Invisible border Europe-China opens up with uniform legal regime
Until today rail freight traffic between Europe and Asia must cross an invisible border due to the existence of two different legal regimes. Where Europe applies the CIM Uniform Rules, Russia, China and other Asian...Read more
Freight and Terminal Forum – Live Blog Day 3
On 26, 27, and 28 March the Freight and Terminal Forum is taking place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This is the live blog, with news updates, videos and interviews of this first freight edition of...Read more
Freight and Terminal Forum – Live Blog Day 2
On 26, 27, and 28 March the Freight and Terminal Forum is taking place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This is the live blog, with news updates, videos and interviews of this first freight edition of...Read more
Swiss Alps still see 300,000 trucks too many
Two years after the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2016 the number of trucks passing through the Swiss Alpine structure should have been less than 650 thousand per year. This was the ambition...Read more
Freight and Terminal Forum – Live Blog Day 1
On 26, 27, and 28 March the Freight and Terminal Forum is taking place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This is the live blog, with news updates, videos and interviews of this first freight edition of...Read more
Road and rail work together on liability of combined transport
Two large interest groups representing the rail and road sector respectively have joined hands to form a legal basis for combined transport. The International Railway Committee (CIT) and International Road Transport Union (IRU) want to...Read more
Next step toward paperless freight traffic Europe
A next step towards paperless rail freight transport in Europe has been taken. On 12 March, the European Parliament proposed a new regulation for the digitalisation of electronic freight transport information. In simpler terms, this...Read more
Lineas CEO: running trains should be as easy as trucks
To make the railway the backbone of the European transport network, driving a train must become as easy as driving a truck. Furthermore, a level playing field must be created between rail and road transport,...Read more
Small inland terminals lose traffic to large European hubs
While some European hubs are growing in terms of freight traffic volumes, this leads to the marginalisation of some smaller, inland terminals. Truckers rather opt for the larger terminals with a high frequency of train...Read more
Terminal capacity must be doubled to achieve climate goals
If we want to achieve climate ambitions for the freight transport industry, the capacity of terminals must be doubled. This was concluded by Ad Toet, railway consultant at a webinar about terminal efficiency, held on...Read more
Google Glass to check containers at Wiencont
The Austrian hinterland terminal Wiencont will test the use of Google Glass this year to check incoming containers. Normally this work is done manually by taking pictures of all the elements that need to be...Read more
Dutch terminal Coevorden considers rail connection to China
After Tilburg, Amsterdam and Venlo, the Dutch city of Coevorden may be added to the railway network connecting the Netherlands to China. The terminal on the Dutch-German border is looking into a new railway service...Read more
‘Ban on pocketwagons leads to cost increase European rail freight’
The temporary ban on the use of semi-trailers on pocketwagons in Denmark has caused considerable costs to railway operations and logistics chains in Europe. This concludes the EU Agency for Railways (ERA). “ERA understands why...Read more