VIIA, a French transportation company, has launched a new rail freight service connecting the port of Sete, in southern France, with the Valenton terminal, 15 kilometres from Paris. This new connection is expected to boost...Read more
Nestle Waters France will use a hydrogen-powered freight train for the transport of VITTEL mineral water from 2025. The innovative system will be developed by Alstom and the hydrogen will be provided by ENGIE. The...Read more
The new rail logistics area in Nantes-Blottereau, in northwestern France, was inaugurated Thursday, 17 November. The new facility, which replaced the one in Nantes-Etat, will be suitable for 750-metre-long trains and will be also used...Read more
The Austrian Federal Railways (OBB) will launch a new connection between Italy and Austria to speed up customs operations at the port of Trieste. The service will in fact connect the port with Villach, in...Read more
GTS, an Italian transportation company, will soon implement a new rail freight service between Bari, in southeastern Italy, and the port of Genoa, in the northwest of the country. The service will start on 16...Read more
The Bouzas Port Area, in the port of Vigo, in northwestern Spain, will finally be connected to the railway. Eptisa Engineering Services, an engineering company, was awarded the tender for technical assistance to prepare a...Read more
Adriafer, the railway company of the port of Trieste, will adopt the roadrailLink (r2L) connector system that will allow to move non-cranable trailers from trucks onto trains directly. The r2L system was developed by VEGA...Read more
The new container terminal at Ostrava Airport multimodal park (OAMP) in Mosnov, in the eastern Czech Republic will be used for container transfer operations from trucks to trains. This was made clear during the official...Read more
For the first time in nine years, rail tracks in the port of Brest, northwestern France, were finally used again. Bunge, an American agribusiness and food company, has started supplying its facility in Brest by...Read more
A new logistics terminal has been opened at the marshaling yard in Chiasso, a Swiss city on the border with Italy. The terminal is expected to facilitate the transfer of goods from road to rail...Read more
After Honda and Stellantis shifted to rail for their transportation services in Italy, DHL is joining as well, signaling how big companies are willing to choose rail over road, if suitable services are provided. The...Read more
China set in motion a new intermodal service connecting the country with Africa via Europe. The rail part of the service will run between Chengdu, in southwest China, with Hamburg, in Germany, via the China-Europe...Read more
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the bottler of Coca-Cola drinks, is making the switch from road to rail for the distribution of the soft drinks to warehouse locations across London and Yorkshire. In partnership with Maritime...Read more
After launching a rail freight service for the transport of automotive parts between Italy and Poland on behalf of Stellantis, Sangritana is putting Honda motorcycle components on the rail as well. Sangritana is an Italian...Read more
Its official launch was delayed, but a new intermodal service linking Yorkshire and Scotland is successfully underway. The iPort terminal in Doncaster and Mossend International Railfreight Park in Scotland have been connected by a brand...Read more
CFL Multimodal from Luxembourg has launched a new rail freight service between Sète, in southern France, and Poznan, in Western Poland. For now, there will be one roundtrip per week, as a spokesperson from CFL...Read more
Another intermodal route laid by CargoBeamer utilising its key European terminals is already up and running. This time the company will link the Cabooter Railterminal Kaldenikirchen directly with the port of Rostock. This is the...Read more
GATX Rail Europe and Trifleet are collaborating to provide their customers with an effective solution to transport liquified natural gas (LNG) on rail. GATX will make available its rail wagons, while Trifleet will supply its...Read more
Mercitalia Rail (Group FS), in collaboration with Lugo Terminal, is increasing its weekly roundtrip between Verona and Giovinazzo, roughly 30 kilometres from Bari, on the southeast Italian coast. The rotations will be increased from 12...Read more
American rail freight company BNSF Railway is planning to build a new facility in Barstow, in southern California. The Barstow International Gateway (BIG) will allow for the direct transfer of containers from ships to rail...Read more
La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), a subsidiary of Contship Italia, was granted 160 million to strengthen the rail infrastructure of the port of La Spezia, 100 kilometres from Genoa. The money will be used to...Read more
