An energy subsidy for rail, a new bypass on the Rhine-Alpine corridor and better coordination of construction works. Those are three things the European rail freight industry needs in 2022 if it wants to develop...Read more
Cobantur Boltas, a Turkish-German logistics company, launched its first intermodal train connecting the Halkali terminal in Istanbul with the DUSS terminal in Munich. The service commenced on 21 January with the first train departing from...Read more
The Bologna Interporto terminal, positioned in northern Italy, started the year dynamically by launching new intermodal links with northern Europe. The destinations include port terminals Zeebrugge Cobelfret and Rostock. The services focus on the transport...Read more
GEODIS has launched a new road-rail solution linking the Paris region with northern Italy. Officially kicked off on Tuesday 18 January, the line links Noisy-le-Sec in France to Novara in Italy and is intended to...Read more
Maritime Transport, the familiar provider of integrated road and rail logistics, has launched a new intermodal service this week, connecting its Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal (BIFT) with Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe. It’s the 38th...Read more
Associated British Ports, the owners at both Port of Liverpool and at Hams Hall, the intermodal terminal in Birmingham, have uncorked the champagne on the first weeks of operations on their new flow between the...Read more
APM Terminals Elizabeth in New Jersey, USA, is looking to use its first port of call momentum to expand intermodal cargo volumes to and from the Midwest and Canada. Using a direct-to-rail landing zone section...Read more
Just a week before Christmas, Kombiverkehr provided its presents to forwarders. The German government upgraded existing connections and added new ones to its network, with Mortara in Italy and MegaHub Lehrte in Germany playing the...Read more
The Lithuanian and Turkish railways are very close to sealing a collaboration to transport semi-trailers between the two countries. The aim is to utilise existing services and link Istanbul to Chernomorsk in Ukraine and further...Read more
CLdN Cargo has signed an agreement with Macama to represent the CLdN Cargo companies in the Italian market. CLdN Cargo has been active in Italy for more than five years with their own fleet of...Read more
The logistics provider CargoBeamer has another rail freight connection in the pipeline. This time, it will connect its German hub in Kaldenkirchen with Perpignan, an important junction on the French-Spanish border. The new service will...Read more
Fish products from Narvik, Norway’s northernmost terminal, now find their way to the rest of Europe via train. A new intermodal service organised by Norwegian Blue Water Shipping, in collaboration with CargoNet and Nor-log Thermo,...Read more
The intermodal sector should be bold, and make a case for the sector in Brussels and at home, said Barbara Thaler, Tyrolean Member of the European Parliament and TRAN Committee member at the start of...Read more
The American port of Savannah has doubled its rail freight handling capacity at a stroke, adding nine more roads to its Garden City terminal. With a backlog of intermodal loads and almost half a million...Read more
Polish intermodal operators still face substantial problems when it comes to terminal capacity. A report from the Polish Road Transport Institute Foundation (PITD) found that limited terminal capacity remains the most significant issue for Poland’s...Read more
Logistics provider Swissterminal is expanding its Schweizerzug service with a new connection between Antwerp and Ottmarsheim, starting 1 January 2022. This transport service will begin with three direct roundtrips per week, each with the fastest...Read more
France is getting another intermodal railway line. VIIA is launching a service between Le Boulou in the south of France and Genevillier, north of Paris. It is the first time the company links to the...Read more
A little later than planned, but on 13 December Cargobeamer will start operating its Calais-Domodossola line. “For the start, we plan to operate four weekly trains in each direction, with a frequency-upgrade to six rotations...Read more
