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Operail OÜ

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Type
National operator — privately owned freight railway undertaking, registry code 17093388, registered at Peterburi tee 2f, 11415 Tallinn, share capital EUR 1,000; it was entered in the business register on 17 October 2024 and its invalid earlier business names are RailProject OÜ and ViroState OÜ. It is the company that took over the freight and repair business of the state company AS Operail — that legal entity, registry code 11575850, survives under the name AS Raudtee Varad — the business passing to the new owner on 10 December 2024, and it describes itself as a company based on Estonian ownership continuing on the railway as a private company from December 2024. Its register status as the business register published it on 14 September 2026 is 'Registrisse kantud', entered in the register. The same record carries the register's flag that the legal person has unfiled annual reports: the report for the period 17 October 2024 to 31 December 2025 is shown as 'Esitamata', not filed, against a deadline of 30 June 2026. The record also prints the line 'Juriidilise isiku kohta on avaldatud väljaandes Ametlikud Teadaanded teade kustutamise kohta' — a notice concerning deletion has been published about the legal person — but the same register view prints that line on the records of AS Eesti Raudtee and Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts as well, the record's own Ametlikud Teadaanded panel is empty under the line 'Ametlike Teadaannete kontroll ebaõnnestus' (the Ametlikud Teadaanded check failed), and a search of Ametlikud Teadaanded for registry code 17093388 on the same day returns two 2024 merger-control notices from Konkurentsiamet and no notice of deletion
Market · Region
European Union · Estonia
Open tenders
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Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations

Carries freight on Estonian railways, rents locomotives and wagons, and maintains rolling stock.

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Operail carries freight on the Estonian public railway, rents wagons and locomotives, maintains and repairs rolling stock and builds locomotives; its published fleet is 38 locomotives of the C30-M, C36-7i and TEM TMH types together with tank, open, covered and flat wagons. It holds a freight licence from Konkurentsiamet. Eesti Raudtee's 2025 annual report records that Operail carried 36 per cent of the 2.87 million tonnes moved on the Eesti Raudtee network in 2025, against 54 per cent in 2024. The state retained the former legal entity as AS Raudtee Varad, registry code 11575850, a company under the Ministry of Climate's administration which does no active business, has no employees, and holds Russian-owned open wagons that are frozen assets which sanctions forbid returning to Russia or buying out.

Type
National operator — privately owned freight railway undertaking, registry code 17093388, registered at Peterburi tee 2f, 11415 Tallinn, share capital EUR 1,000; it was entered in the business register on 17 October 2024 and its invalid earlier business names are RailProject OÜ and ViroState OÜ. It is the company that took over the freight and repair business of the state company AS Operail — that legal entity, registry code 11575850, survives under the name AS Raudtee Varad — the business passing to the new owner on 10 December 2024, and it describes itself as a company based on Estonian ownership continuing on the railway as a private company from December 2024. Its register status as the business register published it on 14 September 2026 is 'Registrisse kantud', entered in the register. The same record carries the register's flag that the legal person has unfiled annual reports: the report for the period 17 October 2024 to 31 December 2025 is shown as 'Esitamata', not filed, against a deadline of 30 June 2026. The record also prints the line 'Juriidilise isiku kohta on avaldatud väljaandes Ametlikud Teadaanded teade kustutamise kohta' — a notice concerning deletion has been published about the legal person — but the same register view prints that line on the records of AS Eesti Raudtee and Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts as well, the record's own Ametlikud Teadaanded panel is empty under the line 'Ametlike Teadaannete kontroll ebaõnnestus' (the Ametlikud Teadaanded check failed), and a search of Ametlikud Teadaanded for registry code 17093388 on the same day returns two 2024 merger-control notices from Konkurentsiamet and no notice of deletion
Where
Estonia · Tallinn
Programmes
TEN-T
Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations

Structure

  • regulated by Estonian Competition Authority — Konkurentsiamet issues the freight railway undertaking licence; its published register lists Operail OÜ among eleven freight licence holders (active)
Sources for these relationships (2)
  • ● Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) · Raudtee — tegevusload, and the register itself at /sites/default/files/documents/2026-05/Raudtee tegevusload alates 01.2026.pdf: infrastructure manager licences RA-IML-003 of 8 May 2002 to Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts (to 19 March 2020 Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS) and 01-1 of 27 March 2009 to AS Eesti Raudtee; passenger licences RA-RVL-002 of 30 December 1999 to AS Eesti Liinirongid and 02-1 of 26 June 2006 to AS GoRail, the latter suspended until 2 September 2027; and eleven freight licences, including 03-10 of 27 March 2009 held by Operail OÜ, which the register annotates as AS Operail until 9 December 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Riigi Teataja (State Gazette of Estonia) · Raudteeseadus (Railway Act), consolidated text RT I, 19.02.2026, 2, in force from 1 March 2026, read through the gazette's own back-end at https://www.riigiteataja.ee/public-api/api/v1/akt/119022026002/blob-html because the public page is a JavaScript application. Section 73(1)–(2): the Ministry of Climate draws up the action plan guiding the development of the public railway infrastructure and the Government approves it for at least five years. Section 106: TTJA determines the infrastructure charge and mark-ups and collects the charges. Section 108(1)–(2): Konkurentsiamet monitors the competitive situation on the rail services market and 'on ka reguleeriv asutus Euroopa Parlamendi ja nõukogu direktiivi 2012/34/EL tähenduses'. Section 143(1) lists six supervisory bodies; 143(3) gives Konkurentsiamet accounting separation, the licences in section 12(1) points 1–3 and complaints under section 109; 143(4)–(5) gives TTJA the upkeep of structures and rolling stock, safety management system supervision, the licences in section 12(1) points 4–5, the driver chapter, the interoperability chapter and supervision of single safety certificates and of the trackside control-command and signalling, energy and infrastructure subsystems under Article 17 of Directive (EU) 2016/798; 143(6) limits Transpordiamet to checking compliance with the requirements set for railway undertakings having regard to section 7, which applies Regulation (EU) 2021/782 on rail passenger rights (published 2026-03-01 · checked 2026-09-13)

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  • Award history (2)
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  • Portals (2)
  • Published contacts (5)

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  • ● Operail OÜ · About the company — 'An Estonian capital based railway company with international reach – we transport goods, maintain and repair rolling stock, and build locomotives'; 38 locomotives of the C30-M, C36-7i and TEM TMH types; the government decided in February 2024 to divest all business segments and the sale to AS Tiigi Keskus completed on 31 October, with Operail continuing on the railway as a private company from December 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Operail OÜ · Contacts — Operail OÜ, registry code 17093388, Peterburi tee 2F, 11415 Tallinn; info@operail.com, +372 615 7600, sales@operail.com, accounting@operail.com; the page also lists named individuals, which are not reproduced (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Kliimaministeerium (Ministry of Climate) · Liikuvus — Raudtee — AS Raudtee Varad: the ministry's own account of the privatisation of the state freight operator. Until December 2024 the group carried freight on Estonian railways and maintained and repaired rolling stock under the name AS Operail; it left wagon leasing and Finnish freight by the owner's decision by the start of 2023; in February 2024 the government decided to privatise the remaining business lines; the two-stage auction opened on 7 June 2024, the best binding bid was made by the Estonian company AS Tiigi Keskus, the sale and purchase agreement was signed on 31 October 2024 and the business together with the subsidiary Operail Repairs OÜ passed to the new owner on 10 December 2024. The legal entity left with the state, AS Raudtee Varad (registry code 11575850) and its subsidiary RV Leasing Finland Oy, does no active business, has no employees, and holds Russian-owned open wagons that are frozen assets which sanctions forbid returning to Russia or buying out (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Raudtee · Aastaraamat 2025 (annual report, audited by AS PricewaterhouseCoopers) — 146 pages: revenue EUR 31.2m, EBITDA EUR 37.2m, investment EUR 142.1m, 704 employees, 2.87 million tonnes of freight carried on the network, 6.59 million passengers on Eesti Raudtee infrastructure and 7.66 million in Estonia, 5.16 million passenger train-km, 1,709 million gross tonne-km of which 892 million freight, and EUR 140.7m of investment planned for 2026 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Raudtee · Ärikliendile — business-client page carrying the Hanked (procurement) section, the infrastructure-access section and the list of railway undertakings and station service partners (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) · Raudtee — tegevusload, and the register itself at /sites/default/files/documents/2026-05/Raudtee tegevusload alates 01.2026.pdf: infrastructure manager licences RA-IML-003 of 8 May 2002 to Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts (to 19 March 2020 Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS) and 01-1 of 27 March 2009 to AS Eesti Raudtee; passenger licences RA-RVL-002 of 30 December 1999 to AS Eesti Liinirongid and 02-1 of 26 June 2006 to AS GoRail, the latter suspended until 2 September 2027; and eleven freight licences, including 03-10 of 27 March 2009 held by Operail OÜ, which the register annotates as AS Operail until 9 December 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Statistikaamet (Statistics Estonia) · Table TS1420, passenger and freight traffic on railways, read through the PxWeb API at https://andmed.stat.ee/api/v1/en/stat/TS1420: passengers 8,373.1 thousand in 2019 falling to 7,678.7 thousand in 2025; passenger-km 391,688 thousand in 2019 and 342,403.2 thousand in 2025; goods carried 21,340.9 thousand tonnes in 2019 and 6,174.9 thousand tonnes in 2025; freight turnover 2,160,293.2 thousand tonne-km in 2019 and 485,205.6 thousand tonne-km in 2025. The two public-railway sub-series stop after 2022 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● European Union — Tenders Electronic Daily · TED Search API v3, POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search — the interface through which every TED notice cited in this file was read (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Republic of Estonia — e-Äriregister (e-Business Register) · Operail OÜ, registry code 17093388: legal form osaühing, status 'Registrisse kantud' (entered in the register), entered 17 October 2024, share capital EUR 1,000, address Peterburi tee 2f, 11415 Tallinn, articles amended 2 January 2025, invalid business names RailProject OÜ and ViroState OÜ. The record carries the register flag 'Juriidilisel isikul on esitamata majandusaasta aruandeid' and shows the 17 October 2024 to 31 December 2025 annual report as 'Esitamata' against a deadline of 30 June 2026; it also prints the line 'Juriidilise isiku kohta on avaldatud väljaandes Ametlikud Teadaanded teade kustutamise kohta', which the same register view prints on the records of AS Eesti Raudtee (11575838) and Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts (10786958) as well, and its own Ametlikud Teadaanded panel is empty under the line 'Ametlike Teadaannete kontroll ebaõnnestus' (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Ametlikud Teadaanded (Official Announcements, Republic of Estonia) · Public notice search (POST /avalik/otsing, o__search_term). A search for registry code 17093388 on 14 September 2026 returns two notices, both published by Konkurentsiamet — the merger notification of 1 November 2024 (announcement 2379067) and the merger decision of 28 November 2024 (announcement 2391087), by which RailProject OÜ, registry code 17093388, could acquire decisive influence over parts of AS Operail (11575850), Operail Holding OÜ (16234361) and AS Operail Leasing (14251485) and over Operail Repairs OÜ (16235461) — and no notice of deletion (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

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