EU funding available for rail freight projects
Rail freight projects across Europe are urged to bid for their share of a 1.9 billion Euros fund aimed at stimulating growth and creating jobs. Cross-border connections, better efficiency and improved safety are the focus of the...Read more
Rail freight loses market share to self-driving road transport
Thomas Steffens van Boston Consulting GroupIn the coming years, the rail freight sector must significantly reduce costs and increase quality. If railway freight companies do not innovate quickly, then in the long-term they will lose...Read more
Robert van der Waal, Director of Logistics Operations for Samsung – Business case for combining rail freight
More and more businesses are joining the NewWays community, which matches shippers from Southern Holland up with each other to create combined shipment journeys on European railways. This is a market-driven initiative where various shippers are...Read more
The General Contract of Use for wagons – the most far reaching legal texts in the railway arena
The General Contract of Use (GCU) has been in force since July 1 2006, and governs international carriage of goods by rail – and by extension through the general term and conditions of railway undertakings,...Read more