RailFreight Live today: Vilnius as a new hub on the New Silk Road
Since the capital of Lithuania was assigned as a new delivery station on the New Silk Road, market demand has gradually increased. Starting from 18 September, a train will depart every week from Xi’an to...Read more
Rail Baltica could lift 5,000 trucks from Polish-Lithuania border per day
More than 5 thousand trucks per day currently cross the border between Poland and Lithuania. Imagine if this could be shifted to rail. It is an ambition al but unrealistic, as the megaproject Rail Baltica...Read more
Last design on Latvia’s Rail Baltica line before construction
The joint venture of the Rail Baltica project RB Rail AS, on behalf of the Ministry of Transport of Latvia, has concluded two contracts for the remaining two sections of the Rail Baltica main line...Read more
Tallinn wants immediate stop dangerous goods through city
In the Estonian capital of Tallinn a plea has been made for a shift of dangerous goods from the railway to the road. The transport of this type of cargo through the densely populated city...Read more
Most freight trains on Rail Baltica will be intermodal
The Rail Baltica line that is to connect Poland with Estonia by European gauge railway in 2026 will be a great stimulus for intermodal transport in the Baltic region. 80 per cent of freight trains...Read moreCatherine Trautmann wins European Railway Award
Catherine Trautmann, the coordinator of the TEN-T North Sea-Baltic rail corridor, has won the European Railway Award on Wednesday in Brussels. She also received a check of 10 thousand Euros. Trautmann plans to donate the...Read moreConstruction Rail Baltica starts in 2020, Vilnius to be included
A time frame has been set for the completion of Rail Baltica, linking Poland and the Baltic states by rail. Construction should commence in 2020, while the entire project should be delivered by end 2025....Read moreLithuania maps out Rail Baltica connection with capital Vilnius
Lithuania has proposed nine possible railway lines connecting its capital Vilnius to the Rail Baltica. Lithuania has the potential to become an important transit country on the New Silk Road, as it is the only...Read more
China wants to connect Arctic to New Silk Road
China sees great potential in an intermodal route connecting the Arctic to the New Silk Road. The Polar Silk Road, as it is called, is an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative via the...Read more
Amber Train to connect Baltic states by rail
An intermodal container service connecting the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will be launched. The service is dubbed the Amber Train, and comes as a result of an agreement signed by the national...Read more
Finland and Norway want to build first Arctic railway
Finland and Norway are exploring the possibility of developing a rail freight link between the northern Finnish town of Rovaniemi and the ice-free Norwegian Port of Kirkenes. The line would be the first rail link...Read moreRail Baltica Latvian tender underway
The tendering process is underway for technical designs of the first sections of the vital new Rail Baltica freight and passenger route in Latvia. Running from Tallinn in Estonia on the northern Baltic coast, down through...Read moreRail Baltica secures nearly 500 million Euros in ‘remarkable’ success
The Rail Baltica programme linking Poland with the Baltic states via a new dedicated line is to receive nearly half a billion Euros from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), almost a sixth of the...Read moreMEPs’ visit puts Rail Baltica project under the spotlight
A delegation of European Parliament transport MEPs have been on a fact-finding mission to Estonia and Lithuania to discuss the Rail Baltica project and boost multimodal transport links with national authorities and rail freight stakeholders. Karima...Read more