By the end of this year, a new terminal will be opened in Mostyska, the hub in the making on the Polish-Ukrainian border. “The opportunities are many. So many, that we may not be able...Read more
Last week, the RailFreight Summit 2021 was held in Lodz, Poland. This week, we look back at the successful event. We show snippets of interesting speakers and discussions. We also visited the PCC terminal in...Read more
“The Belt and Road Initiative is about politics. If Poland wants to further consolidate its position on the New Silk Road, it needs government intervention and coordination.” This was said by Bartosz Baca, the managing...Read more
Poland will be the biggest beneficiary of the upcoming EU financial perspective for 2021–2027. Around 170 billion euros is expected to be dedicated to the country. In total, 16 billion euros has been set aside...Read more
Rail freight performance in Poland showed a decrease last year, but did reltalively well considering the pandemic that impacted the overall figures of rail. Moreover, intermodal transport is the real winner and showed an increase...Read more
The International Łódź Airport wants to expand its services and become a logistics hub for central Europe. It’s home to a vast infrastructure that can extend more and acquire rail and road links. If Łódź...Read more
Hupac will add a new terminal to its network. Duisburg Hohenbudberg will be the company’s new stop on the way to Poland, while it will also open new opportunities for connections to southern Germany and...Read more
Laude Smart Intermodal S.A has designed a new high-capacity container: the 40’ SBOT. The Polish logistics company has explicitly developed the container for transportation between China and Europe. Its primary characteristic concerns the increase of...Read more
Ukraine finds itself amidst a boom of rail freight-related developments. The country is a well-known transit hub for Eurasian traffic, and its potential has been discussed before. However, its railway market has a lot to...Read more
Today, Friday 16 July, our special RailFreight Live webinar takes place at 13:00 CEST. Join us on our road trip to Łódź, Poland! During the one-hour free webinar, you will get a preview of what...Read more
PCC Intermodal and Pesa Bydgoszcz, a Polish manufacturer of railway vehicles have signed a contract for the delivery of three new electric locomotives of the GAMA platform. The dual-drive 111DE locomotives will be deployed in...Read more
RailFreight.com is on a road trip in Lodz, and would like to take you along. We organise a webinar called RailFreight Live, Road Trip to Lodz on Friday 16 July, 1-2pm CEST. In this webinar,...Read more
The Zamość terminal near the Polish-Ukrainian border is to be expanded to respond to the growing number of Europe-China trains passing through this border. The expansion will take place in the third quarter of this...Read more
PCC Intermodal and Alstom have signed a contract for the delivery of four brand new Traxx MS3 multisystem locomotives, together with the provision of full maintenance service. They signed an agreement towards this end on...Read more
PKP Energetyka, the electricity distributor to the Polish railway network, has launched a new traction energy storage facility. According to the company, it is the largest facility in Europe of its kind, and it can...Read more
Last Friday, a first test train with plants from Railport Brabant in Tilburg travelled to the rail terminal Rzepin in Poland. The service involved three cooperating parties: forwarder Mandersloot, plant exporter Royal Lemkes and logistics...Read more
The importance of Poland has once again been confirmed. A representative of the Polish infrastructure manager, PKP PLK, has been appointed as the manager of the Trans-European Railway project. This UNECE-led project is a sub-regional...Read more
With only the summer months separating us from our next event, it is a pleasure to share that the programme of the RailFreight Summit in Lodz is now complete. More than 20 speakers from around...Read more
