Sugar beets on rails: RCG sets up dedicated agricultural services
Between October 2023 and January 2024, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group freight trains in Austria and Hungary will be busy serving a particular segment of the agricultural sector. Sugar beets and their transport will be the...Read more
Reefer transport via Russia: possibility there, but what about demand?
EU products that need to be placed inside reefer containers, especially agri-food products, have had trouble transiting Russia for a long time. They were subjected to sanctions in 2014, while transit via Russia became possible...Read more
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
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
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
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