The Dutch government will financially support companies in the Netherlands that want to shift transport volumes from road to rail or barge. An amount of 2.5 million euros has been set aside for this. This...Read more
Rail is the grand winner of 2020. That is of course what rail operators say, but it is also what logistics companies offering multiple solutions claim. An example is RailBridgeCargo, which offers rail as part...Read more
Coca Cola and DB Cargo have agreed to expand the rail portfolio of the soda giant in Germany. By the middle of 2021, thirteen sites in Germany should be reached by rail. By doing so,...Read more
Volkswagen Navarra reached its historical record for the distribution of cars by rail in 2020. For the first time, the rail transport volumes exceeded those moved by road, with a 56 per cent share of...Read more
Austrian operator ÖBB has given one of their locomotives a special European Year of Rail design. The locomotive was presented at a ceremony at Vienna central station last week, and will be on the tracks...Read more
The number of trains to and from the Dutch Port of Moerdijk has almost doubled in recent years to just under three thousand a year. With a planned extension of the track at the Combined...Read more
Starting this Thursday, Dutch fashion store Zeeman transports its products by rail to Granollers, northeast of Barcelona in Spain. For this, the retailer has partnered up with rail operator Shuttlewise and Combi Terminal Twente. The...Read more
The first freight trains must run through the 55-kilometer-long Austrian prestige project, the Brenner Basis Tunnel (BBT), in ten years from now. The Alpine country can then greatly relieve the Brenner route for freight traffic...Read more
Mercedes-Benz Cars is switching to CO2-free transport by rail in Germany and Austria. The production equipment for the Mercedes-Benz passenger car is now transported by rail on green electricity, in the case of factories in...Read more
A German funding scheme for the rail freight industry has been opened. The federal government allocates 30 million euros per year until 31 December 2024 to make the industry more future-proof. The federal programme, which...Read more
TX Logistik AG, part of the Italian railway group Polo Mercitalia (FS Italiane Group), has doubled its rail freight services in Sweden for the supermarket chain Coop. This service now runs 20 times per week...Read more
Rail Cargo Group has set up additional rail freight services to enable the shipment of salt from Austria to Hungary, Italy and Croatia. According to the ÖBB-subsidiary, the supply of this basic commodity is urgently...Read more
Dutch logistics lobby firm TLN is calling upon the government to invest more in its infrastructure. And not only in road, but also in rail- and waterways. “We need to think about the mobility of...Read more
From now until the end of this year, road hauliers in the Italian province of Bolzano are subsidised if they put their cargo on rails. This financial incentive was offered last year and will be...Read more
