CER begins European Year of Rail with new Executive Director
For the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), the year 2021 marks a change of leadership. The new Executive Director, Alberto Mazzola, has officially entered office. He was unanimously elected by the CER...Read more
Who profits from the soaring container prices?
“In all my years working in this industry, I have never seen anything this crazy”, says Osmo Lahtinen, the founder of the Finnish container leasing company OVL. The ‘crazy’ refers to the different situations in...Read more
Kombiverkehr adds new intermodal service via Brenner Pass
Kombiverkehr KG announced the launching of an additional direct train service between Verona (Italy) and Lübeck (Germany). From Lübeck, cargo will be transhipped on sea vessels to reach Sweden. The train will begin its operations...Read more
European wines or Chinese tea in original quality
The EU and China signed a bilateral agreement to protect 100 European Geographical Indications (GIs) in China and 100 Chinese GIs in the European Union against usurpation and imitation. A GI indicates a specific geographical...Read more
RailFreight China goes live
Since today, 17 July, the Chinese version of the website is live: RailFreight.cn. Since the launch of RailFreight.com in 2016, the website has been expanding to bring news about the international rail freight industry to...Read more
Scientists: European Silk Road should help recover Europe post-corona
A European Silk Road could contribute to the recovery of Europe after COVID-19. Alternatively, a network of high-speed railway lines should help restoring the continent. This was concluded by Economists at the Vienna Institute for...Read more
44 billion of railway projects on the North Sea-Baltic Corridor
On the North Sea-Baltic Corridor, huge investments are foreseen in railway as a transport mode over the next ten years. An amount of 44 billion Euros has been reserved so far, this is the highest...Read more
Lineas and ERFA link up for competitive rail freight market
ERFA’s Board of Directors welcomes the addition of Lineas to its membership. The European lobby organisation for rail transport believes that Lineas, in cooperation with other ERFA members, will have a key role to play...Read more
2019: the year of a much-needed reboot
Today is the last day of the year 2019, a good moment to look back at a very interesting year for rail freight in Europe. Four industry leaders look back, and share their ambitions for...Read more
The Netherlands has most congested railway network of Europe
The Netherlands had the most congested railway network of Europe in 2016. It operated almost 50 thousand train kilometre per route kilometre. The most intensively used networks are all in the north-west, including the United...Read more
The Western End of the New Silk Road
Do not just look at the New Silk Road from a western perspective, plead Richard T. Griffiths, one of the speakers at the Silk Road Summit in Poland last week. “Europe must settle its own...Read more
Re-design of European timetable starts in December
A pilot phase proposing radical changes to the railway timetabling procedures of Europe starts in December 2017. Currently, international train operations are difficult to coordinate due to a lack of harmonised timetabling procedures between European...Read more
New block train service Budapest-Cologne
A new block train service now runs between Budapest in Hungary and Cologne in Germany. The service has been launched by Ekol Logistics, which provides several other connections through Europe. “We are very happy to...Read more
Twenty Chinese cities on Eurasian rail freight network
With a new rail freight line linking the north-western Chinese province of Qinghai with the European part of Russia, the number of Chinese cities connected to Europe by rail has reached twenty. Up till now,...Read moreIran reports major boost in freight transport per rail
Rail freight transport volumes in Iran have increased rapidly since March this year. In the period 21st of March – 8th of August, transit of goods via railway increased by 55 per cent compared the...Read more
DB cargo sees increase refugees on freight trains
There has been an increase in the number of refugees that hide under freight trains to enter the country of arrival in the last few months. In Germany, police found hundred refugees in July alone while...Read more