There has been an increase in the number of refugees that hide under freight trains to enter the country of arrival in the last few months. In Germany, police found hundred refugees in July alone while...Read more
A container with wine was loaded on a train departing Duisburg on July 28th, to cover a distance of 11,400 kilometres, cross six countries and arrive in Shanghai around August 21st. It is the second test...Read more
The Royal Navy has become the latest of the UK’s defence forces to have one of the UK’s biggest rail freight operators, GB Railfreight (GBRf), name one of its locomotives in its honour.
HMS Argyll, a...Read more
A rail freight infrastructure programme for Slovenia that would cost a billion Euros is to be put to a referendum, following a vote by the country’s Parliament. The 27-kilometre line is designed to speed up...Read more
Police in France have charged a man for allegedly stealing rocket launchers and shells from a freight train travelling between two military bases, according to French media reports.
The 23-year-old-man was arrested at his home in...Read more
Police are investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy after he suffered serious electrical burns at a rail depot in the UK. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident, the Daventry International...Read more
Criminals could take advantage of the growing rail links between China and Europe as a means to increase the trading of fake consumer goods, says the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol.
The latest Situation Report...Read more
Roll-out of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) has been ‘too slow’ and action is required to ensure targets are met, says the EU’s Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc. She told the final SERA railway convention...Read more
Ten years after the opening of The Netherlands-Germany Betuweroute freight line, more than 20,000 freight trains are now using the route every year, linking into the strategic Rotterdam-Genoa (Rhine-Alpine) rail corridor which is so crucial...Read more
An innovative Belgian ‘beer train’ has made its first delivery from brewery to supplier, and its new thrice-weekly service is set to take some 5,000 lorries off the roads every year, thanks to a new...Read more
Many international freight trains travelling through The Netherlands last year did not meet the required technical standards, putting rail safety at risk, Dutch transport inspectors say. The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate’s (ILT) annual report...Read more
A big decline in demand for coal movements was a key factor in rail freight falling significantly in the UK during 2016/17, according to official figures. Rail freight moved fell to 17.2 billion net tonne...Read more
Swiss intermodal operator Hupac is warning of serious challenges facing the European rail freight sector as a result of poor international cooperation over infrastructure and planning. This is despite it recording 737,000 rail movements in...Read more
Longer freight trains could be operating on the vital Rhine-Alpine rail freight corridor by 2021, building on the ‘booming success’ of the route which saw nearly 170,000 international freight trains operate in 2016, European ministers...Read more
The first container trains to directly link China and Sweden are now a reality. Scandinavian logistics supplier Greencarrier Freight Services’ says its first-hand experience of the Far East and strong environment-friendly credentials which are now...Read more
