Railcar Leasing Service Market Report 2025

This Railcar Leasing Service market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market’s characteristics, size, and growth, including segmentation, regional and country-level breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends, and strategies. It also tracks historical and forecasted market growth across various geographies.

The railcar leasing service market size has grown strongly in recent years. It will grow from $24.89 billion in 2024 to $26.27 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increase in global freight traffic, growing demand from emerging economies, expansion of supply chain networks, cost-effectiveness, flexibility and scalability.

The railcar leasing service market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $32.14 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to rising demand for transportation of goods and services, growing transportation and logistics industry, increasing need for efficient and cost-effective transportation solutions, increasing demand for railcars, growing environmental concerns. Major trends in the forecast period include technological advancements, outsourcing of non-core activities, product innovation, strategic alliances and partnerships, access to specialist equipment.

The expansion of the transportation and logistics industry is expected to drive the growth of the railcar leasing service market. This industry covers the various processes, systems, and infrastructure required to move, store, and distribute goods and people, across modes such as road, rail, air, and sea. The transportation and logistics sector is growing due to factors like increased globalization, the rise of e-commerce, urbanization, technological innovations, supply chain optimization, and a focus on sustainability. Railcar leasing services offer flexible, cost-efficient solutions for transporting bulk goods over long distances, eliminating the need for companies to make large capital investments in purchasing railcars. For example, in July 2024, Atradius N.V., a Netherlands-based provider of trade credit insurance and related services, projected that global transportation and logistics output would grow by 3.8% in 2024, with a further expected increase of 4% in 2025. As a result, the growth of the transportation and logistics industry is fueling the railcar leasing service market.

Major companies in the railcar leasing service market are concentrating on developing innovative renting and delivery solutions, such as remotely piloted rental car deliveries, which involve using driverless operations to transport rental cars to customers' specified locations. This approach leverages drone technology and automation to streamline the rental car delivery process, providing convenience and efficiency to customers. For instance, in June 2023, Halo.Car, a US-based startup, launched remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas, using a fleet equipped with cameras, modems, antennas, and other components to facilitate remote operation from a central operations center. This innovative model enhances the customer experience by simplifying the rental car delivery process.

In December 2023, American Industrial Transport (AITX) acquired SMBC Rail Services, a move that expands AITX's fleet to over 50,000 railcars and brings new customers and expertise into its rail industry team. SMBC Rail Services is a provider of railcar leasing services based in the US.

Major companies operating in the railcar leasing service market are Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Wells Fargo, Caterpillar Inc., Union Pacific Corporation, CSX Corporation, Canadian National Railway Company, The Greenbrier Companies, CIT Group, Trinity Industries Inc., VTG AG, National Railway Equipment Company, AITX LLC, Chicago Freight Car Leasing Company, Union Tank Car Company, One Rail Australia, GATX Corporation, Ermewa SA, SMBC Rail Services LLC, Southern Shorthaul Railroad Pty. Ltd., Beacon Rail Leasing Ltd., Fenniarail Ltd., Touax Rail Ltd., Brunswick Rail Finance Ltd., Midwest Railcar Corporation.

North America was the largest region in the railcar leasing service market in 2024. The regions covered in the railcar leasing service market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the railcar leasing service market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Railcar leasing services involve providing railcars to companies on a lease or rental basis for transporting goods and commodities. These services offer companies flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and access to a diverse range of railcar options without the need for substantial upfront capital investment in purchasing and maintaining railcar fleets.

The primary types of railcar leasing services include tank cars, freight cars, and others. Tank cars are specialized railroad cars designed for transporting liquids, gases, or other bulk commodities. They offer various leasing options such as full-service leasing, operating leasing, and finance leasing. Tank cars are utilized for freight transportation, intermodal transportation, and specialized applications, catering to industries such as agriculture, energy, chemicals, and manufacturing.

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The railcar leasing service market includes revenues earned by entities by providing Specialized Equipment Leasing, Net leasing, bare leasing and per diem leasing and engineering services. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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