After some complete suspension periods, Rail Cargo Group’s Rolling Road (ROLA) service between Wörgl in Austria and Trento in Northern Italy is getting back on tracks with six weekly roundtrips. Travelling through the Trans-Alpine Brenner...Read more
On 22 March, Rail Cargo Group’s second train originating from Ganzhou, China, departed with its destination being the company’s terminal in Budapest. The train’s journey will last between 15 and 18 days, reaching Europe during...Read more
How does a railway undertaking manage the current crisis? And how can rail freight reach the next level of development by becoming the future transport mode? Balancing under extreme conditions without losing multifaceted focus and...Read more
Starting from 29 March, Rail Cargo Group will add a new intermodal connection between Verona, Italy, and Hannover in Germany. The service will be part of RCG’s European TransFER rail network, but it could also...Read more
Saving time in border-crossing procedures, like safety checks, constitutes one of the rail freight sector’s primary objectives. It can result in multiple benefits like faster transit times, simplification of processes and better planning for trips....Read more
Rail Cargo Group and LogServ have agreed to extend their joint use of dispatch wagons for five more years. The extended agreement was signed in late January and will be in place from April 1....Read more
The high demand for services led Rail Cargo Group to add another weekly itinerary in its TransFER Linz-Wels-Duisburg route. Beginning on April 5, the service will have four roundtrips between the three locations every week....Read more
Rail Cargo Hungaria reported a significant increase of Chinese freight container trains arriving in the country, through the Zahony transhipment station at the Hungary-Ukraine border. “Compared to 2019, traffic experienced a tenfold increase beginning from...Read more
After its Austrian network, Rail Cargo Group is now operating its German network entirely by green electricity. Trains on all TransFER services in Germany are running on traction current that comes 100 per cent from...Read more
For Rail Cargo Group, 2020 is the year when unexpected struggles and anticipated innovations came along. As the company states: “We are not immune to the impacts of Covid-19, but in 2020 we also reached...Read more
Last week, Greenport rail terminal in Venlo received four trains from the city of Jinan, China. The trains were carrying clothing goods of the company PVH. After completing a trip of around 11,000 kilometres, they...Read more
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group is reducing its prices for the Rolling Road (ROLA) through the Brenner axis. The basic price for trucks weighing less than 40.5 tonnes is discounted, and there is a special price...Read more
Digital Automatic Coupling has been marked high on the rail freight agenda of Europe. Already a key project when it comes to the digitalisation drive of the industry, it received the backing of the Rail...Read more
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group has launched a new tool to access its newly established ‘digital world’. It is called SmartLINK and the system is already live. The tool provides access to available services and also...Read more
By the end of this decade, digital automatic coupling should be the norm in Europe. That is the aim of the DAC4EU consortium. The first tests journeys are currently carried out with what are now...Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has commissioned the Dutch company Yellowstar to develop a new Transport Management System (TMS) and Terminal Operating System (TOS) for controlling its international intermodal transport operations. The roll-out of the new...Read more
A new rail freight service from Austria to China departed in the eastward direction this morning. It is a test journey from Vienna to Xi’an with Shanghai as the final destination. The service was brought...Read more
Six European rail freight companies led by DB Cargo have started the trials of digital automatic coupling (DAC) on wagons. The pilot project is dedicated to demonstrating, testing and obtaining regulatory approval for this technology....Read more
