Today is the last day of the year 2019, a good moment to look back at a very interesting year for rail freight in Europe. Four industry leaders look back, and share their ambitions for...Read more
The Government of Ukraine plans to liberalise the country’s rail freight sector. To this end, a pilot project will be introduced on railways. Until 4 December 2021, the private enterprises will be able to provide...Read more
Five months after lifting the ban on the transit of EU fresh products to third countries via Russia, transportation of this freight is still not possible. To change this, Russia should create clarity about the...Read more
The right-wing Conservative Party has won a huge majority in the UK General Election, on the back of a clear manifest pledge to ‘Get Brexit Done’. The very real probability now is that the United...Read more
The government of Russia will develop the requirements for electronic seals to be used for transit goods from the EU to China. The new legislation should be composed by the end of July.
The use of...Read more
The effect of noise differentiated track access charges (NDTAC) in Europe is under review. Since 2015, it is legally possible for infrastructure managers to include a malus or bonus in the track access charge for...Read more
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 more
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has started a rail freight service this week to link the fluvial port of Seville with the ports of Cordoba and Valencia. With this service the company is responding to agricultural...Read more
GVT and Hunan Xiangou Express Co will run a test train from Changsha in China to Tilburg in the Netherlands, departing on the 16th of August. The freight train will arrive seventeen days later in...Read more
Polish railway company PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (PKP LHS) has launched a new route to China. Running a trial, a container train has departed from Euroterminal in Slawkow, and it will continue its journey on...Read more
The national Italian rail company FS Group and the Naples port have signed an agreement to revive its rail freight connection. FS and the port authority will analyse the necessary civil works to repair the...Read more
The Spanish national company Renfe will invest 282 million Euros on buying and updating trains, accounting for 74 per cent of the total budgeted invest in 2018.
Most of the purchases were committed since 2016, the...Read more
French president Emmanuel Macron announced that the state will gradually take over the debt of national rail operator SNCF, starting in January 2020. He also confirmed that he will continue pressing reforms of the company....Read more
In certain ways, rail freight seems to be less clean and sustainable as assumed. Diesel as well as electric locomotives emit much higher CO2 levels than expected. This was concluded in a research of the...Read more
Mexico’s Antitrust Commission Cofece has concluded that there is a lack of competition in the national rail freight sector in a recently initiated investigation. “There are no real competition conditions in the rail freight sector, which...Read more
The Port of Rotterdam could increase its market share in certain regions in south-west Germany by up to 23 per cent if additional rail connections are created. This is one of the outcomes of the...Read more
In April 2015, the first regular cargo train departed from the southwestern city of Chongqing in China to arrive in Duisburg, Germany. It did so crossing the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe international line, which was established in 2011....Read more
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 more
