The G7, the big leaders of the world, and the EU have pledged to raise 600 billion US dollars (634.56 billion euros) over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries. In the west,...Read more
EVENTIn a little more than 24 hours the special edition of the RailFreight Summit kicks off. This event, hosted in Brussels on Wednesday 6 April, is organised to discuss the current challenges on the New...Read more
A new rail freight link has been launched between China and Vietnam. It connects the Chinese Silk Road hub Chongqing and the capital of Vietnam – Hanoi. The route is part of the New International...Read more
The New Silk Road may face turbulent times at the moment, there are also positive effects of the instability on the corridor. The congestion on the New Silk Road has seen an impressive drop, with...Read more
A second train of the China-Nepal railway service will soon be launched. The train will depart from the Chinese province of Qinghai and arrive in the autonomous region of Tibet, where it will be picked...Read more
All roads lead to Duisburg, is what these logistics companies must have thought. The Dutch logistics firm Nunner and Chinese counterpart Tiedada have established a bypass route via Turkey for cargo from China to the...Read more
COSCO has launched a new China-Europe train, connecting Qingdao on the east coast of China with
Mannheim, a German logistics hotspot in the west of the country. The first train departed from Qingdao last Friday, 18...Read more
If you asked industry experts to define the New Silk Road in 2021, the key word was congestion. Two months into the new year, congestion seems to have decreased, and trains are able to make...Read more
The assumption that the Winter Olympics are only about sports can already be contested. Since the start of the worldly event in Beijing, several handshakes have been made by world leaders agreeing about a range...Read more
UPDATERail freight traffic between Ukraine and Poland will resume on Thursday 10 February 2021. This was negotiated today by the respective ministries of the countries. Freight trains to and from Poland have been banned from...Read more
Transit traffic through Ukraine to and from the Polish border will be resumed. That was the biggest news of this week, although an official date for the reopening of this route is yet to be...Read more
ANALYSISScenarios around the consequences of an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine have come and gone lately. So far, Russia is not buckling under Western pressure while the US and EU are ready to impose...Read more
Right before China transitioned into the New Year according to its calendar, it saw another reason to celebrate. On 29 January the 50,000th China-Europe train embarked on its journey towards the west.Read more
A few days ago, the presidents of four Central Asian countries met with India’s prime minister. They praised the transport and logistics possibilities between the countries, but unfortunately, no concrete plans were produced. Read more
As soon as the Chinese New Year is over, a regular chemical train may be running on the New Silk Road. That is the plan of COSCO and VTG, which saw the first train arriving...Read more
Kazachstan’s customs authorities have seen many dollars gone missing due to structural fraud at the border with China. This is according to the Kazakh president, who has ordered a revamp of the border authorities to...Read more
Riots in Kazakhstan have come to an end and the situation is stable, just as it is on the railways. Railway traffic currently runs as usual, is the message of the national railway company Kazakhstan...Read more
The Polish provincial government of Lodz has given the green light to the construction of a new multimodal terminal in Karsznice and has submitted an application for EU funding. If funding is approved, a new...Read more
