Freight and Terminal Forum – Live Blog Day 1
On 26, 27, and 28 March the Freight and Terminal Forum is taking place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This is the live blog, with news…
Requesting terminal and train path capacity in one single procedure
Terminal capacity in Europe is requested after a train path is allocated, while terminal access is often the bottleneck in the transport chain. An integrated…
And the nominees for the RailFreight Innovation Awards are…
The nominees for the RailFreight Innovation Awards have been announced. These awards are given to the best innovative product or concept within the rail freight…
Free workshops at Freight and Terminal Forum
The first high-speed railway service for freight, the Swiss modal shift policy or the SBB-led project towards automated coupling; all these have in common that…
Small inland terminals lose traffic to large European hubs
While some European hubs are growing in terms of freight traffic volumes, this leads to the marginalisation of some smaller, inland terminals. Truckers rather opt…
Russia eyes distribution centres on EU border
Russia is looking for new, modern distribution centres just at the border with Europe. In this way, it wants to facilitate the large cargo volumes…
Google Glass to check containers at Wiencont
The Austrian hinterland terminal Wiencont will test the use of Google Glass this year to check incoming containers. Normally this work is done manually by…
Free webinar about terminal efficiency for rail
On first sight, terminal efficiency may not seem to be a typical rail freight topic. However, rail and terminal are intrinsically linked. They depend on…
‘Terminal strategy is key, but almost absent in Europe’
“At the end of the day, improving rail terminal efficiency is a question of being competitive with the entire logistics chain”, said Ralf Charley Schultze,…