Sweden has decided to upgrade the Iron Ore Line, or Malmbanan in Swedish. The upgrades are necessary due to two recent derailments. Moreover, the country’s NATO accession requires the rail line to function properly at...Read more
Finnish logistics company Nurminen Logistics will open a new rail route connecting northern Finland to the port of Gothenburg. The service will commence in April. According to the company, the new route helps Finland’s international...Read more
The Öresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, is one of the key rail nodes of the TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor. However, many in the rail freight sector have been stressing about the lack of redundancy and...Read more
Traffic along the Iron Ore Line should fully restart on Thursday, 7 March, after a train derailed near Vassijaure, not far from the Sweden-Norway border, on 24 February. The particularity of this derailment is that...Read more
The Iron Ore Line, Europe’s northernmost rail border crossing connecting Sweden and Norway, is again closed due to a freight train derailment near Vassijaure. The line had just been reopened last week after another derailment...Read more
DB Cargo Scandinavia is launching a pilot rail freight service to the Danish port town of Hirtshals. The port, located at the northern tip of mainland Denmark, provides ferry services to Norway. The pilot is...Read more
The latest round of Military Mobility funds provided by the EU Commission as part of CEF has been approved. Railway projects are once again highlighted. Of the 807 million euros released by the Commission, approximately...Read more
The governments of Canada, Lithuania, Sweden and Ukraine will cooperate to help rebuild Kyiv’s “war-ravaged transport systems and develop new international trade links”. The initiative, called Common Interest Group for Ukraine (CIG4U), will focus on...Read more
In Europe, demand for available rail infrastructure continues to increase sharply. Indeed, further modal shift towards this more sustainable type of transportation is a key element to reaching climate targets. Continuous monitoring of rail assets...Read more
The railway line stretching from Oslo, in Norway, to Gothenburg, in Sweden, is currently one of the main bottlenecks along the TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor. A feasibility study to double the track was recently published by...Read more
The Swedish Transport Administration Trafikverket is considering financing new rail freight projects through government loans that might total over 2.5 billion euros. This, according to a spokesperson from the agency, should “enable an earlier and...Read more
The Swedish government tasked the country’s infrastructure manager Trafikverket to find solutions to improve maintenance planning and traffic reliability. The deadline set for Trafikverket to submit their proposals is 12 February 2024, with extensions up...Read more
Running freight trains between Slovenia and its neighbouring countries is still significantly problematic due to the recent disastrous floods that hit the country. The first estimates of the damages are set at over half a...Read more
Slovenia is currently being hit by heavy rain causing floods and significant damage to the country’s infrastructure. The same is happening in the north of the Old Continent, where Sweden and Norway are dealing with...Read more
The rail planning system implemented for 2023 in Sweden (MPK) has been quite disruptive for rail freight operations in the country. Many companies are lamenting the lack of timely communication and poor foresight from Trafikverket,...Read more
InterviewThe Swedish rail freight industry is currently struggling to adapt to the new planning system implemented by Trafikverket, the government agency responsible for the country’s rail network. RailFreight.com interviewed Shad Hallam, Head of Network Management...Read more
A rail strike that was planned to start on Monday 15 May in Sweden was called off after the parties agreed on a settlement. The dispute was between the Swedish Union for Service and Communications...Read more
tech tuesdayKnorr-Bremse, a German manufacturer of braking systems, is testing its Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC) in real-world conditions on a Swedish freight train. As the company claimed, Knorr-Bremse has been confirmed as an authorised DAC manufacturer...Read more
After laying low for a year, Lineas seems to be back on track. The company launched a new rail service with logistics firm DFDS to link the North Sea Port in Ghent and Port Edouard...Read more
Samskip is adding the APM Terminals Gothenburg to their network to improve their rail freight offers from the port of Gothenburg to the Swedish hinterland. Moreover, Samskip’s presence in the terminal will allow them to...Read more
Collicare, a Norwegian logistics company, will inaugurate a new rail freight service between Italy and Sweden. The first train will be dispatched from Italy on Saturday, 4 February. Swedish company Hector Rail and Dutch BLS...Read more