Polish city of Łódź to become rail freight hub
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
PKP Cargo to increase multisystem fleet on Three Seas Corridor
Polish largest rail freight operator PKP Cargo has ordered five Vectron multisystem locomotives. The deal with Siemens Mobility signed on 28 January is worth around 26 million Euros. PKP Cargo will receive the first new locomotives in the...Read more
Polish rail freight operators get more home-produced locomotives
Polish private rail freight operators STK and CTL Logistics have entered into service five brand new Dragon 2 locomotives designed and produced by Polish rolling stock manufacturer Newag. The carriers have become the users of...Read more
Mercitalia takes full control of POL-Rail
Mercitalia, the freight subsidiary of the Italian national railway company FS, has taken complete control over POL-Rail, a former joint venture with the Polish operator PKP Cargo. The Italian company wants to be the sole...Read more
PKP Cargo strengthens business on Baltic-Adriatic corridor
Czech freight operator Advanced World Transport (AWT), subsidiary of Polish PKP Cargo, has purchased Slovenian transport company Primol-Rail. The deal allows the Polish mother company to strengthen its position in Slovenia and to increase the...Read more
PKP Cargo wants to become EU leader on New Silk Road
PKP Cargo, the largest Polish rail freight company, wants to become the European champion of rail freight transportation on the New Silk Road. Such an ambitious goal was documented in the Strategy of PKP Cargo...Read more
PKP Cargo purchases brand new Polish-made locomotives
PKP Cargo, EU’s second largest railway freight carrier, will upgrade its fleet with three brand new locomotives Dragon 2. All of them were designed and produced by Newag, a Polish rolling stock manufacturer. PKP Cargo has...Read more
The Poland-Belarus border crossing: what are the alternatives?
Five border crossings assure the movement of goods between Poland and Belarus. But are all these border crossings operative? And at which capacity? These questions and more were addressed at the New Silk Road Conference,...Read more
All cases of theft on the New Silk Road took place in Europe
All instances of theft on the New Silk Road take place in Europe. A second bridge between Malaszewicze-Brest should speed up traffic, and customs clearing could be done before the train hits the track to...Read more
PKP Cargo: ‘New Silk Road is a priority for Poland’
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
Why Malaszewicze is the most debated place on the New Silk Road
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
PKP Cargo to buy 936 railway platforms, largest purchase ever
PKP Cargo has announced a tender for the purchase of 936 railway platforms to support its growing intermodal business. The purchase is co-funded by EU funds and is the largest such purchase the company has...Read morePKP Cargo: Malaszewicze border no longer bottleneck on Eurasian railway
In no way can the border of Małaszewicze be called a ‘bottleneck’ on the New Silk Road. The problems have been solved and the terminal currently has forty per cent of spare processing capacity. Train...Read more
PKP Cargo may produce rolling stock fueled by hydrogen
Polish operator PKP Cargo and coal mining company JSW are studying the possibilities of using hydrogen as fuel to power trains. New types of shunting locomotives and freight wagons could be powered by hydrogen fuel. The...Read more
How PKP Cargo expands its business on the Baltic-Adriatic corridor
PKP Cargo is negotiating a partnership with Mercitalia Rail to improve cooperation on the Baltic-Adriatic corridor between Wroclaw and Tarvisio. It is the latest in a series of attempts to improve access to the Adriatic...Read more
Logistic services on Poland-Romanian corridor to improve
Freight forwarder PKP Cargo and the Port of Gdansk Authority have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Romanian state rail cargo operator CFR Marfa and the Port of Constanta Authority. The agreement is set to...Read more