The future of the upgrade of the rail border crossing between France and Spain on the TEN-T Atlantic Corridor is still unclear and concerns are increasing. Carlo Sacchi, Community Executive responsible for the Corridor, presented...Read more
Hupac is extending the suspension of its rail freight services between Pordenone, in northeastern Italy, with Duisburg, in Germany. The service was initially suspended mid-April because, as the Deputy Managing Director of Hupac Alessandro Valenti...Read more
US weekly updateCanadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), one of the largest railway companies in North America, launched a new service called Mexico Midwest Express (MMX). This, as the company stated, is the only intermodal service operating daily...Read more
Swiss intermodal operator Hupac is calling on the Swiss government to temporarily suspend the annual reduction of subsidies for combined transport until the economic crisis is over. In the first quarter of 2023 the operator...Read more
The port of Valencia, on the eastern Spanish coast, started a study for a direct connection to Burgos province in the north of the country. The project is endorsed by MSC, COSCO, L’Oreal, and Bridgestone,...Read more
The railway line that will connect Iraq to Turkey is starting to get shaped. The design of the route has been completed, according to the Iraqi ministry of Transport. The 1,175-km railway line will run...Read more
Two new rail freight services connecting Italy and Austria have been launched by ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG). The service, as the company claimed, provides end-to-end logistics solutions, including first and last-mile deliveries.Read more
French tech company Thales won the tender for the development of new functionalities for the security installations of the railway terminals at the port of Huelva, in southwestern Spain. According to the company, this project...Read more
The debate about the Turin-Lyon railway is in a heated phase since France does not seem too keen on providing access routes to the tunnel from Lyon. Last week, 57 French senators sent a pledge...Read more
The Italian Autonomous Province of Bolzano, in the northeast, will deploy three million euros to incentivise and improve rail freight for European companies carrying out services in the area. To be eligible for this policy,...Read more
Pledges to find alternative rail freight routes along the left bank of the Rhine river have been discussed for a few months now due to rising capacity bottlenecks along the main line. Now the ball...Read more
The port of Livorno, in central western Italy, is getting a stronger rail connection to the Vespucci rail terminal. The project entails the construction of a rail overpass with a length of 350 metres that...Read more
The recently launched initiative of shipping waste from Rome to Amsterdam via rail keeps encountering criticism. This time, Swiss MP Bruno Storni pointed out that the new service does not benefit Switzerland but, on the...Read more
Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprungli will receive cocoa beans coming from Amsterdam by rail from now on. The initiative is made possible by VTG, which converted some of its regular hopper wagons to enable...Read more
A new service, christened Stuttgart Express, will connect the port of Prà, part of the Ports of Genoa conglomerate, with the city in southwestern Germany. The first train will leave from Genoa on 4 May...Read more
The Trento bypass, a key element to provide access to the Brenner Base Tunnel on the Italian side, has been greenlit for construction. This signal came after studies confirmed no environmental risks for workers and...Read more
Iraq approved the project for the so-called Development Road (also known as the Dry Canal), a rail and road network that will link Basrah, in the south of Iraq, with the Turkish border. Turkish president...Read more
Rail freight traffic between China and Kazakhstan will be redirected through the Altynkol-Khorgos border crossing. Most of the affected traffic will concern cargo between China and Central Asia and, specifically, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan....Read more
Russian intermodal company Fesco has recently launched new sea services between St.Petersburg and Kaliningrad that allows them to avoid crossing Lithuania by rail. LTG Cargo, the freight subsidiary of Lithuanian Railways, has in fact decided...Read more
The Alessandria Smistamento rail terminal, 83 kilometres north of Genoa, in northeastern Italy, will be enhanced to become a key intermodal hub on the TEN-T Rhine-Alpine Corridor. The planned improvements include enabling the hub to...Read more
Rail freight traffic at the Brenner Station, the main rail border crossing between Italy and Austria, has been reduced until further notice since Wednesday 22 March. This is because, as the Italian infrastructure manager Rete...Read more