Port of Rotterdam: throughput drops up till 20% this year due to coronavirus
The Port of Rotterdam Authority is anticipating a drop in cargo throughput of 10 to 20 per cent this year, as a result of the corona crisis. This says CEO Allard Castelein in the quarterly...Read more
Rail collision in Antwerp disrupts freight traffic
Rail freight transport within the port of Antwerp has been seriously disrupted due to a collision of a locomotive and a freight train at the entrance of the Liefkenshoek rail tunnel. This piece of infrastructure,...Read more
New intermodal offer Schweinfurt – Rotterdam, Antwerp and Moerdijk
The partners CTS and IGS are linking their intermodal networks via the container terminal Cologne Niehl Hafen. As a result, they now link the economic region of Schweinfurt to the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and...Read more
Antwerp wants to double rail freight share in 10 years
The share of rail transport in the port of Antwerp should doubled in the coming decade. This concerns the transport of containers coming in by ship to the hinterland. Port of Antwerp, Railport Antwerp and...Read more
Schweizerzug changes connections to Rotterdam and Antwerp
The rail freight network of Schweizerzug connecting Switzerland with the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam will see some changes starting 16 December. The direct roundtrip between Frenkendorf near Basel and the German city of Neuss...Read moreBelgian and Czech partners build new terminal in Ostrava
A new container terminal will be constructed in the Mošnov, a strategic industrial zone near Ostrava in Czech Republic. Amongst others, the new terminal will link the Moravian-Silesian Region with one of Europe’s largest ports...Read more
Belgium launches customs tool to speed up e-commerce transport
The Belgium Customs and Excise Department has launched BE-GATE, a customs platform to simplify the import and export of goods. The portal, which was specially designed for the growth market of e-commerce, serves to accelerate...Read more
Railtraxx and Captrain Belgium merge into single company
Railtraxx and SNCF-subsidiary Captrain Belgium have merged to operate as one company called Railtraxx. Beginning of April, SNCF had taken over the Belgian carrier RailTraxx. The French railway holding decided to merge it with its...Read more
Intermodal service Andalusia – Antwerp for vegetables tested
A new intermodal service is being tested to transport agricultural products between Almeria in Spanish Andalusia and Antwerp in Belgium. The service is initiated by Swiss operator Hupac, Spanish railway company Renfe and Spanish consortium...Read more
Digital tool to align terminal and railway traffic in Port of Antwerp
Alignment between terminal planning and traffic management is sometimes hard to find in the rail freight industry. Thanks to new technologies, this is about to change, at least in the Port of Antwerp. The Rail...Read more
Frequency Frenkendorf – Port of Antwerp service to increase again
Schweizerzug AG is again increasing its train frequencies between Switzerland and Belgium. The service between Frenkendorf (near Basel) and the Port of Antwerp will run four times a week starting 2 February. A month earlier,...Read more
More rail freight services Frenkendorf – Port of Antwerp
Swiss rail freight operator Schweizerzug will increase the number of train services between Switzerland and Belgium. Starting on 10 January 2019, the rail freight line between Frenkendorf (near Basel) and the Port of Antwerp will...Read more
Railport to manage rail transport in Port of Antwerp
Railport Antwerpen will start coordinating the rail activities at the Port of Antwerp in order to improve the relatively low share of rail transport, currently at 7 per cent. Railport is a joint initiative of...Read moreAntwerp wants to take over rail operations in port
The Port of Antwerp wants to take over the management of 1,000 kilometre of railway within and around its perimeters, a responsibility currently carried out by Infrabel. The Port of Antwerp is not satisfied with...Read moreLineas and EWS join forces to bust the wood bugs
A specialist ‘bug-busting’ treatment is ensuring that Lineas Intermodal’s wood-laden trains bound for China are arriving clean and customer-ready. The Belgian rail freight operator has joined forces with eco-friendly pest control specialists EWS Group to open...Read moreExtra weekly Antwerp-Metz rail shuttle
The rail shuttle between the Port of Antwerp and Metz is increasing to two trips a week, says operator Multi-Modal Rail (MMR). It comes just a year after the service was introduced, and offers shippers extra...Read more