CFR Marfă, Romania’s state-owned rail freight operator, will soon be liquidated following bankruptcy. In its place will now come a new state-owned operator by the…
Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has tested a service with a double-stack container load. Its freight subsidiary KTZ Express cooperated with wagon manufacturer Ziksto (ЗИКСТО) to make…
Rail freight in Latvia is continuing on its downward path. During the first nine months of 2024, the country recorded a drop of 25,5 per…
A final legal challenge to a proposed rail freight terminal, sited north of London, has been refused. A long-running campaign, based on the legality of…
The Spanish national rail freight operator Renfe Mercancias has chosen Deloitte to carry out the due diligence on Medway. MSC’s subsidiary will be taking over…
The Polish Gdynia port has had its rail infrastructure renovated and expanded, increasing its capacity fivefold. Among other things, the port can now handle 740-metre…
The Italian Ministry of Transport has opened applications for the 2024/25 Ferrobonus incentive, one of the main measures to support the country’s rail freight sector.…
Two Romanian logistics companies and Kazakh Railways (KTZ) are strengthening their cooperation for rail logistics. KTZ’s freight logistics subsidiary KTZ Express signed a memorandum of…
The difference in railway gauges between the Iberian peninsula and the rest of Europe remains a significant bottleneck for international rail freight services. However, it…
The rail border crossings between Kazakhstan and China have made the news at various points throughout the year. For example, in spring, Kazakhstan stopped grain…
DB Cargo UK and DB Cargo Polska are set to collaborate on a wagon refurbishment programme. The project is supporting operations in the UK. The…
Nevomo, a tech company developing magnetic levitation concepts for rail freight, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Etihad Rail. The Poland-based company will explore the…
Business
CFR Marfă, Romania’s state-owned rail freight operator, will soon be liquidated following bankruptcy. In its place will now come a new state-owned operator by the…
Rail freight in Latvia is continuing on its downward path. During the first nine months of 2024, the country recorded a drop of 25,5 per…
The Spanish national rail freight operator Renfe Mercancias has chosen Deloitte to carry out the due diligence on Medway. MSC’s subsidiary will be taking over…
Two Romanian logistics companies and Kazakh Railways (KTZ) are strengthening their cooperation for rail logistics. KTZ’s freight logistics subsidiary KTZ Express signed a memorandum of…
In Depth
CFR Marfă, Romania’s state-owned rail freight operator, will soon be liquidated following bankruptcy. In its place will now come a new state-owned operator by the…
Rail freight in Switzerland is currently undergoing a total revision of the Freight Transport Act, which was recently adopted by the country’s Council of States.…
The upward development of Silk Road traffic and volumes transiting via Kazakh, Russian and Belarusian rail infrastructure is also confirmed by numbers. Statistics made available…
The annual increase in tolls paid by rail freight operators in France over the next couple of years is expected to be in line with…
Asia-Europe
Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has tested a service with a double-stack container load. Its freight subsidiary KTZ Express cooperated with wagon manufacturer Ziksto (ЗИКСТО) to make…
Two Romanian logistics companies and Kazakh Railways (KTZ) are strengthening their cooperation for rail logistics. KTZ’s freight logistics subsidiary KTZ Express signed a memorandum of…
The rail border crossings between Kazakhstan and China have made the news at various points throughout the year. For example, in spring, Kazakhstan stopped grain…
The Russian mining company “Don Coal” is planning to export coal from occupied Ukrainian territories in October. The coal is reportedly destined for countries such…
Intermodal
The fast-growing London Gateway container terminal has just gone into overdrive with a massive one billion pound investment programme. The owners, DP World, have given…
The port of Venice, in northeastern Italy, launched a new rail freight connection for steel and metal products to Montirone, near Brescia. With this new…
Cinérites Transport & Logistique (CTL), freight forwarding arm of French quarry operator, Carrières de l’Ouest, has officially inaugurated a multi-modal freight terminal at the inland…
British retail giant Tesco is continuing its modal shift initiative with the introduction of its tenth rail freight service in the United Kingdom. The new…
Policy
The Italian Ministry of Transport has opened applications for the 2024/25 Ferrobonus incentive, one of the main measures to support the country’s rail freight sector.…
A French State programme to invest 100 billion euros in rail transport up until 2040 could hit the buffers as a consequence of State budgetary…
The management of rail capacity across the European Union is in dire need of changing, especially if the mission is to boost international rail freight…
After some time of relative calm, a new round of collective labour bargaining is again on German rail’s doorstep. The country’s largest trade union, EVG,…
Technology
Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has tested a service with a double-stack container load. Its freight subsidiary KTZ Express cooperated with wagon manufacturer Ziksto (ЗИКСТО) to make…
Nevomo, a tech company developing magnetic levitation concepts for rail freight, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Etihad Rail. The Poland-based company will explore the…
Within this framework, on 4 October, an executive of Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) attended the 5th Eurasian Forum on Transport Safety and Digitalization, held in Almaty…
Pushing ahead with the implementation of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) would be like “shooting ourselves in the foot”, warn Czech and Slovak rail associations ŽESNAD…
Infrastructure
The Polish Gdynia port has had its rail infrastructure renovated and expanded, increasing its capacity fivefold. Among other things, the port can now handle 740-metre…
The difference in railway gauges between the Iberian peninsula and the rest of Europe remains a significant bottleneck for international rail freight services. However, it…
The Omani-Emirati joint venture Hafeet Rail is purchasing 27 new heavy-haul freight locomotives from Progress Rail. The deal now comes after the joint venture secured…
Next month, the 80-week Betuwe line works will officially start. DB InfraGO will be building a third track between Emmerich and Oberhausen, near the border…