What will Germany do about the Hanover-Hamburg-Bremen rail axis?
One of the main rail projects in Germany is the upgrade of the infrastructure connecting Bremen, Hamburg, and Hanover. However, the government and the industry seem to have different opinions on how this initiative should...Read more
Olaf Scholz visits Beijing: ‘The world needs China’
The train coming from Hamburg, prepared for the China International Import Expo (CIIE), successfully reached the exhibition in Shanghai on 6 November. The train departed on 26 September from Hamburg, passed through Poland, Belarus, and...Read more
German delegation to deepen trade relations with China
German chancellor Olaf Scholz will lead a government delegation to China this November. He will become the first western leader to visit the country after Xi Jinping secured a third leadership term and introduced a...Read more
China-Europe: new energy vehicles fever sees multiple services launched
Xi’an, Zhengzhou and Chengdu all launched new China-Europe rail services in October. Their common denominator? New energy vehicles (NEVs) occupy the train capacity and provide a glimpse of Silk Road cargo trends. The new cargo...Read more
COSCO will not own the port of Hamburg, HHLA guarantees
COSCO is about to finalise the acquisition of 35 per cent shares of the Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT), managed by HHLA. This procedure has been worrying the German federal government, which is assessing whether COSCO’s...Read more
COSCO at Tollerort: Hamburg says yes, German government says no
Robert Habeck, the German minister of economy, asked to halt COSCO’s rise in the port of Hamburg. The Chinese company is, in fact, about to finalise the acquisition of shares of the Container Terminal Tollerort...Read more
Pilot project puts DPD’s parcels on rail
DPD Germany wants to transport parcels between its depots in Duisburg and Hamburg by rail. For this purpose, it launched a pilot project in collaboration with Kombiverkehr with daily trains running between the two destinations...Read more
New train from Chinese east coast to Hamburg, Duisburg
A new rail freight service has been launched from Guangzhou on the southeast coast of China, to the main port of Germany: Hamburg. The first train has just arrived in the German port, and the...Read more
Fastest China-Europe train so far? The secret lies in the border crossing
A new rail link was launched recently on the New Silk Road connecting Wuwei, in the Gansu province, with Hamburg in Germany. Unlike others, this new service avoids the busy Malaszewicze border crossing. Instead, it...Read more
New beginning: Shanghai Express arrives in Hamburg
The first container block train from Shanghai reached the DUSS terminal in Hamburg on October 25. It is to be followed by many other westbound, and also eastbound trains, as it lauds in the beginning...Read more
New Hamburg-Shanghai route promises sufficient eastbound volumes
DB Cargo Eurasia launched a new link between Hamburg and Shanghai. The first eastbound train between the two destinations is currently on its way, with the potential to keep exported volumes at a high level.Read more
Kombiverkehr ramps up operations through MegaHub Lehrte
It’s been five months since Kombiverkehr started its services via MegaHub Hannover Lehrte, and the network expansion through the terminal is in full steam. Hamburg and Kiel are two new destinations that will connect with...Read more
The future is now: HHLA presents freight hyperloop concept
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and HyperloopTT are ready to present the HyperPort project: in simple words, a model for transporting containers using hyperloop technology. The two companies are developing this concept to improve...Read more
Nippon Express launches new Europe-China train amidst booming demand
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
Hamburg part of Japan – Europe multimodal route
Hamburg, an important intermodal hub of Germany, has become a part of the Japan/South Korea – Europe multimodal route. In November RZD Logistics performed the first delivery from the German city to the Japanese seaport...Read more
New shuttle train Hamburg-Cologne on track
The new container train connection between Cologne and the seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven has been successfully launched. On Monday evening (6 May), the first shuttle train from Hamburg arrived in Niehler Hafen in Cologne....Read more
Hamburg freight gateway goes big in China
Europe’s biggest rail port is launching a new Chinese website that will offer western rail freight providers enormous marketing potential with the Far East. The Port of Hamburg says bringing down language barriers will help...Read more