Shipping giant MSC is working on taking over the industrial area near the port of Trieste formerly occupied by Wärtsilä, a Finnish maritime equipment manufacturer. MSC is planning on reconverting the factory into a rail...Read more
The month of February saw shipping giant MSC taking further steps to solidify its presence in Italy, with a focus on rail freight. The company recently became a shareholder in Rail Hub Europe, the entity...Read more
The Eastern Adriatic Sea Port Authority, which manages Italy’s largest port in Trieste, was awarded the status of rail infrastructure manager from the National Agency for Railway and Road Infrastructure Safety (ANSFISA). With the new...Read more
The beginning of 2024 brings more frequent connections between Germany, Greece and Turkey via the Italian port of Trieste. Kombiverkehr increases its rail services between the DUSS terminal in Munich-Riem and Trieste to five weekly...Read more
The initiative between the port of Trieste, in northeastern Italy, and the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) for faster customs procedures is finally up and running, and this is how it works. Goods arriving by ship...Read more
CEO interviewThe Hungarian government has planned the construction of a multi-purpose terminal at the port of Trieste, in northeastern Italy. RailFreight.com had a chat with Peter Garai, CEO of Adria Port. The company, which shares its...Read more
terminal thursdayThe Port Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea, which manages the port of Trieste, launched a tender for the works necessary to requalify the terminal in the port that will be managed by the Hungarian...Read more
The new railway service has been opened in the north of Italy, connecting two important rail freight hubs: the HHLA PLT terminal in Trieste and Rail Hub Milano Melzo, a terminal of Contship Italia Group....Read more
Terminal Investment Ltd (TIL), MSC’s subsidiary for container terminals, has finalised the acquisition of another 30 per cent of shares of the Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT), a critical rail freight location with multiple connections. The...Read more
Rail connections between the port of Trieste and Austria recently increased in number as well as quality. As of Monday 13 February, there have been two direct trains a week from the Trieste Marine Terminal...Read more
A new multimodal terminal was opened in Horb, Germany, near Stuttgart. The Black Forest Terminal, as it is named, will for now launch train services to the port of Hamburg. Trains will run twice a...Read more
The Austrian Federal Railways (OBB) will launch a new connection between Italy and Austria to speed up customs operations at the port of Trieste. The service will in fact connect the port with Villach, in...Read more
LTG Cargo carried out the first test run of their new rail freight service between the Kaunas Intermodal Terminal and the port of Trieste via Duisburg. The new service is expected to connect Lithuania with...Read more
Italian ports can become the sea transportation solution for cargo to and from landlocked Hungary. This is not only attractive for continental traffic, but also for rail freight between China and Europe. This was pointed...Read more
Adriafer, the railway company of the port of Trieste, will adopt the roadrailLink (r2L) connector system that will allow to move non-cranable trailers from trucks onto trains directly. The r2L system was developed by VEGA...Read more
The terminal, named Adria Port, will function as an import-export platform for Hungary. It will be built in the area where the Aquila refinery, which was closed in the 1980s, used to be. The total...Read more
Various projects launched by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS) to boost rail freight in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a region in north-eastern Italy, are going to be delayed or postponed. Many of them involve the ports of Trieste...Read more
After being closed for works for the whole month of July, the Pontebbana railway line has reopened to rail freight traffic. The line connects Udine, 80 km North of the Port of Trieste, with Tarvisio,...Read more
A massive fire started on 19 July in the Carso region, around the area of Trieste-Lisert, 27 km from the port of Trieste. The fire caused the blockage of highways, passenger trains, and freight trains.Read more
Hamburg and Bremerhaven ports still face chaos following continuous strikes and infrastructure issues, causing “disastrous consequences” to operators like METRANS. As if that was not enough, Adriatic ports also met immense traffic restrictions, which the...Read more
COSCO has opened a fourth route on its Land-Sea Express Line. A train departed from the port of Trieste on Monday, to arrive in Velenje, Slovenia the next day. It is one example of how...Read more