont, business manager of Lignator Logistics, one wagon...
...years. Chairman of the Supervisory Board Kuldar Leis strongly supports the extension of the current management board’s term of office. “The decline in Russian transit forced Operail to operate in...
The Estonian state-owned railway company Operail sold its rental wagons located in Ukraine. 20 companies participated in the competition and the best was the combination of two participants – companies...
...of one million tons of goods in Finland. In the wagon lease department, 94% of wagons were covered by contracts by the end of 2021. In 2021, the group invested...
...remove a line of commercial vehicles of almost 440 kilometres from traffic – this is the distance between Tallinn to Šiauliai,” says Toomsalu. For comparison, Operail’s longest multimodal container train...
...after Jakob Roplik, who was the manager of Tapa station in 1940-1941. Ants, which is awaiting registration in Finland, is named after Ants Kurvits, who managed the Tapa station from...
...a former member of the management board of Operail who played an important role in the operation of Operail in Finland. The first C30-M(F) locomotive, named Jakob and built at...
...profit. “Our revenue from wagon rental increased by 65% compared to last year, amounting to 2.9 million euros in the first quarter this year. The growth of the wagon rental...
...a joint effort on the part of all three Baltic States to boost the volume of intermodal carriage,” explained Raul Toomsalu, chairman of the management board of EVR Cargo. “Moving...
...for the first six months of the current year. However, the company’s financial position remains robust thanks to income earned from the sale of non-strategic assets. The management is now...
...45,000 tonnes of peat, and 38,000 tonnes of sawn timber were transported via rail. Last year, Operail introduced a new information system that made the provision of multimodal freight services...
...On 4 January, the collective agreement was signed by Raul Toomsalu, Chairman of the Operail Board; Oleg Tšubarov, Chairman of the Estonian Railway Workers’ Union; and Raivo Romm, Chairman of...
...able to reduce road traffic by 6,000 truckloads’ worth of grain, which is a threefold increase compared to last year,’ said Urmas Peterson, Head of Multimodal Transport at Operail. ‘Grain...
...in May 2022 as a member of the board of the wagon rental business, Operail’s subsidiary AS Operail Leasing. In November of the same year, she became a member of...
...the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that there are as many as 28 such companies. According to Raul Toomsalu, Chairman of the Management Board of Operail, the company...
...that all companies associated with Operail have the same group identity,” said Chairman of the Operail Management Board, Raul Toomsalu. “We would like to emphasise that company name is the...
The operating profit of the Operail Group in the first quarter of 2021 increased by more than 30%, reaching 1.4 million euros compared to the same period last year; EBITDA...
...8,000 truck journeys on the main highways of our country. Transporting goods by railway instead of on the roads reduces the ecological footprint of the transport sector and increases road...
...proceed with the plan. Yesterday, on February 15th, the government made a substantive decision during the cabinet meeting. They proposed the full privatization or divestment of Operail, which is a...
...proceed with the plan. Yesterday, on February 15th, the government made a substantive decision during the cabinet meeting. They proposed the full privatization or divestment of Operail, which is a...
...the same period of the previous year. While income from freight transport decreased by 21%, dropping to 26.5 million euros, income from wagon rental increased by 21% from the same...
...delayed decision on a railcar rental business, the overall annual result will still be unprofitable. “The growth of customer confidence in the high quality of transportation services and the increase...
...three quarters despite the volatile economic environment,” commented Raul Toomsalu, Chairman of the Management Board of Operail. By the end of the third quarter of 2021, Operail’s net profit was...
...company has thereby improved safety on Estonian highways and preserved the environment. “At the end of summer last year, we started with six containers on the Tartu-Muuga line; today, we...
Our Chairman of the Board Raul Toomsalu visited Ettevõtlusraadio studio and spoke about our new projects and how new solutions can increase the efficiency of the company. The aim of...
...to Raul Toomsalu, Chairman of the Management Board of Operail, the decisions made a few years ago to invest in the company’s expansion are the basis of the company’s good...
...built for the 100th anniversary of the Estonian War of Independence, complete with sanitary, machine gun, landing, and artillery wagons. Thanks to long and thorough preparations, construction of the four...
The structure of Operail Group has changed as of 1 July 2021, with two new subsidiaries added to our Group. The Group’s parent company AS Operail will in the future...
...additional information, based on which they can submit a binding purchase offer. Today’s decision by the Cabinet creates the prerequisite for conducting detailed negotiations with companies upon receiving binding offers...
...at the end of the year. From 2023 onwards, these lines of business no longer exist. Last year, the combined turnover of all businesses of Operail amounted to 61 million...
...powers of supervisory board member Siret Liivamägi by one year from June 1st. With the same decision of the sole shareholder, the minister confirmed Kaido Saar as the Chairman of...
From 22 June, the new business name of the state-owned transport and logistics company EVR Cargo is Operail. The change of the name and visual identity was driven by the...
...1.8 million euros into profits of almost five million euros,” said Chairman of the Operail Board, Raul Toomsalu, releasing the financial results. The Group’s EBITDA has increased fivefold compared with...
...by rail, the ecological footprint of the freight is significantly smaller, and road safety also increases on our roads,” said Peterson, explaining the benefits of rail transport. According to Peterson,...
...only this one time where we noticed that the harsh weather had damaged one of the wagons and its roof was leaking a little. We properly fixed that and there...
...load of 23 tonnes, and it is equipped with a 1,550 kW (2,079 hp) Caterpillar 3512C HD diesel engine and has a top speed of 100 kilometres per hour. https://operail.com/en/c30-mlocomotive/...
On 18 March, Operail handed over an old rail tanker to the Rescue Board in Tapa. The latter intends to use it for testing various explosives. Estonia does not have...
...the areas of activity of Operail. We also took part of the Logistics Seminar organised by the students of Tallinn University of Applied Sciences on 5 March. In addition, we...
...in line with the European Green Deal, one of the main goals of which is to direct 75% of the volume of road transport to trains and ships. “Switching from...
...freight volumes, the operating income of Operail decreased from 55 million euros to 42 million euros compared to the same period last year. The group was in a loss of...
...is the leading railway company of Estonia, whose main business lines are carriage of goods, engine and wagon repair and construction, and wagon rent. 650 people work in the company....
...million tonnes) of which transit made up 71%. Most of the freight transported by rail was fertilisers (6.1 million tonnes) and mineral fuels (3.5 million tonnes). “We forecast the 2020...
...the company’s new logo, an ever-turning wheel, represents the organisation’s 150 years of experience on the railways as well as the continued pursuit for excellence, says the chairman of the...
...largest cereal grain harvest in the history of Estonia. Based on the estimate by the Ministry of Rural Affairs, by the end of the harvesting period, 99% of sown area...
...directions, which locomotive construction undoubtedly is,” said Chairman of the Operail Board, Raul Toomsalu. “As a result of this reorganisation, we will suspend wagon repairs at the Tapa depot and...
...significantly better than expected. “Current profit is supported by strong results in the railway transportation and better than predicted results in wagon rental operations. The contribution of the wagon repairs...
Yesterday, at the Annual Logistics Conference, Operail’s project for multimodal freight transport was declared winner of the Logistics Project of the Year competition organised by the logistics news department of...
...price and terms of services, we will conclude a project-based contract. The offered prices depend on the volume of the goods, the route, and the timing of the haulage. The...
On 14 February, the parties carried out the last steps necessary for the sale of Operail Finland. The ownership of the company was transferred to the new owner, North Rail,...
...and bases of public speaking. Promotion of rail safety is at the heart of our company. With the help of the new ambassadors of safety, Operail can now reach even...
27 May was the last working day of Paul Lukka, a long-term member of the management board and chief financial officer of AS Operail. “My time in the railway sector,...
Operail supported the repairs of the roof of the Lavassaare Museum Railway’s depot building with 15,000 euros to create better conditions for the preservation of rare exhibits. “The presentation and...
Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson, who today visited the Tartu loading yard of the railway and logistics company Operail, confirmed that the current shifting trend of moving...
On 14 February, at the proposal of the nomination committee, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Riina Sikkut confirmed former Member of the Supervisory Board Kaido Saar the new...
We hereby inform customers of two changes to the organisation of Operail’s operation related to the significant reduction of freight volumes and the resulting need to adapt to the new...
...Operail. The discussion, which lasted almost an hour, covered our plans for the future, construction of locomotives, carriage of freight, digitalisation, renting of wagons, and a lot more. The show...
...also be used to report abuse of the employer’s property or unacceptable use of information which concerns the employer. The report sent will reach directly and only our controller. Operail...
...– we will do our best to find a solution for you! To book a wagon on a scheduled train and to enquire about fares, please contact us at sales@operail.com....
...tones. We respect the tradition of naming new locomotives and have chosen the honourable employees of Tapa station as the godfathers of locomotives. The locomotive Otto is named after the...