The rail planning system implemented for 2023 in Sweden (MPK) has been quite disruptive for rail freight operations in the country. Many companies are lamenting the lack of timely communication and poor foresight from Trafikverket,...Read more
Collicare, a Norwegian logistics company, will inaugurate a new rail freight service between Italy and Sweden. The first train will be dispatched from Italy on Saturday, 4 February. Swedish company Hector Rail and Dutch BLS...Read more
Samskip has launched a new intermodal service between the port of Rostock and Duisburg in cooperation with Hector Rail. The service connects with the ro-ro services to Scandinavia from the Baltic seaport and runs three...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
Rail freight provider Hector Rail GmbH aims to run its electric locomotives in the greenest way possible. In 2021 the company will start using water as the primary source of its locomotive’s operations. Specifically, Hector...Read more
Ancala Partners LLP, an independent infrastructure investment manager, is taking over Hector Rail AB from EQT. This includes its subsidiary Hector Rail GmbH. The investment firm is doing this on behalf of its European Infrastructure...Read more
Dutch logistics provider Samskip has launched the Coevorden-Nässjö rail freight connection. It is the first link between the Netherlands and Sweden in the company’s network. The rail service will be provided five times per week...Read more
Samskip has launched a new four-times weekly rail shuttle link between the German hub of Duisburg and Falköping in Sweden. The new service connects Sweden’s southern industrial heartland with the rest of Europe.
The new service...Read more
The Danish Transport Authority has granted railway companies Hector Rail and CFL Cargo permission to resume the use of semi-trailers loaded on pocketwagons. It received the necessary documentation ensuring that the locking mechanism is secured,...Read more
Swedish transport Hector Rail has moved to strengthen its position in the German and continental European marketplace with a key new management appointment. Stig Kyster Hansen has become the firm’s Managing Director for its Germany...Read more
The Swedish mining company LKAB has signed a new haulage contract with freight logistics supplier Hector Rail for the period of five years. The contract will be effective from December 2017.
Hector Rail is an important...Read more
Austria-based Innofreight has joined forces with German leasing specialists VTG to develop the custom-made ‘Innowagon’ for transporting logs in Sweden. It marks a new era in the two firms’ 12-year partnership, and is a significant...Read more
Swedish transporter Hector Rail is expanding the use of its innovative electricity-generating locomotives through a new deal with SCA Skog to transport wood to sawmills in northern Sweden. This latest innovation is more good news...Read more