Pledges to find alternative rail freight routes along the left bank of the Rhine river have been discussed for a few months now due to rising capacity bottlenecks along the main line. Now the ball...Read more
Big changes are ahead for the port of Basel, Switzerland’s only access to the Rhine river and therefore a key point for developing the TEN-T Rhine-Alpine Corridor. The Parliament of Canton Basel-Stadt has submitted to...Read more
The railway line connecting Santhia and Arona, in northwestern Italy, is likely to be reopen after it ceased to be used in June 2012. The importance of this line lies in the fact that it...Read more
The Genoa Junction Project that will connect the port of Genoa to the TEN-T Rhine Alpine corridor may see its realisation delayed. The so-called Third Pass that will mostly run through tunnels saw a major...Read more
Longer freight trains could be operating on the vital Rhine-Alpine rail freight corridor by 2021, building on the ‘booming success’ of the route which saw nearly 170,000 international freight trains operate in 2016, European ministers...Read more
The German section of the vital Betuweroute freight line faces a significant delay, the Dutch Transport Secretary Sharon Dijksma has said. In a letter to Parliament, she said the official schedule for the 70 kilometre...Read more
