GERMANY: Railpool Group has acquired KTG Railservice, which operates a locomotive maintenance workshop at Duisburg inland port. The leasing company now has three workshops in Germany, open to all customers.
KTG founder Carsten Janneck will continue to lead the business as Managing Director. ‘An almost fully equipped workshop, stabling facilities for locomotives and highly motivated service technicians offer our customers a wide range of maintenance options in the heart of the Ruhr region’, he said when the acquisition was announced on July 5.
Railpool CEO Torsten Lehnert said ‘we have a functioning and constantly growing partner workshop network and maintain an extensive spare parts warehouse. However, we believe that our own specialist knowledge as well as comprehensive practical expertise on the vehicle are essential for sustained top service quality. We ultimately pass this knowledge on to our partners so that we can also offer our customers the broadest possible service portfolio in their vicinity at partner locations throughout Europe.
‘With the expansion to our third own workshop, we are taking this basic entrepreneurial value into account.’
