Hupac goes Eurasian after strong response to Rastatt
The now-infamous Rastatt shutdown failed to stop Swiss intermodal operator Hupac increasing its rail shipments by over three per cent in 2017. This rail success is also set to be strengthened with a new Eurasian...Read more
Rail traffic boosts record-breaking Barcelona port
A record amount of rail traffic helped the Port of Barcelona deliver its best-ever freight results in 2017, and confirmed its status as one of Europe’s fastest-growing ports. Official figures from the port authority management show...Read more
Rail Baltica Latvian tender underway
The tendering process is underway for technical designs of the first sections of the vital new Rail Baltica freight and passenger route in Latvia. Running from Tallinn in Estonia on the northern Baltic coast, down through...Read more
Silk Road experts join line-up for first rail freight summit
Acclaimed Silk Road author Professor Richard Griffiths is among the latest confirmed speakers for the Silk Road Gateway Poland summit, which is being held in Wroclaw from March 20-21. One of the world’s leading authorities on...Read more
Europe-China rail strategy must harness potential of southern Silk Road
A prevailing focus on the Europe-China northern rail freight route is detracting from the possibilities offered by southern Europe and Asia’s other diverse economies, says Professor Richard Griffiths, one of the world’s leading Silk Road...Read more
Freight firm’s backing for new high speed rail school
A new UK high speed rail training centre is ‘an enormous opportunity for the whole industry’, says the boss of the country’s biggest cargo operator, DB Cargo UK. With it’s Doncaster base right on the doorstep...Read more
Changes to UK track access charges system ‘could harm rail’s competitiveness’
Potential changes to how track access charges in the UK are calculated could present a threat to rail’s competitiveness. Rail economics expert Professor Chris Nash will deliver this stark warning when he speaks at the...Read more
Europe-Asia partnership expansion for DB Cargo
DB Cargo has stepped up its role in the New Silk Road revolution by increasing its share in the Trans-Eurasia Logistics (TEL) German/Russia partnership. The company was one of the first European freight operators to embrace...Read more
UK freight growth ‘hampered’ by deferred works, says RFG head
The growth of rail freight in the UK is being hampered by delays to infrastructure works. That’s the message which Maggie Simpson, Executive Director of the Rail Freight Group, has delivered to a government panel...Read more
Saint-Gobain and SNCF test digital freight train
French rail operator SNCF and engineering firm Saint-Gobin say they have been successfully testing a pilot ‘digitised’ freight train between Dunkerque and Dieulouard. Test trains carrying raw materials to the Saint-Gobin plant in Dieulouard, which manufactures...Read more
Extra weekly Antwerp-Metz rail shuttle
The rail shuttle between the Port of Antwerp and Metz is increasing to two trips a week, says operator Multi-Modal Rail (MMR). It comes just a year after the service was introduced, and offers shippers extra...Read more
Huge rise in 2017 freight for Eurasian alliance
Rail freight corridor alliance United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC) handled more than 2,000 container trains in 2017, a remarkable rise of 75 per cent on the previous year. Aroiund 175,000 TEUs were transported along the...Read more
Upgrade for Ivory Coast-Burkina Faso rail network
The Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast governments have begun upgrading the rail network between Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, and the main Burkinabe mining area of Kaya. These civil works have a budget of 260 billion...Read more
US, Canada and Mexico rail bodies demand trade deal renewal
The US, Canadian and Mexican rail freight industry bodies have written to their governments to request the immediate renewal of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It’s a highly unusual step by the Association of...Read more
Modified engines cut DB Cargo’s fuel consumption
One of Europea’s biggest rail freight operators, DB Cargo, is cutting fuel consumption and CO2 emissions with a modified engine management system The freight subsidiary of German’s national train operator Deutsche Bahn says it has tuned...Read more
Le Shuttle freight daily high adds to Getlink success
Le Shuttle cross-Channel rail freight service recorded an all-time high for daily traffic in January, transporting 7,023 trucks in both directions. This is up three per cent on the previous record from March 2008. The record-breaking...Read more
EU’s Violeta Bulc launches ‘Year of Multimodality’
EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc is leading a campaign for 2018 to be the ‘Year of Multimodality’. The European Commission is planning policy initiatives and events to promote the benefits of multimodal transport. The European Commission says...Read more
Rail freight service for Aragon-Catalonia feed route
Spanish industrial group Samca has launched a rail freight service transporting grain between the northern region of Aragon and Tarragona Port in Catalonia. Samca, whose activities include mining, agriculture, energy, plastics, textiles and construction, manages the...Read more
Test run success for Russia-Vietnam intermodal service
A Russia-to-Vietnam rail partnership has successfully tested a pilot intermodal service, marking a new international transport corridor. RZD Logistics, the freight arm of Russian Railways, and its Vietnamese partner Rataco, ran the service between Vorsino Freight...Read more