Rail freight operator Medway Italia SRL has signed an agreement to use the Dutch rail infrastructure and services from 1 July. The Belgian branch of Medway Italia will manage the organisation and operational adjustment of...Read more
Another intermodal rail connection between Belgium and Italy has been launched. The new connection, operated by Lineas, connects North Sea Port with Piadena as a new gateway to Italy for intermodal trains.Read more
Nippon Express is answering the needs of a growing e-commerce business in western Europe with yet another logistics centre in Belgium: the Genk Logistics Centre. The new facility is located in the Genk Green Logistics...Read more
The port of Ghent, part of the broader North Sea Port complex in Belgium, experiences a boom in rail investments. The Belgian government and Infrabel, the country’s infrastructure manager, are on a mission to renew...Read more
The cross-border rail freight project in North Sea Port that connects Zeeuws-Vlaanderen with Ghent will receive 105 million euros from the Dutch Growth Fund (Groeifonds). With this, the Dutch government underlines the importance of rail...Read more
“The flooding of last year was the worst disaster we ever experienced on the Belgian railways”, said Bart Kamoen, civil engineer at Infrabel. How did Infrabel deal with the aftermath, and what is needed to...Read more
A new electrified rail freight line between Genk in Belgium and Bilzen in the south of the Netherlands was opened yesterday, 28 March. The new line came with an investment of 20 million euros, part...Read more
Lineas was discriminated in the allocation of train paths at two emplacement yards in the Netherlands. This was concluded by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets after the Belgian railway undertaking had submitted complaints...Read more
Shipping giant MSC has started a recruitment campaign for a new railway company in Belgium under the name Medway. In Portugal, Spain and Italy, MSC has been operating its own trains under the Medway label...Read more
A new intermodal connection is in the pipeline to link the Belgian Port of Antwerp with the Birsterminal in the Rhine port Birsfelden, Switzerland. The intermodal route will pass through Terminal Container Athus in southern...Read more
The Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel and the Belgian government will invest an additional 33,5 million euros in the Ghent part of North Sea Port in the coming years. The plans foresee the addition of new...Read more
The Belgian government is making another 357 million euros available for the modernisation of the railway network, a fund that primarily serves to support freight rail transport. This is according to the infrastructure manager Infrabel.Read more
After three successive storms raging over the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the railway tracks were all but accessible. Fallen trees were the most common object obstructing passage on the railway lines, but there were many...Read more
After three storms and a persistently strong wind on Monday, railway lines in the Benelux region are still impacted by the bad weather. The complete standstill that was the case in most regions on Friday...Read more
The port of Zeebrugge aims to expand its inland connections to France. A new direct rail freight connection to Marseille in the country’s southern end is currently under serious consideration.Read more
The Belgian coalition government reached a budget agreement last week. Railways receive 250 million extra in the next three years. Most of this will be invested in infrastructure, to further develop rail freight transport. Read more
North Sea Port and Infrabel are jointly launching Railconnect, a port rail team with representatives from both to encourage more use of rail. The port currently knows a modal split of 10 per cent for...Read more
Belgian mobility minister Georges Gilkinet has asked Europe to ease state aid rules for rail transport, both for freight and for international passenger transport, including night trains. He made his plea during a meeting of...Read more
More than twenty organisations in Belgium, including the Flemish ports, Infrabel and VBO, have presented the Rail Roadmap 2030. In this document they indicate which steps must be taken to enable a doubling of rail...Read more
The port of Zeebrugge aims to make rail freight the primary mode for its inland transport operations. The Belgian port has a clear focus: it wants rail to handle 20 per cent of its cargo...Read more
The North Sea – Mediterranean rail freight corridor is open again for trains as of this morning (Monday, 16 August). The corridor was closed for weeks due to damage that occurred on its Belgian section...Read more
