


Ukraine to open 6 more border points for rail freight to Europe
Ukrainian Railways plans to open six additional border crossings for rail freight to Europe. Three facilities will be added on the border with Poland, two on the border with Romania and one on the border...Read more
GATX and GASPOL join forces to supply Poland with LPG
GASPOL, Poland’s largest gas supplier, will use GATX’s LPG railcars to transport Liquefied Petroleum Gas from the port of Gdansk to its terminals in the country. The Polish company stopped importing gas from Russia already...Read more
Ukrainian agrarians want a broad gauge connection to Gdansk
The All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council (BAP) and the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Forum (VAF) asked the Polish government to build railway lines equipped with the Russian broad rail gauge. With this appeal, Ukrainian agrarians hope to connect Poland,...Read more
Hupac to launch new shuttle train between Belgium and Poland
Hupac will launch a new shuttle train service between Belgium and Poland. Starting on 8 November, three weekly trains will connect the Combinant Terminal in Antwerp with the Metrans terminal in Poznan/Gadki. This service is...Read more
LTG Cargo Polska puts Cedrob’s chicken feed on the rail
LTG Cargo Polska, the Polish subsidiary of LTG Cargo, will start transporting poultry cargo on rail on behalf of Cedrob, one of Poland’s largest poultry producers. LTG Cargo Polska will start with 20 weekly roundtrips...Read more
Spain and Poland are now closer thanks to CFL and KLOG
CFL Multimodal from Luxembourg has launched a new rail freight service between Sète, in southern France, and Poznan, in Western Poland. For now, there will be one roundtrip per week, as a spokesperson from CFL...Read more
Hupac launches new rail freight service between Italy and Poland
Starting from mid-October, Hupac will offer a new intermodal service connecting Pordenone, in north-eastern Italy, and Gliwice, in southern Poland. The Gliwice-Pordenone service will start on 10 October, while departures from Italy to Poland will...Read more
New door-to-door service from Southern Italy to Czech Republic
A new connection between Italy and the main industrial centers in Czech Republic has been launched. The rail service connects the terminals of Manopello – In-terporto Abruzzo in Southern Italy and Ostrava-Mošnov. The company train...Read more
New train on the rails to bring e-commerce from China to Poland
A new postal rail freight service has been launched on 16 September, bringing parcels from Xi’an, the capital of the Shaanxi province, to Malaszewice in Poland. The service is provided by Xi’an Free Trade Port...Read more
Rail for Ukrainian grain exports: a necessity or the future?
Before the war in Ukraine, only 11 per cent of all exports was done by rail. In the period March-July, rail handled 41 per cent of the cargo flow, almost as much as the seaports,...Read more
More cargo on Ukraine-Poland rail, this time it could be coal
The Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal discussed the possibility that Ukraine could open the quotas for coal export to Poland and mobilise some million tons of the fuel, probably by rail. A few days ago,...Read more
Freight on rail from Spain to Poland? Kombiverkehr made it possible
Kombiverkehr has launched a new rail freight service that will connect Spain to Poland via Germany. The new service will link the intermodal terminal Barcelona Can Tunis with Duisburg. From there, goods can be transported...Read more
Poland will also prioritise coal transport by rail this winter
After Germany, Poland becomes the second country to prioritise coal transport by rail. “PKP will have to prioritise coal transport by rail instead of passengers and other freight,” confirmed Jakub Walczak from the Polish Road...Read more
RailFreight Summit Poland starts tomorrow, watch it online
EVENTThe RailFreight Summit Poland starts tomorrow, Wednesday 7 September. It is going to be a record-breaking edition with over 300 industry professionals attending. If you cannot travel to Warsaw for this two-day industry event, you...Read more
Metrans expands its network in Poland and Turkey
Metrans has launched new rail freight services that will expand its network from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The services will respectively connect Turkey with Slovakia and Poland with the Czech Republic. The...Read more
These terminals have helped Ukraine-Poland rail freight flow this year
In the past few months, rail freight between Poland and Ukraine has taken on a whole new role. Several terminals were added to the network to facilitate the new trade route this summer, such as...Read more
EBRD gives 100 million euros lifeline to Ukrainian Railways
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will grant an additional 98,8 million euros to the Ukrainian Railways in an attempt to resolve urgent liquidity issues and ensure the seamless continuation of cargo and passenger...Read more
Malaszewicze no longer an EU priority, focus on Ukraine
Billions of euros are invested in the railway network of Poland. It is the largest beneficiary of EU funds, and its own government has doubled the investment amount for rail this year. Yet, the new...Read more
Just a week until the RailFreight Summit kicks off in Warsaw
In a week from now, the RailFreight Summit in Poland kicks off. The programme is complete, the site tour ready and the last tickets are being sold. Here is what is happening next week in...Read more