Samskip and Hector Rail set up new Duisburg-Rostock line
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 and Hector Rail resume trailer traffic through Denmark
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
Hector Rail takes the extra mile for sustainability
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
Hector Rail taken over by UK investor Ancala Partners
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
New rail freight service between Netherlands and Sweden
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
Rail shuttle link between Duisburg and Falköping launched
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 moreDanish ban on pocketwagons lifted for some companies
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 moreHector Rail’s new Germany MD follows contract wins
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 moreLKAB signs haulage contract with Hector Rail
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
VTG and Innofreight team up to provide log-carrying wagons
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