Maersk has done it again. It launched a weekly intermodal rail service in Bulgaria connecting the port of Burgas with Plovdiv and further to Sofia. The service serves two major customers-Jysk Bulgaria, a Danish retail...Read more
As international rail freight superpowers grow, India should not be overlooked. The country is not a new rail freight market. However, it is an extensive and full of possibilities market that seems to take all...Read more
Ikea Supply Chain Operations chooses the train to transport products between the port of Barcelona and the Tarragona terminal in Spain. In collaboration with Maersk, the home furnishing products powerhouse decided to switch from road...Read more
Freight forwarding and logistics operator Newell and Wright is the latest enterprise to take advantage of the potential for the former marshalling yard at Tinsley, which lies on the boundary between the industrial cities of...Read more
Maersk introduced another intermodal service across the Trans-Siberian route connecting the Russian Far East with the Black Sea. Specifically, the new service called AE77 links the VSC Terminal in Vostochny with the NUTEP Terminal at...Read more
Maersk launched a dedicated train service for the Indian automotive industry, branded as the ‘Automotive Express’. It kicked off on 18 April, and it will connect the Garhi Harsaru Inland Container Depot near Delhi with...Read more
Maersk’s AE19 rail service using the Trans-Siberian route is about to experience another increase of trips following its customers’ growing demand. Eastbound trains will now travel once per week instead of every fifteen days, while...Read more
Originating from Euroterminal Slawkow and with DCT Gdansk Terminal as its final destination, an intermodal train wrote history as the heaviest ever in Polish freight transport. It left Slawkow carrying ninety 20-foot containers (90 TEUs...Read more
Maersk’s first block-train linking Japan and the UK arrived on 2 March at Felixstowe. The train that carried forty 40-foot containers left Yokohama in January and used the Trans-Siberian route, through Russia, as part of...Read more
On 8 February a special train arrived at the Polish border crossing of Malaszewicze. Launched by Maersk, it originated from Yiwu (China), to carry essential medical equipment to Poland. Τhe 41-container train left China on...Read more
Maersk has dispatched the first refrigerated containers from Mersin, Turkey, to Moscow’s Selyatino terminal. The containers reached the Russian port of Novorossiysk by vessels through the Black sea and Moscow with a train operated by...Read more
Maersk and China Railway Jinan Bureau Group have agreed to work together in setting up a rail transportation network. To be more precise, the two sides hope to develop and operate the railway logistics hubs...Read more
Shipping company Maersk is planning an investment at logport VI of the port of Duisburg. The project confirmed by both sides will utilise a 100,000 square metres area for the construction of a “trimodal logistics...Read more
Last week, Greenport rail terminal in Venlo received four trains from the city of Jinan, China. The trains were carrying clothing goods of the company PVH. After completing a trip of around 11,000 kilometres, they...Read more
Maersk is once again extending the frequency of its intermodal service between Asia and Europe; the AE19 service that combines shortsea and rail transport. That frequency is now increasing to twice a week. The service...Read more
Maersk has launched its first rail service from Xi’an, China to Izmit, Turkey. This new route, which is part of Maersk Intercontinental Rail service network, will shorten transit time in comparison to the sea route...Read more
Maersk has launched its first eastbound train from St. Petersburg port to Korea and Japan. On 28 March a train loaded with plywood and chemical products from North Europe departed the port of Vostochniy in...Read more
Electronics, car parts or fast-moving consumer goods have already become common good on container trains between China and Russia. In order to increase and improve rail freight traffic between the countries, logistics companies are looking...Read more
