New piggyback service Barcelona – Bettembourg
Renfe Mercancias and SNCF-owned rail freight company Viia have started a piggyback service between Barcelona and Bettembourg in Luxembourg. The first train departed on 20 February. It is for the first time that this type...Read moreHupac Group recovers Rastatt and low Rhine losses
Hupac Group witnessed an increase of traffic volumes by 21.4 per cent last year. The recovery of traffic losses due to the Rhine disruption in 2017, the Rastatt disaster and the acquisition of ERS Railways...Read more
Hupac reroutes traffic in face of Danish pocketwagon ban
Hupac has offered alternative routes to Denmark and Sweden as it is currently not permitted to operate pocketwagon trains in Denmark. The ban will be lifted with the right measures, which the intermodal operators says...Read moreHupac adds Oradea and Stara Zagora to intermodal network
Hupac has added the southeastern European cities of Stara Zagora (Bulgaria) and Oradea (Romania) to its European railway network. It links these destinations to important freight hubs in Europe, such as Duisburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp. The...Read more
‘Public funding for Gateway Basel Nord creates unfair competition’
Swissterminal, a provider of container terminal services in the Swiss area of Basel, has lodged a formal complaint against the federal funding for the planned container terminal project Gateway Basel Nord. The funding creates unfair...Read more
Hupac launches new railway connection Rotterdam-Kornwestheim
Swiss intermodal operator Hupac is launching a new direct rail connection between the Maasvlakte at the Port of Rotterdam and Kornwestheim in the industrial area of Stuttgart and Baden-Württemberg. From 7 October, a shuttle will...Read more
Hupac starts automated train inspection in Busto Arsizio
Hupac has officially opened its automated rail portal in the Terminal Busto Arsizio-Gallarate. Here, it applies Optical Character Recognition (OCR), a solution for automated train inspection, identification and inventor. The technology is an important feature that...Read moreHupac launches new services Antwerp-Eastern Germany
Hupac has introduced new and additional services between Antwerp and Eastern Germany. It has launched a new, regular connection to Schkopau, and increased the frequency of the trains to Schwarzheide. The service between Antwerp Combinant...Read more
TX Logistiks offers new service Duisburg-Busto Arsizio
TX Logistik has started an intermodal service connecting the German hub of Duisburg and Busto Arsizio in the north of Italy. In Duisburg, it calls on the Samskip Multimodal Rail Terminal at Duisburg Hohenbudberg. On...Read more100 million Euros injected in Gateway Basel Nord
The Swiss government has committed to invest 71 million Euros (83 million Swiss francs) in Gateway Basel Nord. In addition, Gateway Basel Nord AG (GBN) is contributing another 40 million Euros (47 million Swiss francs),...Read more
Hupac: flat rate for transalpine transport from 2024
A flat rate for transalpine intermodal trains could cover the Swiss subsidy gap, suggested Hupac at its Annual Event in Zurich on 1 June. Swiss subsidies for combined transport on this corridor will be phased...Read moreHupac prepares for Swiss rail without subsidies
Hupac has been preparing itself for the abolition of the Swiss subsidies for combined transport at the end of 2023. In order to compensate for the abolition without losing competitiveness compared with road, it has...Read more
Takeover ERS Railways by Hupac gives access to German port
Hupac will take over the share capital of ERS Railways, including ERS’s 47 per cent stake in BoxXpress. The network offered by ERS out of the German ports complements Hupac’s hinterland network focused on Antwerp...Read moreHupac offers new services from north of Italy to Rotterdam, Zeebrugge and Cologne
Intermodal operator Hupac launches a new connection from the north of Italy, in addition to increasing existing services this month. This weekend, a new service between and Rotterdam will commence. The Novara-Zeebrugge service will be...Read moreDB Netz CEO regrets Rastatt effects
The head of German rail network manager DB Netz has expressed his ‘regret’ for the knock-on problems caused to rail freight stakeholders by this summer’s Rastatt landslip incident. CEO Frank Sennhenn told a summit of...Read moreHupac signs new Chinese partnership for flat wagons
China’s CRCC International Corporation Ltd has signed a contract with Swiss intermodal specialist Hupac to provide it with flat wagons. The deal includes EU certification and wagon registration at the Swiss Federal Office of Transport. The...Read more