It has become an indisputable fact that the freight volume of railway operations between China and Europe has plummeted in 2022, but how steep was the decline? A look at the recent data of UTLC...Read more
The Polish Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) and Ukrainian Railways (Uz) have agreed to start developing a new railway line connecting Poland and Ukraine. Accordingly, it will be the fastest route between the two countries serving...Read more
It is finally happening, RailFreight Summit is taking you to Malaszewicze. The most popular border crossing on the New Silk Road will be the destination of our site visit during the RailFreight Summit Poland 2023. Read more
PKP Cargo has had to lower its expectations of the share it wanted to acquire on the local market. Instead of having a 65 per cent market share by the end of this year, it...Read more
In 2022, Ukrainian Railways reconstructed and overhauled 470 kilometres of railway track, and electrified another 82 kilometres, a record for the Ukrainian infrastructure manager. Connections to neighbouring European countries played a key role in its...Read more
ANALYSISThe Ukrainian Agrarian Council (UAC) appealed to the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, requesting the continuation of the duty-free regime applied to Ukrainian agricultural produce exports. The appeal came as a response...Read more
PKP PLK has got the approval to fully acquire Cargotor by the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. The parties are both involved in the modernisation of Malaszewicze, the border area between Poland and...Read more
Registrations for the RailFreight Summit 2023 are now open. Do you have something to do with rail and with Poland? Then you will want to be at this event, where hundreds of rail professionals gather...Read more
The Austrian crane manufacturer Kuenz has been chosen to supply Baltic Hub’s under-construction T3 terminal with 20 fully automated sideload stacking cranes. The company will deliver the order in cooperation with systems integrator ABB. The...Read more
LTG Cargo and its Polish subsidiary LTG Cargo Polska have started a new service transporting coal between the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and Polish destinations. LTG Cargo moves coal volumes from Klaipeda to the Lithuanian-Polish...Read more
Train drivers of the Polish operator PKP Cargo are in dispute with the management board of their company. They are requesting better wages and working conditions. The trade union representing the drivers, Train Engineers Trade...Read more
Capacity of the Polish Malaszewicze and Biała Podlaska terminals, both near the border with Belarus, will be extended with 13 additional tracks. Three new tracks will be build in Małaszewicze, while Biała Podlaska will be...Read more
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
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
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 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, 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
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
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
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
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