‘Weights and Dimensions Directive ensures intermodal compatibility’
File: Greening Freight Package With the EU Commission’s proposal for the revision of the Combined Transport Directive (CTD), the Greening Freight Transport Package (GFTP) is now complete and ready to undergo the needed procedures before becoming official. The GFTP...Read more
Elisabeth Werner (DG Move): invest revenues of truck kilometre charge in railways
One of the spearheads in the new Mobility Strategy of the European Union is the pricing of CO2, also for transport. In addition, the proceeds from a kilometre charge for trucks should be used to...Read more
EU considers single window for rail freight
After implementing the Maritime Single Window, the European Commission is considering to extend it to the rail freight sector. This move could be set in a new transport strategy that is currently being developed by...Read more
EU railway companies should ‘get going’ with language pilots
In 2019, railway undertakings may carry out pilot projects to test alternative means of ensuring effective communication during railway operations. The European Commission urges the sector to ‘get going’ with these tests, which are aimed...Read more
‘TEN-T should be revised looking at the Belt and Road initiative’
When the European Commission revises the TEN-T network in 2023 it should consider the possibilities that the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) offers, said Alain Baron of the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG...Read moreEC transport leaders move to avoid a Rastatt repeat
The European Commission is laying down future contingency plans to avoid a repeat of the chaos caused to continental rail freight operations for nearly two months this summer as a result of the Rastatt landslip...Read more
Rail Baltica can deliver increased freight exports
A new cost-benefit analysis on Rail Baltica, an EU initiative linking the Baltic States and Poland with a new standard gauge freight line, says the project can deliver vital socio-economic benefits such as increased exports....Read more
EU rail freight test portal now live
The pilot version of a ‘one-stop-shop’ European web portal detailing rail freight service facilities across the continent can now be accessed online. The railfreightlocations.eu site is a European Union initiative involving a group of rail...Read more
CEOs sign letter supporting ERTMS roll-out
A consortium of companies created to develop the technical elements of the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS) have signed letters of intent committing the project to the next phase. The companies’ CEOs met with European...Read more
Crister Fritzon new Acting Chairman of CER
Crister Fritzon has been appointed as Acting Chairman of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) with immediate effect. Mr Fritzon is Chair of the Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies (ASTOC) and...Read more
Rail Forum Europe demands urgent freight solutions
The ‘time is up for self-pity’ in the rail freight industry, and fast solutions then actions are needed now – that’s the stark message from an influential European rail pressure group. Adequate framework conditions should...Read more