Rail freight links to and from the Port of Hamburg have been instrumental in ensuring Austria remains its most important trading partner in containerised shipping. Almost all – 98 per cent – container transports between...Read more
Rail operations at the Port of Gothenburg are being strengthened with the addition of several new services by the Swedish state freight carrier Green Cargo. The capital Stockholm and Gävle on the east coast will...Read more
Rail freight rarely says no. Whatever the customer wants to move, there’s a train that can take it. Take arguably Scotland’s most famous export for example – whisky. In this special column for RailFreight.com, self-confessed...Read more
The growing demand for rail freight to and from the Far East has received another huge boost with logistics giant UPS’s decision to add six stations – including two in Europe – to its multimodal...Read more
British Steel has expanded its European rail operations by opening a new long-length rail logistics centre in Italy. A key supplier to the Italian national rail provider Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), British Steel has launched the...Read more
Green Cargo, Sweden’s longest-running rail freight operator, has been awarded a contract for a twice-weekly service carrying propane gas for energy supplier E.ON. The long-term agreement will see services operating between Karlshamn and SSAB’s steel...Read more
Freight wagons will become ‘virtually intelligent’ thanks to the application of Big Data – that’s the key message from one of the industry’s leading freight logisticians. Peter Boom, of Voestalpine Signaling, says infrastructures are in...Read more