DB Cargo Italia is currently in the process of implementing a switch from diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel. All diesel-powered locomotives of the company will switch to HVO by the end of the...Read more
The Dutch cycling team BEAT Cycling Club will travel to its training camp to Girona this year by train. The bicycles and other equipment will join the team to Spain by rail. “It is more...Read more
The independently appointed Railway Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has published its comprehensive vision for the future of rail sustainability. The Sustainable Rail Blueprint, an industry-wide collaboration, aims to realise a more sustainable future for...Read more
Capturing CO2 from the air while running a train: it could even make a diesel-fueled train nearly carbon-neutral. US-based startup CO2Rail Company, together with researchers from the University of Sheffield, are working to design carbon-capturing...Read more
With the turn of the new year, DB cargo started taking action to modernise its locomotive fleet. The German operator and one of the European rail freight giants ordered a batch of 200 new locomotives...Read more
As the COP26 UN climate change conference takes place in Glasgow, UK, the urgency for a green transport transition is more urgent than ever. Shifting to rail freight transport is key for succeeding in environmental...Read more
That rail is the more sustainable transport option we already knew. But did you know that it can become more sustainable by changing the container type? FELB has just proven this by using Container 2.0,...Read more
Rail transport is already known as one of the transport modalities with the lowest CO2 emissions, but this can always be lower. Better yet, it can be zero. This is what HHLA and METRANS believe,...Read more