American e-commerce giant Amazon has increased its intermodal transport in Europe by 50 per cent, with a large role for rail. This growth percentage is based on data from 2023.Read more
Spain is allocating 468 million euros to carry out necessary upgrades along the future rolling highway between Spain’s largest port in Algeciras and Zaragoza. In total, 43 tunnels and 131 overpasses will be expanded to...Read more
The Zaragoza PLAZA Railway Logistics Centre, in northeastern Spain, will soon have a second MSC rail freight terminal. The company is ready to invest 20 million euros for the construction of the new facility, which...Read more
The Spanish Ministry of Transport (MITMA) allocated 36,2 million euros to upgrade the sidings in seven stations to accommodate 750-metre freight trains between Zaragoza and Tarragona, in the northeast. According to them, this initiative will...Read more
analysisSpain is negotiating with the European Union (EU) to unlock the funds included in the country’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), and rail freight is playing a crucial role. The EU wants Madrid to implement...Read more
Spanish infrastructure manager Adif will invest 118,5 million euros for the adaptation of 45 overpasses and 19 tunnels along the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto railway. The upgrade of the line is quite relevant for rail freight as it...Read more
The upgrade of the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto line in Spain as part of Adif’s master plan is ongoing at a fast pace. The Spanish infrastructure manager commissioned seven 740-metre-long sidings on the line to allow more efficient...Read more
Zaragoza and its logistics network are set for more upgrades in Spain as Adif launches a new tender worth 49.5 million euros. The tender targets the electrification of the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto line to increase rail freight...Read more
The Spanish infrastructure manager Adif is introducing a new freight tracking system, called SIMPLE (Simplification of Processes for a Logistic Enhancement), at the beginning of 2024. This constitutes a first for Spain, where there is...Read more
COSCO Shipping Ports Spain (CSP Spain) will maintain control of the Zaragoza Plaza rail terminal, in northwestern Spain, which the company has been managing since 2013. COSCO’s subsidiary was competing against Samca, a Spanish mining...Read more
Adif, the Spanish infrastructure manager, will invest 18,3 million euros to upgrade the railway line between Ronda and the country’s largest port: Algeciras. The project will be carried out by a consortium that will involve...Read more
The expansion of the Zaragoza Maritime Terminal (TMZ) in northeastern Spain has officially started. The project aims at doubling the number of trains handled in the Spanish terminal every year, from 3,500 to 7,000. Read more
The Spanish government has allocated 32 million euros in the General State Budget for 2023 for the construction of the Algeciras-Zaragoza Rolling Highway. Adif, the Spanish infrastructure manager, is in charge of the project. This...Read more
A new rail freight line is active in Spain between the port of Valencia and the Zaragoza rail terminal. The two terminals operated by COSCO SHIPPING have already seen two trains running between them. CSP...Read more
Around thirty rail freight services will suffer delays and a cost increase due to nearly three months of upgrade works on the railway that links Zaragoza with Sagunto Port. This 315 kilometres-long railway line runs...Read more
The Chinese-Spanish rail freight service between Yiwu and Madrid now stops in Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon and Barcelona. This was decided by the Chinese rail operator Timex Industrial Investment, which launched the new route...Read more
A new modern freight corridor is being forged in eastern Spain as the result of a 50 million Euros investment in improving the rail cargo connection between Valencia and Zaragoza. It is part of a...Read more