Railcare Group AB (publ) (RAIL) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Hi! Today we have released our report for the first quarter and we are starting the year very strongly and this is a report that we are very, very pleased with. Before we go into the report itself, I thought I'd tell you a little bit about our business. At Raidcare, we mainly operate in three different areas. We have entrepreneurship, where we carry out rail maintenance with self-developed machines, as well as irrigation. In transportation, we carry out goods, entrepreneurship and special transport with our own locomotives and locomotives. In technology, we develop and transform both locomotives and machines, as well as we carry out service and maintenance. Vår marknad på järnvägen ser väldigt intressant ut. Underhållsskulden på svensk järnväg är väldigt stor och behovet av en väl fungerande och hållbar järnvägsinfrastruktur är avgörande för svensk industris konkurrenskraft. Transporterna på järnvägen förespåls samtidigt öka med 50% fram till år 2040. Det innebär att underhållet behöver effektiviseras för att minimera påverkan på trafiken på järnvägen. The membership in NATO also places increased demands on the railway's robustness and reliability. The fact that the railway is in focus therefore has simple and natural explanations. If we look at the report, as I mentioned earlier, we start the year very strongly. This is the best movement result we have ever had for the first quarter. And it is above all the entrepreneurship business that stands out during the first quarter. The new contract for snow removal has been in force since March, which is an extension of two weeks compared to the old contract. The Q4 report informed us that some of the work had to be shot in the future due to the early winter. Now, instead, spring has come early and a large part of these job...