DB Cargo and Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail will start testing operations with 740-metre long freight trains end of this August. This is part of the measure package that was proposed by the Dutch government last...Read more
The discussion about the re-opening of the Iron Rhine, or Steel Rhine has re-opened. Last week, the German and Flemish governments joined hands in making an appeal for the re-opening of the railway line, connecting...Read more
The Netherlands witnessed a decline in overall freight traffic on its railway network last year. Rail freight volumes through the Port of Rotterdam dropped with nine per cent, while the tonnage of cargo moved to...Read more
A disruption in railway services on the route between Basel and Karlsruhe has caused a major standstill of rail freight transport between western Europe and Italy. Many freight trains have stranded, resulting in losses running...Read more
More than 17,000 freight trains have passed through the Gotthard Base Tunnel since its opening in June last year, revealed Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Though the construction of what became world’s longest railway tunnel has...Read more
Rail transport of dangerous chemicals through the Netherlands may face ‘route enforcements’ if measures announced by Dutch government are to be implemented end of this year. Secretary of State Sharon Dijksma (Infrastructure) has proposed to...Read more
Rail freight between the Netherlands and Italy has surged with two-third between 2010 and 2016, concluded Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The Netherlands ships twice as much freight by rail than by road transport to Italy.
Accounting for...Read more