Hupac keeps adding connections from Rotterdam and Duisburg to Vienna. The service between Duisburg-Vienna has been upgraded and has already been running six weekly roundtrips since 14 June. As for Rotterdam-Vienna, the service will run...Read more
Maersk has organised another eastbound block train, this time connecting South-Eastern Europe and China. Departing from Madrid in Spain, the train’s final destination in China is Nasha, a district of Guangdong province. Maersk organised the...Read more
Samskip Multimodal and traction partner Hector Rail successfully restarted trailer traffic through Denmark this week. On Monday 31 May, the first train departed from Duisburg in Germany to Sweden, with containers as well as trailers....Read more
The Turkey-based logistics company Mars Logistics will launch a new connection between the Halkali terminal in Istanbul and the Kolin terminal in the Czech Republic. The new service will have an intermodal profile providing transportation...Read more
Per the 1st of June, a new intermodal service will connect the German hub of Duisburg with Poznan in Poland. Three roundtrips per week are scheduled between the inland port and Poznan. The service is...Read more
A digital meeting place for those who are hiring or wish to be hired along the New Silk Road. That is in short the Platform for the Transport and Logistics Career Center, developed by UTLC...Read more
The fast-developing rail freight transport between China and Europe led Duisport and PSA Northeast Asia Supply Chain Pte Ltd to join forces in a joint venture. They sealed an agreement to establish a company under...Read more
The high demand for services led Rail Cargo Group to add another weekly itinerary in its TransFER Linz-Wels-Duisburg route. Beginning on April 5, the service will have four roundtrips between the three locations every week....Read more
Following the end of the Chinese New Year’s festivities and the restart of services, Davies Turner decided to reduce its rail freight service rates between China and the UK. Rate reductions will start taking place...Read more
Nippon Express has launched a new regular service from Suzhou, in eastern China. Once per week a train departs to Europe, stopping in the Polish hub of Malaszewicze and the German nodes Hamburg and Duisburg....Read more
A combination of train and barge resulted in the delivery of a train load of Chinese goods to the French city of Valenciennes. Approximately forty 40 ft containers arrived at the Contargo terminal on Tuesday...Read more
Samskip multimodal operator identified that freight traffic through Poland is going to play a crucial role in growing its business in 2021. The company, which links the UK and European hinterland through Dutch ports, estimates...Read more
Kombiverkehr has added another terminal in the port of Rotterdam to its European intermodal network. Four times a week, trains of the Frankfurt-based operator will connect the Rotterdam Europoort P&O terminal with Duisburg Ruhrort Hafen...Read more
DB Cargo and Kombiverkehr are expanding their shuttle service between the port of Antwerp and Duisburg. From now on, up to 90 TEUs can be transported per train rather than the previous 60 TEUs. The...Read more
Duisburg has reported record figures of rail-based merchandise traffic with China in April. Last month, the inland port of Duisport registered an increase to approximately 50 trains a week. Normally, between 35 and 40 trains...Read more
UK logistics operator and freight forwarder Davies Turner has restarted its fixed-day, weekly direct import service from China to the UK. The rail departure terminal is Xi’an. The original departure terminal for the service, Wuhan,...Read more
Germany’s largest inland terminal Duisburg has objected to the expansion of rail terminal Venlo, situated on the Dutch-German border. The expansion is supported by the Dutch province of Limburg and this is considered state support,...Read more
China Rail Container Transport, which belongs to China State Railway Group, has established a subsidiary in Germany with an office in Duisburg. It thereby emphasises the importance of Duisburg for rail freight traffic between Europe...Read more
