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
Container traffic Poland-Koper reaches new milestone
Container traffic between Poland and the Slovenian port of Koper has reached a new milestone. In 2018, Baltic Rail delivered 13,464 TEUs of goods, demonstrating a volume increase of 30 per cent compared to 2017....Read more
Belarus to open new railway border crossing with Poland
Belarusian Railway is to revive the Visoko-Litovsk/Czeremcha railway crossing on the Polish border. The abandoned facility is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of this year. The measure is in response to the increased...Read more
Poland to add new tracks near Małaszewicze terminal
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 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
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