The Port of Hamburg is no longer accepting trains due to ongoing strikes at its terminal facilities. On 29 August, port workers announced the strikes…
France’s second biggest inland port of Strasbourg, in eastern France, has unveiled a 70 million-euro project to create a new rail freight terminal with the…
CargoBeamer is doubling the frequency of its service on the Calais – Perpignan route. From Saturday 7 October, the company will offer four weekly round…
Poland and Lithuania are fighting cigarette smuggling on freight trains coming from their neighbour Belarus. The former seems to encounter a growing number of attempts…
The launch of ERTMS on the Norwegian Nordlandsbanen will take place later than expected. Infrastructure manager Bane NOR cannot get its hands on the necessary…
A “premiere”, as Tailwind Intermodal calls it in its own press release. The subsidiary of supermarket chain Lidl has started as a rail operator. The…
Russian state-owned bank VTB has purchased Freight One. Earlier, the bank took over the rail freight operator’s management. In February, Freight One pledged nearly 70…
Turkish state rolling stock manufacturer Türasaş is developing a wagon that can carry military vehicles as well as containers. The design of the wagon focuses…
Nearly three quarters of all rail freight transportation is being carried out below the cost price in Kazakhstan. As a result, the country awaits more…
CargoBeamer is doubling the frequency of its service on the Calais – Perpignan route. From Saturday 7 October, the company will offer four weekly round…
A “premiere”, as Tailwind Intermodal calls it in its own press release. The subsidiary of supermarket chain Lidl has started as a rail operator. The…
Russian state-owned bank VTB has purchased Freight One. Earlier, the bank took over the rail freight operator’s management. In February, Freight One pledged nearly 70…
Nearly three quarters of all rail freight transportation is being carried out below the cost price in Kazakhstan. As a result, the country awaits more…
Poland and Lithuania are fighting cigarette smuggling on freight trains coming from their neighbour Belarus. The former seems to encounter a growing number of attempts…
Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favour of the operation of Longer Heavier Vehicles (LHVs) across the EU, adopting its position on a…
Lineas, one of the largest private rail freight operators in Europe, has published a memorandum with five “actions” to increase competition with state-owned entities. In…
It is now official: a massive work stoppage for the rail freight sector will begin in Canada on Thursday 22 August. The initiative is expected…
Uzbekistan is selling a 35 per cent share of its national container freight operator Uztemiryolkonteyner (UTYK). The process incurred a delay of almost a year,…
Freight volumes on the Middle Corridor have grown by 63 per cent. The new figures concern the first seven months of 2024.
Kazakhstan is planning a new route to transit goods between China and Russia. It has identified the Irtysh river, which flows between Russia and China…
The first “Arctic Express” train with Chinese imports has left the northern port city of Arkhangelsk in Russia. After Russia sent its first Arctic Express…
Liege Airport and intermodal terminal operator Liège Logistics Intermodal (LLI) have announced a strategic partnership focusing on the creation of a major multimodal air-rail-road hub…
Rail freight traffic at the largest port in Spain, Algeciras, has significantly decreased throughout 2024 so far. The main reason behind the drop is that…
The European Commission (EC) has approved French State aid totalling 9.3 million euros to support the ongoing development of two multimodal freight terminals. One of…
The Spanish Ministry of Transport tasked engineering company Ineco to carry out a feasibility study for the construction of a new rail freight terminal just…
The German rail associations Die Güterbahnen, Mofair, VPI and Pro Bahn want to remove infrastructure management from the DB Group’s tasks. The parties are not…
The UK’s national infrastructure management agency has not quite put it that way. However, in a significant step towards modal shift, Network Rail has made…
Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favour of the operation of Longer Heavier Vehicles (LHVs) across the EU, adopting its position on a…
Britain’s new government, led by the left-wing Labour Party, has committed to nationalising the railways in Great Britain. There have been nationalisations of Britain’s railways…
The launch of ERTMS on the Norwegian Nordlandsbanen will take place later than expected. Infrastructure manager Bane NOR cannot get its hands on the necessary…
Deutsche Bahn (DB) is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help in checking its rolling stock. The new technology is supposed to significantly…
The Swiss Federal Council will invest 180 million francs (around 192 million euros) for the deployment of the Digital Automatic Couplng (DAC). The Swiss Ministry…
CargoBeamer is launching a new research and development project for automatic wagon inspection in cooperation with its partners Fraunhofer IML and SGKV. The aim is…
France’s second biggest inland port of Strasbourg, in eastern France, has unveiled a 70 million-euro project to create a new rail freight terminal with the…
The Port of Hamburg is no longer accepting trains due to ongoing strikes at its terminal facilities. On 29 August, port workers announced the strikes…
The Nordic region’s largest freight terminal will get various technical improvements, in both capacity and infrastructure and is now inviting stakeholders to contribute to the…
The German rail associations Die Güterbahnen, Mofair, VPI and Pro Bahn want to remove infrastructure management from the DB Group’s tasks. The parties are not…