Greece and Bulgaria will cooperate in launching a railway line extending from northern Greece and through Bulgaria to Romania. “There are possibilities to even extend this line towards North Sea ports”, said Greek transport minister...Read more
Rail operator Hupac launched a new train connection this week between the port of Moerdijk and Rail Terminal Chemelot Geleen, both in the Netherlands. It runs with a frequency of three services per week. From...Read more
Finland and Kazakhstan are considering to launch a new rail freight connection between the countries. They regard the route as an opportunity for transporting products to and from other countries, especially Iran, Sweden and Norway.
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Swiss intermodal operator Hupac is warning of serious challenges facing the European rail freight sector as a result of poor international cooperation over infrastructure and planning. This is despite it recording 737,000 rail movements in...Read more
The pilot version of a ‘one-stop-shop’ European web portal detailing rail freight service facilities across the continent can now be accessed online. The railfreightlocations.eu site is a European Union initiative involving a group of rail...Read more
European rail freight policymakers must help ensure that national rail infrastructure managers work much more closely together to alleviate bottlenecks at borders, and thus pave the way for a much-increased sustainable modal shift from road...Read more
A co-ordinated European solution to tackle rail freight noise is the only way to prevent unilateral policies threatening the internal railways and interoperability, the EU’s Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc has warned. She told the Symposium...Read more
A new modern freight corridor is being forged in eastern Spain as the result of a 50 million Euros investment in improving the rail cargo connection between Valencia and Zaragoza. It is part of a...Read more
