More charges for road freight one step closer with vote on EC proposal
The proposal of the European Commission to charge the transport of freight per road on a more equal basis with rail is one step closer with the approval by the European Parliament Transport and Tourism...Read more
‘Important EU railway projects secured under post-2020 budget’
At least thirty billion Euros has been allocated to the European transport subsidy programme Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). It now looks like the investments in important railway projects such as the TEN-T corridors and the...Read more
More EU funding needed for completion TEN-T network
Over forty stakeholders from the transport and related sectors jointly unveiled the Ljubljana Declaration, asking for an increased EU budget for the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) under the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). This is...Read more
‘Complete harmonisation EU Rail Freight Corridors in 2030 not possible’
Representatives of the European freight industry gathered in Brussels yesterday to discuss how interoperability could be improved on 15,000 kilometre of railway track, connecting the economically most powerful regions of the European continent. It was...Read more
ERFA welcomes French rail freight sidings grant
The European Commission’s 60 million Euros state aid grant for new rail freight sidings in France has been hailed as an example of modal shift support for governments to follow. Lobbying body the European Rail Freight...Read more
EU’s Violeta Bulc launches ‘Year of Multimodality’
EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc is leading a campaign for 2018 to be the ‘Year of Multimodality’. The European Commission is planning policy initiatives and events to promote the benefits of multimodal transport. The European Commission says...Read more
Freight innovators could share in new Shift2Rail funding
The European Union-backed Shift2Rail project is inviting the most innovative rail freight proposals to share in a new finance package worth more than 155 million Euros. Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) has announced its latest Call...Read more
CER and ETF work plan focuses on freight
A special focus on rail freight forms part of a joint work plan by the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) and the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER). Following a meeting in Brussels, the...Read more
Romania state aid for rail freight operator probed by EU
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Romanian state support for rail freight operator CFR Marfa. The EC says debt write-offs may have given the company an unfair advantage. As the body which oversees...Read moreEC approves Italian rail freight funding scheme
The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to an Italian funding scheme aimed at supporting the shift of freight from road to rail in the northern province of Bolzano. Running until 2019 and with...Read more
Rail partners’ declaration on Digitalisation of Railways
A group of Europe’s most influential rail stakeholders and associations have collaborated to issue a declaration on the development of digital-based railways, calling on the European Commission to ‘uphold digitalisation’ as a key priority and...Read more
Live stream: EU Railways Agency conference on ERTMS
A live stream is currently available for a conference on ERTMS being staged today and tomorrow (Nov 15-16) by the EU Agency for Railways (ERA) in Valenciennes, France. The Control Command and Railway Communication Conference aims...Read more
ERFA backs new EU rules for creating ‘customer-oriented’ railways
Proposed new EU rules aimed at creating a more customer-oriented rail freight network have received the formal backing of the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA). The body which represents more than 30 members across Europe...Read more
European rail freight ETA data project up and running
Ad Toet, Director of the Dutch rail freight employers’ organisation KNV (Koninklijk Nederlands Vervoer) is now officially spearheading its tenureship of the European project on the ‘real time’ exchange of freight train arrival data. It...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 moreEC approves Danish scheme to help rail freight operators fund ERTMS
A Danish scheme designed to support its national rail freight operators invest in the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on-board traffic management equipment has been formally approved by the European Commission. Between 2018 and 2023,...Read more