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Hector Rail was founded in 2004 and is today one of Scandinavia's leading privately owned rail freight operators. With approximately 18,000 departures per year, we deliver tailored and sustainable transport solutions adapted to each customer's needs. Our organizational size enables short decision-making paths and close-knit teams where the customer's interests remain at the centre.
Since the beginning, we have been an independent operator in the Scandinavian rail market, with a strong focus on quality, flexibility and long-term partnerships. Our size enables close customer dialogue, short decision-making paths and dedicated teams where customer needs always remain the priority.
Sustainability is a natural part of our business and is embedded in everything we do. Rail plays a crucial role in the green transition, and we are proud to contribute to the development of more sustainable transport solutions across Europe. With a strong financial foundation, we provide tailored and environmentally friendly rail solutions with the highest standards of quality and execution. To protect the climate, more sustainable rail freight transport is needed.

Each service is backed by our direct-frontier locomotive traction, eliminating delays and terminal swaps at border checkpoints.

Specialized transport of raw timber, logs, and paper pulp with high-capacity equipment built for Nordic forestry.

Seamless combination of trailers and container routes, bridging key freight junctions directly across Sweden and Germany.

Dedicated high-frequency full-train locomotives built exclusively around your heavy-haul industrial volume and schedules.

Safe, high-priority haulage of energy fuel, biomass, scrap, and coal commodities to power generation terminals.

Highly secure, strictly scheduled heavy traction services for defense forces, tactical transport, and government projects.

Specialized hazardous and non-hazardous liquid tank wagon services for chemical, petroleum, and industrial fluids.

High-speed dedicated express locomotive traction and support systems for national passenger rail networks.
To set the standard for excellence through safe, smart, sustainable and efficient rail freight transport solutions across Scandinavia and Europe.
To be the most reliable, innovative and customer-focused rail company in the Scandinavian corridor.
We want to look back on our time at Hector Rail and say: "I was part of changing the rail industry."
Hector Rail has an important and attractive position in the rail freight value chain and a key position in the ScanMed corridor traffic
Hector Rail operates in a critical part of the freight transport value chain and transports customer goods in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.
By maintaining seamless corridors through deep cooperation between Germany and our Central Scandinavian dispatch hubs, we bypass national borders comfortably with a unified traction network.

Sub-zero polar weather thyristor electric locomotive of legendary reliability.
High-speed workhorse for urgent priority block train container services.

Pruned diesel-hydraulic power optimized for complex timber terminals.

Dual-unit cross-border electric traction designed for steep corridor bridge segments.

Leading multi-system electric locomotive crossing state borders smoothly.

Experience ScanMed corridor traction capacity and discover the power of advanced ETCS intermodal rail logistics.
We maintain active railway operator Safety Certifications (Part A and Part B) in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Norway issued by respective transport authorities.
Strictly auditing consistent operational speed, equipment maintenance, and terminal safety.
Our rail logistics operate under strict eco-compliance, targeting minimum emissions footprint.
Directly auditing information security systems, API integrations, and cargo tracking databases to prevent risk.
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Hector Rail AB
Svärdvägen 27
SE-182 33 Danderyd
Switchboard: +46 (0) 8 544 967 20
Hector Rail AB
Fabriksgatan 24
SE – 702 23 Örebro
Hector Rail GmbH
Rottstraße 1-3
44793 Bochum
Deutschland
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