• EUR 100 million CAPEX facility for ordering new locomotives
• Use of a promotional loan from KfW programme 269 (Investment Loan for Sustainable Mobility, individual variant)
• Improves sustainable and climate-friendly freight transport in Germany
• KfW IPEX-Bank acts as facility agent under existing financing platform

Munich, 9 April 2026 – KfW IPEX-Bank acts as an on-lending bank in providing its long-standing client RAILPOOL with a KfW promotional loan in the amount of EUR 100 million. RAILPOOL seeks to acquire additional locomotives as part of KfW Program 269 “Investment Loan for Sustainable Mobility”.

The new CAPEX facility, in which KfW IPEX-Bank functions as the sole lender, is integrated into RAILPOOL’s existing financing platform. On this financing platform, KfW IPEX-Bank already assumes all agency functions.

“It’s a natural thing for us to provide our clients with the entire range of available financing instruments,” said Aida Welker, Member of the Management Board of KfW IPEX-Bank. “That is why we are particularly pleased to be able to support our valued customer RAILPOOL with this KfW promotional loan.”

Ingo Wurzer, CFO of RAILPOOL: “We are looking forward to strengthening our growth by resuming and expanding our long-standing partnership with KfW IPEX-Bank.”

RAILPOOL will primarily use the locomotives procured using the promotional loan in Germany.

Through this financing, KfW IPEX-Bank is supporting the shift of freight transport to rail, thereby contributing to the decarbonisation of the transport sector.

About KfW IPEX-Bank

Within KfW Group, KfW IPEX-Bank is responsible for project and export finance. It supports German and European companies operating in key industrial sectors in global markets by structuring medium and long-term financing for their exports, funding infrastructure investments, securing supply of raw materials and by financing environmental and climate change mitigation projects worldwide.

It finances technologies of the future to support the transformation of its customers and the transition towards sustainable society in all three dimensions – economic, environment and social.

As specialist bank, KfW IPEX-Bank has extensive industry, structuring and country expertise, it takes on leading roles in financing consortia and actively involves other banks, institutional investors and insurance firms. KfW IPEX-Bank operates as a legally independent group subsidiary and is represented in the most important economic and financial centres across the globe.

About RAILPOOL

RAILPOOL is one of the leading rail vehicle leasing companies, offering true expertise in full-service solutions from a single source. The company was founded in Munich in 2008 and now operates in 19 European countries.

With over 600 electric and hybrid locomotives and 148 passenger cars (representing a total investment of 2.7 billion euros), RAILPOOL is one of the largest rail vehicle providers in Europe and makes a significant contribution to shifting traffic to rail. RAILPOOL operates six in-house workshops, maintains a Europe-wide network of partner workshops, and keeps an in-house inventory of over 4,500 different spare parts and components.

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