Nippon Express has launched a new regular service from Suzhou, in eastern China. Once per week a train departs to Europe, stopping in the Polish hub of Malaszewicze and the German nodes Hamburg and Duisburg....Read more
In the past few years, many new routes have sprung up on the New Silk Road. With the continuously rising popularity of rail transportation between Europe and China, there was need of alternatives to the...Read more
Cargotor, a subsidiary of PKP Cargo, is planning to develop the rail infrastructure in the Małaszewicze Reloading Region. As a result, the capacity of this important hub on the New Silk Road will increase by...Read more
Polish rail freight operator Lotos Kolej has shifted from renting to owning the flat wagons. It has added 22 new units to its fleet. They will allow the company to run the existing container trains...Read more
PKP Cargo Connect, a subsidiary of PKP Cargo, has launched new rail freight services between Poland and Italy. They provide a reliable link from important hubs as Gdańsk and Małaszewicze to the Italian junction of...Read more
Polish rail freight operator PKP Cargo is planning the first container train to the Chinese city of Xi’an that will be loaded with food products. It will run via Russia and, therefore, will be equipped...Read more
DCT Gdansk, the only deep-water terminal on the Baltic Sea, has inaugurated its first container train service to/from China. It provides a faster connection than ocean shipping between the Chinese city of Xi’an and the...Read more
The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad is gaining significance on the New Silk Road as more and more logistics companies turn to the region’s railway border crossings with Poland. The latest service launched is Silkway Amber,...Read more
Poland is actively improving the rail infrastructure at the Małaszewicze border crossing with Belarus. Several projects including a new bridge via the Bug River should be completed by 2023 in order to increase the capacity...Read more
Thursday 16 May is the second day of the RailFreight Summit 2019, taking place in the Polish city of Gdansk. Today’s discussions are dedicated to intermodal hubs in Poland and the emerging rail markets in...Read more
Wednesday 15 May is the first day of the RailFreight Summit 2019, which takes place in Gdansk, Poland. This liveblog provides broadcasting of presentations and panel discussions at the conference. Today’s main topic is rail...Read more
PKP Cargo is planning to establish a rail freight hub in the centre of Poland, in the city of Łódź. It is to form the centre of freight transport in the country, which has seen...Read more
Polish railway infrastructure manager PKP PLK plans to install additional broad gauge tracks at the Terespol border station in Poland. This will increase the capacity of the Terespol-Brest crossing to Belarus. Moreover, it alleviates pressure...Read more
Polish railway operator PKP Cargo is investing heavily in its services, responding to the growing volumes of rail freight traffic between Europe and Asia. About 250 million Euros per year is spent in what the...Read more
In the rail journey from Europe to China, the border crossing of Malaszewicze is one of the main bottlenecks, many have stated. But Polish operator PKP Cargo said last week that the problems have been...Read more
