Maersk Line has launched a new high-speed railway service connecting the Croation coastal city of Rijeka with Budapest. The service is a direct connection to the ocean service of Maersk, in the direction of Europe...Read more
Intermodal operator Hupac launches a new connection from the north of Italy, in addition to increasing existing services this month. This weekend, a new service between and Rotterdam will commence. The Novara-Zeebrugge service will be...Read more
DB Cargo BTT, the chemical and dangerous goods logistics provider of DB Cargo, has launched a new railway line between Ludwigshafen and Burghausen. The three-weeky service is ran by a ‘mixed train’, consisting of a...Read more
Logistics provider Ekol launched a new train connection from Sete, France to Zeebrugge, Belgium. Moreover, it has increased the number of train connections from Sete to Paris. As such, Sete is set to become a...Read more
Starting in April, RailRunner Europe will provide train journeys with cranable mega trailers on its railway line between Brunswick and Bratislava. During weekdays and within 18 hours, RailRunner trains will transport the trailers in both...Read more
The Port of Amsterdam is growing in importance for freight operators. While a train departed eastbound to make the first direct link with Yiwu in China, it will soon commence with two new services in...Read more
Britain’s newest inland rail freight hub, the 337-acre iPort Rail in north east England, has welcomed its first train. With storage capacity for 1,500 TEUs and a reach stacker operation with a 115-tonne front axle load,...Read more
A rise in intermodal rail business last year by Italian operator, Contship Italia Group, came against the backdrop of an overall fall in freight volumes for the group.
Some good performances were achieved at Contship’s flagship...Read more
The Port of Kiel in northern Germany handled over 32,000 rail freight consignments last year, a rise of 9.5 per cent, according to official figures.
These intermodal successes helped ensure 2017 was one of the best...Read more
P&O Ferrymasters’ intermodal division has been praised for its efforts to protect goods at high risk of theft. The commendation has come from the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA), an international forum, an international forum working to reduce...Read more
Turkish-based intermodal specialist Ekol Logistics plans to increase the frequency of its Scandinavia-bound train cargoes after opening a new division in Sweden.
Ekol Nordics marks another major step for the company which already operates across Europe,...Read more
The Port of Felixstowe on England’s east coast has become the first port in the UK to handle more than one million TEUs by rail in a single year. The millionth unit was unloaded onto...Read more
Rail projects are central to a 1.4 million Euros modal shift programme at the Port of Antwerp. The port is investing in sustainable initiatives over the next three years aimed at making freight traffic movement...Read more
Supermarket Tesco is reportedly planning a test rail freight service using a Scottish intermodal hub built to carry decommissioned nuclear materials. If successful, it could kick-start the interest of other commercial operators in using the...Read more
A big increase in rail traffic to and from China will help Germany’s Duisburg Port record a 12 per cent increase in containers handled – up to 3.7 million TEUs – by the end of...Read more
