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On 6 June 2024, at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, a mock-up of the interior of the new carriage for "Aurora" train to be operated by FPK, was presented at the RZD stand. 

On 19 June 2024, ČD announced that, following the consequences of the accident in Pardubice on 5 June, it proceeded to extraordinary inspections of its Class Bcmz⁸³⁴ couchette cars.

Deutsche Bahn's end-of-life vehicles are still in demand.

On 9 August 2023 Trenitalia signed a framework contract with a consortium comprising Škoda Transportation and Titagarh Firema for the supply of up to 370 carriages for the Intercity Notte night trains.

ŽOS Vrútky presented in Berlin a Bdmpz second class coach for Slovak railways. The latter has ordered in total 17 cars of this type.

Siemens Mobility will expand its manufacturing footprint by building a 220 million USD advanced manufacturing and rail services facility in Lexington, NC.

H. Cegielski - Fabryka Pojazdów Szynowych presented in Berlin a second-class passenger coach of Type 177A-10 for PKP Intercity.

Double-Deckers For VR’s IC Daytime Services.

On 18 January 2023, VR-Yhtymä (VR Group) ordered nine double-decker sleeper cars ("kaksikerroksiset makuuvaunut", where the first word means "double-deck" in plural form, and the second  "sleeping cars") and eight double-deck car-carriers ("autovaunut") from Škoda Group.

On 29 January 2023 Mohamed Amer, head of Egyptian National Railways, and Sergo Kurbanov, vice president of Transmashholding, signed a package of agreements providing for the maintenance organisation of coaches supplied by Russian-Hungarian consortium under the contract concluded in 2018.

In connection with the purchase of 537 coaches from Stadler for KTZ, the passenger cars for ADY were also mentioned.

On 2 February 2023, the Škoda Group announced that it had established a new subsidiary, Škoda Group Austria GmbH.

On 18 January 2023, VR ordered nine double-deck sleepers and eight car-carrier wagons worth around 50 million EUR from Škoda Transtech.

On 14 December 2022, KTZ and Stadler signed three contracts of a total worth 2.3 billion EUR.

On 24 October 2022, a presentation of the new brand and offer of night travel - ČD Night - took place at Praha main station.