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Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s.

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Type
National operator — state-owned joint-stock company, founded 1 January 2005; the Slovak Republic is founder and sole shareholder
Market · Region
European Union · Slovakia
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Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Signalling & train control

Slovakia's sole nationwide freight rail carrier operating trunk and regional lines, fitting ERTMS/ETCS to 23 locomotives.

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The only network-wide rail freight carrier on the Slovak market, running on the trunk and all regional lines, with vehicle leasing, maintenance and repair and cargo transhipment as adjacent businesses; it is fitting ERTMS/ETCS to 23 freight locomotives under the Connecting Europe Facility award of July 2025.

Type
National operator — state-owned joint-stock company, founded 1 January 2005; the Slovak Republic is founder and sole shareholder
Where
Slovakia · Bratislava
Programmes
Connecting Europe Facility, ERTMS / ETCS
Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Signalling & train control

Structure

  • controlled by MD SR — ZSSK CARGO was founded on 1 January 2005 with the Slovak Republic as founder and sole shareholder, under the transport ministry's rail remit (active · since 2005-01-01)
Sources for these relationships (2)
  • ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Železničná doprava — the ministry's rail section: state administration of railways, infrastructure operation contracts, public service transport contracts, rail liberalisation and the special building authority for railway structures (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s. · O spoločnosti — founded 1 January 2005, the Slovak Republic is founder and sole shareholder, the only network-wide rail freight carrier on the Slovak market (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)

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  • Award history (2)
  • Entry path
  • Portals (1)
  • Published contacts (2)

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  • ● Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s. · O spoločnosti — founded 1 January 2005, the Slovak Republic is founder and sole shareholder, the only network-wide rail freight carrier on the Slovak market (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s. · Obstarávanie a nákup — purchasing department (oddelenie nákupu), desk cargo.s32@zscargo.sk, electronic purchasing system (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Slovensko získalo z Bruselu vyše 141 miliónov eur na modernizáciu dopravy — CEF award incl. Vydrník–Spišská Nová Ves modernisation at about EUR 100m, ERTMS/ETCS on 23 ZSSK CARGO freight locomotives and ETCS on 29 ZSSK passenger vehicles; nearly 8 per cent of the cohesion allocation (published 2025-07-07 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Železnice Slovenskej republiky · Podmienky používania železničnej siete 2027 (network statement, file sietove-vyhlasenie-2027-f.pdf, 84 pages, in force from 14 December 2025 for timetable year 2027, 13 December 2026 to 11 December 2027). Locations for the figures and desks this file draws from it, because the PDF uses subsetted fonts that defeat text extraction: the Kontakty table is in Section 1 (Oddiel 1), printed pages 15 to 19 (PDF pages 16 to 20) — Ministry of Transport and Dopravný úrad desks on printed page 15, ŽSR one-stop shop on 16, CLaO secretariat and the expertise and infrastructure departments on 17, Železničná energetika and Železničné telekomunikácie on 18; the gauge shares are in Section 2 under Rozchod železničných tratí, printed page 25 (PDF page 26); the lines equipped with ETCS are in Section 2 under Systémy riadenia dopravy / Vlakový zabezpečovací systém, printed page 30 (PDF page 31) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● European Union · TED notice 134295-2025 — contract-award notice, Zabezpečenie súboru inžiniersko-projektových činností — the only above-threshold ZSSK CARGO notice in the tracked window; TenderResultCode clos-nw, closed without a winner, at an estimated EUR 591,484 (published 2025-02-28 · checked 2026-09-13)

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