UK: The Railway Industry Association has announced changes at its Exports Leadership Group, which enables members to share their experiences and work with RIA’s Exports and Trade Policy teams to gain advice and support on selling their products and services abroad.

SWEDEN: Wabtec has announced a US$960m definitive agreement to acquire Dellner Couplers from EQT, saying the deal adds ‘highly attractive and complementary technologies’ to its passenger rolling stock component portfolio.

UK: Five CEOs of members of the RailFreightForward coalition of rail freight operators recently met EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas to discuss challenges including a lack of high-quality cross-border infrastructure capacity, an uneven economic level playing field and investments in digital technology.