Rail Cargo Group has launched a new connection Verona-Lübeck, connecting the Northern Italian area with the Hanseatic city and the Eastern European Central Region. As the largest German Baltic Sea port, the Port of Lübeck...Read more
Rail Cargo Group has launched a new rail freight connection between the northern seaport of Hamburg and Enns in Austria. The service includes two roundtrips per week without stopover. According to the ÖBB subsidiary, the...Read more
The regular rail freight service from the Dutch hub of Venlo to Xi’an in China will commence on 20 June 2020. This was announced by Peter Pardoel of Cabooter Group during the European Silk Road...Read more
Ocean Rail Logistics, a Greek subsidiary of the Chinese Cosco Shipping, has taken a 15 per cent interest in the BILK rail terminal near the Hungarian capital Budapest. This terminal has the potential to become...Read more
ÖBB’s Rail Cargo Group, the Port of Baku and the Dutch Cabooter Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to jointly develop the Middle Corridor, which connects Europe and China via Turkey and...Read more
The Austrian Rail Cargo Group and German Kombiverkehr have partnered up to realise a three-weekly rail freight connection between Wels, Vienna and Budapest. The three cities in Germany, Austria and Hungary are main nodes in...Read more
Many new connections and departures were launched or announced this week. These include two services between the Netherlands and Germany. Three new lines were established to Italy; from Germany, Belgium and Austria.
A new service commenced...Read more
The intermodal terminal in Duisburg is an important hub for all of Europe. The vast majority of the container trains from China to the EU run via Duisport. The Austrian freight operator Rail Cargo Group...Read more
Ideally, the Eurasian rail cargo volume could increase to a million TEU in 2025. However, this forecast highly depends on the continuation of the Chinese subsidies. If this financial support for rail freight traffic on...Read more
Wednesday 15 May is the first day of the RailFreight Summit 2019, which takes place in Gdansk, Poland. This liveblog provides broadcasting of presentations and panel discussions at the conference. Today’s main topic is rail...Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has established a direct link between Vienna and Scandanavia. Four times a week a multimodal service runs between the Austrian capital and Trelleborg, the southernmost city in Sweden.
Trelleborg is also the...Read more
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has called on an option from the 2017 deal for supplying 61 Vectron multisystem locomotives. The vehicles will be operated by Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the rail freight division of ÖBB....Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) and Digital Logistics, a joint venture of Russian Railways (RZD) and INTELLEX, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote standardisation and digitalisation of operational processes across Europe’s borders. This should enable...Read more
The freight division of railway company ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) will commence with two new rail freight services from the Italian port of Trieste to various destinations in Austria. This was revealed at the...Read more
Austrian-based operator Rail Cargo Group, Italian shipping company Grimaldi and Dutch logistics provider Samskip will launch a multimodal service between Greece and the German logistics hub of Duisburg. The route will include the Duisburg-Venice rail...Read more
A new direct rail freight line between the Austrian hub of Wels and the German Baltic Sea port of Lübeck has been launched by Rail Cargo Group. The service is called TransFER and runs twice...Read more
By the end of 2020, the freight cars of Rail Cargo Group will feature position detection, motion sensing and shock detection. The freight division of OBB has partnered up with A1 and A1 Digital to...Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has reached its ambitious goal this month of handling a total of 400 trains between Asia and Europe in 2018. It transported more than 30,000 standard containers by rail between Asia...Read more
The European Commission objects to the plan that will see an extension of the broad gauge railway line from Slovakia to Austria. Meanwhile, the project is about to enter the next phase, moving closer towards...Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has launched a new freight train running between two intermodal hubs – Łódź and Istanbul. The new service improves the transportation of goods throughout eastern, southern and southeastern Europe and connects...Read more
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has further expanded its rail freight network. Last month, the carrier started operating the new container service from Vienna in Austria to Piadena in Italy. The service also offers a good...Read more