Author: Katharina Henkel

1st Public Transport Workshop 2023

Schwerin 02.02.2023 - The VMV-Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has invited the transport companies of the state, the municipal umbrella organisations, the districts and independent cities to a first Public Transport Workshop 2023 in Rostock. Representatives from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour also took part in the workshop. The topics of the event were the customer-oriented implementation of federal and state policy plans: the...

Deutschlandticket comes as a nationwide subscription!

With the new Deutschlandticket, you can be mobile by bus and train for 49 euros a month - nationwide! After the successful 9-Euro-Ticket in summer, the next step towards a climate-neutral future follows. Our local transport will thus become more easily accessible for everyone and even considerably cheaper for many. As soon as a start date for the new...

Timetable change on 11 December 2022

Press release by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour Meyer: Seasonal services will continue - new ticket to the Kleinseenplatte Schwerin, 11.12.2022 The new 2023 annual timetable for local rail passenger transport (SPNV) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will start on Sunday. "The usual timetable will continue unchanged on most routes in the new timetable year. With the introduction of the Deutschlandticket in the timetable year, we plan to...

The AzubiTicket MV success story continues - over 10,000 users for the first time

Schwerin, 25.11.2022 Since the introduction of the AzubiTicket M-V in February 2021, trainees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have been able to conveniently book the discounted state ticket online. The mobile phone ticket is valid all year round and has already been ordered over 10,000 times. "We are pleased about the great demand and five-digit sales figures for the first time. The state's trainees benefit from a statewide, exclusively digital...

First battery fleet for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Rostock, 25.11.2022 The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Deutsche Bahn (DB) are taking the next step towards emission-free, climate-neutral rail transport. For the first time, DB Regio in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will use battery trains on current diesel lines in the Warnow II network. Reinhard Meyer (Minister for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) launched the project today at Rostock main station together with Daniel Bischof (authorised signatory,...

OSTA award procedure starts

Schwerin, 12 October 2022 The next award procedure for local rail passenger transport (SPNV) starts in autumn. It concerns the regional express line (RE1) with the highest demand in the state. The local rail passenger transport services on the line between Hamburg and Rostock will be tendered in the Ostsee-Alster (OSTA) subnetwork. Together with the neighbouring states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg in northern Germany, the operator of the regional express line...

Trains in the country design

Schwerin 30.09.2022 Travelling by train is more popular than ever before. But how will we travel in the future and what demands will commuters, tourists, families and occasional travellers place on the interior and exterior of vehicles? To address these questions and strengthen local rail passenger transport in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the VMV, together with Landesmarketing M-V and...

Rail Day

DB Netz and VMV in Schwerin on infrastructure projects in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schwerin 16.09.2022, DB Netz and VMV-Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mbH presented themselves on Friday in the historic Fürstenzimmer in the station building at the main station in Schwerin. Interested parties were able to learn about DB Netz AG's infrastructure projects in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and find out about training, study and entry-level opportunities at the Schwerin site....

Public Transport Workshop

Schwerin 12.09.2022 - The VMV-Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has invited the transport companies of the state, the municipal umbrella organisations, the districts and independent cities to a workshop on joint projects in public transport in Rostock. The workshop was attended by State Secretary Ines Jesse from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour and the State Office for Road Construction and Transport....

Award procedure Network North-South

Press release of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour Schwerin, 20 September 2022 The Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association (VBB) has awarded the contract in the Network North-South competition to DB Regio Nordost. The VBB acts as the awarding office and conducted the Netz Nord-Süd competition procedure on behalf of the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt. In the future North-South Network...