The successful test runs of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) trains around Europe bring some rapid developments in Germany. DB is eager to set up 150 pop-up workshops for the DAC retrofitting of wagons. First, the...Read more
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
Autumn arrives a little earlier in Scotland than in other parts of the UK. That always makes it the first place to try out the season’s newest techniques for dealing with leaf fall and debris...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) is collaborating with Australian energy group Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) to turn diesel engines into ones running on ammonia and hydrogen which will be used for rail freight, as a DB spokesperson...Read more
A project launched by Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and Fraunhofer CML is trying to find a way to use mobile robotics to automate the process of container pin handling in rail processing. This...Read more
HVO fuel and a future hydrogen combustion engine will play a role in reducing rail emissions. “We can replace old vehicles with new sustainable trains; however, we also need to do something to reduce the...Read more
Fifteen European wagon keepers will unite in a consortium in order to be eligible for 1.17 million euros in EU funding. The funding is needed to make the wagons silent, a costly upgrade. The consortium...Read more
SNCF’s rail network manager, SNCF Réseau and Rail Logistics Europe, an entity grouping its rail freight units, have developed a system for “the intelligent detection of train anomalies.”Read more
Glasgow headquartered ScottishPower has revealed plans for a hydrogen fuels hub at the Port of Felixstowe. The energy company says it will help decarbonise transport and logistics operations at the UK’s busiest intermodal port. Shipping...Read more
Capturing CO2 from the air while running a train: it could even make a diesel-fueled train nearly carbon-neutral. US-based startup CO2Rail Company, together with researchers from the University of Sheffield, are working to design carbon-capturing...Read more
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
MSC launched two new Fast Corridor trains to connect the Gioia Tauro port to the North of Italy. Tests have in fact started for Fast Corridor trains for the Padova Interporto-Trieste route and La Spezia-Bologna...Read more
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
Rail Cargo Group and A1 have reached the milestone of equipping 11,000 freight wagons with SmartCargo devices. SmartCargo technology allows for position detection, shock detection, and more efficient maintenance.Read more
CFL multimodal is in the installation process of a third gantry crane at the Bettemburg-Dudelange intermodal terminal in Luxembourg. The crane is commissioned by Kuenz, the Austria-based innovative engineering company that has developed cranes which...Read more
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
Same-day delivery on a continental scale. Turning entire continents into a single-market. A futuristic scenario? No, a concrete projection of what a hyperloop network can do in Europe. And not only can, but will do,...Read more
The Swiss Federal Council has approved the law on underground goods transport, which will come into force on 1 August. The law provides the legal ground for implementing a futuristic yet realistic project: the Cargo...Read more
The on-board rollout of ETCS is behind schedule because operators have little incentive to invest in the system when they can still run on class-B systems, says Marcin Wojcik, Policy Officer at the European Commission...Read more
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
By the end of this year, Genesee & Wyoming Inc (G&W) will have implemented terminal operating systems (TOS) at ten of its UK terminals. What is more, the systems will be integrated. In doing this,...Read more