Rail Cargo Group connects Łódź and Istanbul on New Silk Road
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has launched a new freight train running between two intermodal hubs – Łódź and Istanbul. The new service improves the transportation of goods throughout eastern, southern and southeastern Europe and connects...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
New direct railway link Netherlands-Poland
A new rail connection between Wroclaw in Poland and Moerdijk in the Netherlands is in the final stages of completion. On 9 October, the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Cora van Nieuwenhuizen visits...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 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
Punctuality of rail freight Poland drops further
Poland is witnessing a growing decline in punctuality rates of freight trains. In the second quarter of this year the average delay in minutes was almost 630 minutes, indicating a 16.6 per cent increase compared...Read moreSchavemaker extends rail terminal Poland to increase capacity
Logistics company Schavemaker is extending its inland rail terminal in Wroclaw, Poland to be able to handle more trains and increase storage capacity, anticipating growing cargo volumes in the near future. To be precise, the intermodal...Read more
Kaliningrad: a sea link on New Silk Road
Two Memorandums of Strategic Cooperation between JSC United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC) and Kaliningrad Railway with the ports of Kaliningrad ensure the inclusion of a new sea link on the multimodal cargo route between...Read more
Investment on the Polish E20 line: improvement or waste of money?
Almost half a billion Euros costs the modernisation of the Poznan-Warsaw section of the TENT-T corridor connecting Berlin – Warsaw – Brest. Poland argues that the work is of great importance to the rail freight...Read more
Increased speed and capacity on key Polish-Belarussian border
A 118 kilometer section of railway between the Polish cities of Siedlce and Terespol will be modernised, in an effort to improve the technical parameters of a line that directly connects to the most important...Read more
New rail freight service Warsaw-Ganzhou
A new freight train service linking Warsaw with Ganzhou was launched last week. It is one of many new links between Europe and China, but among the first linking eastern China’s Jiangxi Province with the...Read more