A new majority stake acquisition of Roland Spedition GmbH, a full-service rail and road transport operator, allows HHLA to boost hinterland links to and from Austria. The Hamburg-based company took over 51 per cent of...Read more
Austria has started a 250,000 support scheme for single wagon transport in Tyrol, bordering Italy. The programme has been in effect since 1 April. It is not supposed to be a one-time love affair with...Read more
As Germany is planning for much-needed rail infrastructure renovations, points of contention arise. While renovations are necessary for the outdated network, significant infrastructure downtime could lead to serious consequences for the rail freight industry. Especially...Read more
Lidl is to move into rail freight with the creation of a new unit, Tailwind Intermodal. This unit will work closely with the German discount retailer’s in-house container shipping line while also offering its services...Read more
Lineas has set up a new rail freight connection between Zeebrugge in Belgium and Graz in Austria. The service is launched in collaboration with CSP Zeebrugge, a COSCO Shipping Lines terminal. The purpose is to...Read more
The Austrian national rail freight operator Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is implementing a new TransFER connection between Linz, Duisburg and Rotterdam. The new link can be seen as an extension of the Linz-Wels-Duisburg RCG connection.Read more
The Austrian national rail freight company Rail Cargo Group (RCG) started the upgrade of the rail terminal in Wels, roughly 30 kilometres southwest of Linz. The four loading tracks will be extended from 580 to...Read more
Germany’s railways may face a lack of financing security. Rail association Allianz pro-Schiene reports that the financing for railways is secure for a duration of only a single year. In comparison, Austria and Switzerland have...Read more
The Austrian national rail freight company Rail Cargo Group (RCG) partnered up with Swiss rail rolling stock leasing company MFD Rail. The agreement includes up to 600 multimodal container carrier wagons designed with RCG’s MOBILER...Read more
Austria wants Italy to increase the share of goods moved on the railways when being transported across their shared border, which is currently 26 per cent of the total. The Austrian government is doing so...Read more
Austrian brewery Brau Union Österreich and Dutch food retail chain SPAR are collaborating with Rail Cargo Group (RCG) to transport their products on the railway rather than on the road. The rail leg of this...Read more
More than 21 billion euros have been approved by the Austrian government for railway expansion between the years 2024 and 2029. This is an increase on the previous plans to spend 19 billion euros in...Read more
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
The Italian private rail freight sector has kept growing since the early 2000s, despite the state-owned entity, Mercitalia Rail, still keeping the largest slice of the pie. All in all, the situation in Italy concerning...Read more
The first test train connecting Kyiv and Rail Cargo Group’s BILK terminal in Budapest is a fact. The test was completed in late September and is the precursor of a stable and frequent intermodal connection...Read more
Intermodal railway connections between Ukraine and Austria might soon become a reality. Ukrainian Railways (UZ) and Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the freight subsidiary of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), pledged to develop a route running...Read more
Italy is experiencing significant disruptions in the transport and logistics sector, especially the rail freight industry, due to natural calamities and other disruptions. The country is currently somehow logistically isolated from all its neighbours in...Read more
exclusiveThe situation concerning the proceedings against Bahnoperator Austria and Bahnoperator Polska’s holding company, Lienzer Dolomiten Beteiligungsgesellschaft (LDB) is still shrouded in smoke. This is because contrasting statements are coming from the various parties involved. RailFreight.com...Read more
exclusiveThe bankruptcy claim involving Bahnoperator Austria and Bahnoperator Polska’s holding company, Lienzer Dolomiten Beteiligungsgesellschaft (LDB), will end up in court even if the claims are false. Moreover, TE Bahnoperator CEO Marcel Stein insisted that the...Read more
The Brenner Pass, the main rail border crossing between Italy and Austria, will be closed for “extensive work in the railway tunnels”, between 6 and 23 August, as The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) said. Freight...Read more
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has been transporting 78,000 tons of municipal waste per year from Tyrol to Upper Austria on behalf of Linz Service GmbH for twelve years – all in accordance with the...Read more