Topic: Port of Narvik

Iron Ore Line to fully reopen this week after derailment

Traffic along the Iron Ore Line should fully restart on Thursday, 7 March, after a train derailed near Vassijaure, not far from the Sweden-Norway border, on 24 February. The particularity of this derailment is that...Read more

05-03-2024|1 comment|author: Marco Raimondi

Another derailment along the Iron Ore Line, this time it may be sabotage

The Iron Ore Line, Europe’s northernmost rail border crossing connecting Sweden and Norway, is again closed due to a freight train derailment near Vassijaure. The line had just been reopened last week after another derailment...Read more

27-02-2024|1 comment|author: Marco Raimondi

From Norway to China by rail, now via the Caspian Sea

This May, the South China Railway Express will be extended to the port of Narvik in northern Norway. This multimodal service is an integration of existing routes, namely the Middle Corridor across the Caspian and...Read more

29-04-2022|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen