European Silk Road Summit 2022
As one of the major global shipping players, Maersk has a significant share of the Eurasian rail market. The company needed to adjust its strategy in 2022 because of geopolitical challenges. However, with the mindset that “when a door closes – another opens,” Maersk stays positive and believes that even in challenging periods, there are new opportunities to be tapped,...Read more
The Dutch rail industry association RailGood and DB Cargo Netherlands claim that investments planned by the Dutch government leave rail...Dutch rail industry criticises ‘incomprehensible’ state investments
This month’s UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a long and detailed budget last week. Although dubbed an “Autumn Statement”, the...UK rail projects dodge the axe in Autumn Statement
Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the freight arm of the Austrian Federal Railways (OBB), will expand with a new branch and...Rail Cargo Group to expand in Serbia and China
The new railway facility in Nantes is up and running
The new rail logistics area in Nantes-Blottereau, in northwestern France, was inaugurated Thursday, 17 November. The new facility, which replaced the one in Nantes-Etat, will be suitable for 750-metre-long trains and will be also used...Read more
Normal vs wide gauge: not just the width, a different philosophy
The EU is currently assessing the possibility of extending the normal gauge of the European railway network to Ukraine and Moldova, as part of its effort to better integrate the countries in the European transport...Read more
Kazakhstan lays second track on railway line to China
Kazakhstan has started with the construction of a second track on the railway line leading to the city of Dostyk, close to the border with China. This should increased the capacity of the crucial line...Read more
ÖBB does it: entry in Trieste, customs in Austria
The Austrian Federal Railways (OBB) will launch a new connection between Italy and Austria to speed up customs operations at the port of Trieste. The service will in fact connect the port with Villach, in...Read more
Spanish rail freight association demands state support for energy prices
The Association of Owners and Operators of Wagons of Spain (Faprove) asked for Spanish rail freight companies to be included as beneficiaries of the financing from the cap on energy prices. The association did so...Read more
Cargo from Russia through Azerbaijan almost doubles this year
Transit of cargo from Russia via Azerbaijan increased by 98 per cent since the beginning of the year. This was revealed by Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov during a recently held meeting with Russian...Read more
Critical UK link route to reopen after brutal bridge bash
Services are due to resume in full this Wednesday 23 November, after a serious bridge strike by an oversized road vehicle required almost complete reinstatement. The strike, one of thousands each year on the British...Read more
China-Belarus freight service shifts to rail
The first train from Xiamen, in the Fujian province in southeastern China, to Minsk, in Belarus, left on Sunday 20 November. With 16 days of transit time over 10,540 kilometres, this new service is expected...Read more
First train to Kherson brings happy people and parcels to liberated city
This Saturday, the first train from Kyiv arrived in Kherson in Ukraine since the city was liberated from Russian forces. On board were passengers, politicians as well as Ukrainian Post parcels and letters that had...Read more
Mercitalia’s high-speed rail freight service in Italy is no more
The high-speed rail freight service offered by Mercitalia Fast (FS Group), connecting the south of Italy with Bologna, has been canceled. The last train left the Mercitalia terminal in Marcianise, roughly 30 kilometres from Naples,...Read more
Berlin-Hannover railway line remains closed, too much gas in the air
The Berlin-Hannover railway line will remain closed until at least the end of November. The collision that took place on Thursday between two freight trains has caused damage to the overhead lines. What is more,...Read more
GATX and GASPOL join forces to supply Poland with LPG
GASPOL, Poland’s largest gas supplier, will use GATX’s LPG railcars to transport Liquefied Petroleum Gas from the port of Gdansk to its terminals in the country. The Polish company stopped importing gas from Russia already...Read more
These German lines will be renovated over the next 20 months
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has named the railway corridors Hamburg-Berlin and Emmerich-Oberhausen as the two sites where it will carry out major improvement works from late 2024 onwards. The overhaul is part of DB’s ongoing project...Read more
Carlisle derailment crane lift but opening drifts into December
A massive crane lift has helped Carlisle repairs ramp up. Eight hundred tonnes of crane does not come cheap, but that’s the price of restoring the railway south and east of Carlisle. After a massive...Read more
Long-term cooperation with Kuenz brings highest quality and safety for CFL multimodal
The commissioning of a new semi-automated and remote-controlled crane for CFL multimodal’s terminal in Bettembourg-Dudelange in September 2022 is about to significantly increase the site’s handling capacity while providing more quality and safety in operations...Read more
Collision: Berlin-Hanover line closed at least until the end of the weekend
The Berlin-Hanover railway line has been closed after two freight trains collided near Giifhorn, 60 kilometres east of Hannover, in northern Germany. Since the accident caused one wagon filled with propane gas to leak, it...Read more
