Technology

HS2: Another week, another tunnel

HS2 Limited, the company building the high-speed railway between London and Birmingham, has launched the next phase of tunnelling on the enormous infrastructure project. The first of six tunnel boring machines that will dig over...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton
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Major players take combined transport to the cloud

Major intermodal players Hupac and Kombiverkehr bring something new to the market. In collaboration with transport companies Hoyers and Paneuropa, railway undertaking Lokomotion and Kombiterminal Ludwigshafen, they launched the company DX Intermodal to transform data...Read more
|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios
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SNCF Fret goes digital with Everysens collaboration

Arkema, SNCF Fret, and Everysens launched a tripartite project aimed at improving rail freight traffic performance through data comparison. The project aims at providing real-time updates on estimated time of arrivals (ETA) and identifying immobilisation...Read more
|Comment|author: Marco Raimondi

Spanish port of Sagunto gets in the hyperloop game

The port of Sagunto, located near Valencia in Spain, is ready to launch a testing period for a hyperloop freight project. The Sustainable Electric Freight-forwarder (SELF) project, developed by the company Zeleros, “enables standard intermodal...Read more
|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

New deal in France to enhance shipment visibility

Shippeo, the Paris-headquartered, real-time, multimodal freight tracking platform and Everysens, a specialist in rail and intermodal TMS software, have announced a partnership agreement aimed at enhancing shipment visibility. Under the terms of the tie-up, Lille-based...Read more
|Comment|author: Stuart Todd