Topic: Latvian Railway

Freight train units at Liepāja railway station, Latvia. License link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/104021946@N05/20095996229

Latvian Railway fears severe impact from dropping volumes

The lack of traffic from Belarus and Russia, which is impossible to replace fully, and the continuously dropping rail freight volumes have the Latvian Railway cornered. According to the Latvian transport minister Tālis Linkaits, the...Read more

01-04-2022|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

Locomotives in Belarus. Photo: Artem Svetlov

Mobile app for digital rail freight Belarus

Belarusian Railways has presented a new mobile app, allowing rail freight operations to become fully digital. The app comes after the implementation of the electronic document in transit transportation on the Latvia-Belarus-Russia corridor. The launch of...Read more

14-01-2019|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

One Belt, One Road, One Million on broad gauge track

‘One Belt, One Road, One Million’, is the current motto of UTLC regarding their practices on the New Silk Road. “We can handle one million TEUs, we have the capacity”, Larisa Kuznetsova said confident. The...Read more

29-06-2018|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

TACs: ‘Era of charging based only on cost allocation is over’

Track Access Charges expert Justina Hudenko believes the era of charging based only on cost allocation is over. The Chair of LatRailNet, the allocation & charging subsidiary body of Latvian Railway, will be sharing her ideas...Read more

25-01-2018|Comment|author: Simon Weedy