Topic: Agriculture

Rail for Ukrainian grain exports: a necessity or the future?

Before the war in Ukraine, only 11 per cent of all exports was done by rail. In the period March-July, rail handled 41 per cent of the cargo flow, almost as much as the seaports,...Read more

16-09-2022|2 comments|author: Majorie van Leijen

Ukraine’s transhipment capacity insufficient, but EU helps out

Ukraine’s transhipment capacity is insufficient to handle the agricultural cargo volumes pending on the Western Ukrainian border. The country’s infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov underlined that time is pressuring and stressed that EU investments in Ukraine...Read more

20-05-2022|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

Rail freight becomes key in French cereal supply chain

SNCF Réseau, the French rail infrastructure manager, and Soufflet, a French agri-food group and cereal exporter, are cooperating to improve the position of rail freight in the cereal supply chain. The French IM will assist...Read more

09-03-2022|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

RZD Logistics tests agro-trains between Kazakhstan and China

Since the year’s start, the Kazakhstan branch of RZD Logistics sent two dedicated trains with agricultural products to China. The two trains carried 124 40-foot containers from Bayserka station near Almaty to Wuwei in China’s...Read more

16-02-2022|Comment|author: Steven Don

Lyon-China line now for cooled transport

The rail freight service from the French city of Lyon to Wuhan in Central China is now available for refrigerated agricultural products. Trains are loaded and unloaded in Venissieux, 16 kilometres far from Lyon. There...Read more

01-05-2019|Comment|author: Jose Gutierrez