Services

Freight and Maintenance

Mantena offers maintenance and repair of all types of freight wagons and locomotives for both operators and rolling stock owners.

We are flexible and service-oriented, delivering capacity and quality when our customers need it most. Our workshops are strategically located at Alnabru, Grorud, Brattøra (Trondheim), and in Narvik.

Comprehensive Maintenance Responsibility

Mantena assumes full responsibility for your rolling stock, and together we agree on availability, lead times, and spare parts inventory. As our customer, you have a single supplier to deal with, and we work together to provide reliable and dependable transport services for your end customers.

This requires close cooperation and mutual trust.

Tailored Maintenance Agreements

The maintenance activities are adapted to the customer’s needs and preferences, and the customer may choose to carry out certain tasks or functions themselves.

Locomotives

At Mantena, we have extensive experience with the maintenance of both electric and diesel locomotives. At our workshop in Marienborg, we possess unique diesel expertise.

Freight Cars

We maintain all types of freight cars:

  • Container cars
  • Car transporters
  • Semi-trailers
  • Timber cars
  • Tank cars
  • Ballast cars

Please feel free to contact us even if you do not see your wagon type on the list!

What We Do

  • Preventive and corrective maintenance
  • Revisions
  • Field service (mobile teams)
  • Inspection
  • Procurement
  • Inventory management/parts pool

If you have needs beyond what is listed here, you are welcome to contact us, and we will find a solution together!

Why Choose Mantena

We share our customers’ ambitions! In order to reach climate goals, we must together ensure that more freight is moved from road to rail. At Mantena, our experienced employees work wholeheartedly every day to ensure that locomotives and cars are operational and reliable. We know what it takes for trains to run on schedule, which is why we deliver quality maintenance—every single day.

We Have What It Takes

  • Professional organization that puts safety and quality first
  • Employees with extensive experience, broad and deep expertise—we solve the customer’s challenges
  • Nordic company with local management and short decision-making paths
  • Transparent and good collaboration with customers and suppliers
  • ECM I-IV
  • Member of VPI
  • Comprehensive planning and coordination of the assignment

Customer References

CargoNet

The cooperation with Mantena works very well. It is both about the people who work on the wagons, and those who lead them. They are fantastic people who go the extra mile and jump when we say jump, says Kristoffer Strand, Operations Manager for locomotives and wagons at CargoNet.

Onrail

Onrail has a very good cooperation with Mantena. We experience high quality in the deliveries, combined with professionalism and good follow-up. Mantena is a reliable partner that we are happy to recommend, says Stian Kjensberg, Technical Manager at Onrail.

Contact

Thomas Bakkejord

Thomas Bakkejord

Contract Manager, Freight Wagons

Thomas Ørbakk

Thomas Ørbakk

Regional Manager Central Norway

Thomas.Orbakk@mantena.org

+47 982 32 128

The railway is part of the solution, and Mantena’s main goal is to carry out responsible and proper maintenance of railway vehicles. In this way, we help move people and goods from road to rail.

We shall do this in a sustainable way. We have a holistic approach to sustainability.