Rail freight performance in Poland showed a decrease last year, but did reltalively well considering the pandemic that impacted the overall figures of rail. Moreover, intermodal transport is the real winner and showed an increase...Read more
In the Netherlands, 40 million tons of goods were transported by rail last year. This is 6.2 per cent less than in 2019. This decrease was entirely due to the decrease in port export and...Read more
In 2020, METRANS has increased the number of container trains travelling between Europe and China by 114 percent. This is despite the pandemic. According to the HHLA subsidiary, the coronavirus pandemic and resulting capacity bottlenecks...Read more
Rail freight operator DB Cargo was hit hard by the corona crisis in 2020. The company saw its losses more than double. With an increase of 136 per cent, the figures went down to minus...Read more
The Swiss rail freight operator SBB Cargo suffered a loss of almost 35 million francs last year, which amounts to 31.2 million euros. This is evident from the annual figures of parent company SBB.Read more
Rail freight traffic to, from, within and through the Netherlands decreased by about five per cent in 2020. The main explanation for this is the corona crisis. The year a strong decline due to corona...Read more
The number of freight trains that departed China Russia and Europe increased by 50 per cent in 2020. However, this increase was mostly due to the significant growth in volumes to Russia; traffic to Europe...Read more
This is the good review of the year, with a strict rule to see beyond the unhealthy health headlines. The UK industry has been telling RailFreight.com what really went well in the past twelve months....Read more
Ermewa is in the midst of a large modernisation scheme, upgrading more than twenty thousand wagons. These wagons are outdated, often fifty years old, and the company wants to keep up with time. Did the...Read more