FELB launched a new service between St. Petersburg in Russia and Beijing in China. However, the service is multimodal, linking north European ports like Rotterdam, Duisburg or Hamburg with St. Petersburg before putting cargo on...Read more
Sinara Transport Machines Holding (STM) established a new railway infrastructure division to offer infrastructure maintenance services in Russia starting from 2022. Russian Railways will be the new company’s primary customer, but it aims to expand...Read more
RZD Logistics and the Russian Export Center organised the first Agroexpress train from Russia to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan. The train carried reefer containers with poultry meat and travelled between Tambov and Tashkent. The two companies...Read more
A new terminal has been opened in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave and a main transit hub on the New Silk Road. On 1st October, the new transport and logistics centre East-West in the town of...Read more
Sinara Transport Machines Holding (STM) has developed a high-speed flatcar able to transport containers at a speed of 140 kilometres per hour. It is the latest addition to a series of high-speed rolling stock equipment...Read more
At least for the Russian Railways, deploying military and possibly convicts seems like a viable solution for the lack of foreign construction workers. The Covid-19 related restrictions led to a shortage of workforce, and consequently,...Read more
Maersk’s AE19 rail service using the Trans-Siberian route is about to experience another increase of trips following its customers’ growing demand. Eastbound trains will now travel once per week instead of every fifteen days, while...Read more
A digital meeting place for those who are hiring or wish to be hired along the New Silk Road. That is in short the Platform for the Transport and Logistics Career Center, developed by UTLC...Read more
Maersk has dispatched the first refrigerated containers from Mersin, Turkey, to Moscow’s Selyatino terminal. The containers reached the Russian port of Novorossiysk by vessels through the Black sea and Moscow with a train operated by...Read more
Russian Railways announced the opening of a new locomotive service point at the Zabaikalsk station. The service point will serve the repair and maintenance of diesel locomotives, including those operating on narrow-gauge in foreign trade....Read more
Backed by Russian subsidies, a new container train carrying Japanese cargo departed for Europe on 18 November, using the Trans-Siberian railways. The train, which left from the Russian port of Vladivostok, is now headed for ...Read more
As of 10 November, a Russian Railways information and training centre will operate in the Serbian Railways Head Office at Belgrade. The new regional centre is the result of the collaboration between RZD International LLC...Read more
Russian Railways wants to increase the volume of cargo transportation by electric traction and give priority to the electrification of the busiest freight routes. This was announced by Sergey Kobzev, deputy manager director of Russian...Read more
A new railway bridge across Russia’s Kola River near Murmansk has been put into operation. The previous bridge collapsed during a flood of the river on 30 May 2020. It lies on an important railway...Read more
Russian Railways will reconstruct and modernise the railway line connecting Serbia and Montenegro. It concerns the railway line Valjevo-Vrbnica, a 210-kilometre long railway line connecting the centre of Serbia to the border with Montenegro. This...Read more
In order to stimulate container traffic on the railway network, the Government of Russia has implemented subsidies for local logistics companies. The amount of a state subvention for transporting containers varies from 290 to 860...Read more
Digitalisation is going really strong on Russia’s railway network. RZD, as the national railway operator, substantially increases the share of containers that are processed paperless with the help of dedicated digital platforms. The company also...Read more
Russian Railways has managed to attract a new type of freight on tracks. The company transported the first batch of motor oil that was loaded in containers. It also plans to make such shipments regular...Read more
