The controversial plan by Manchester United Football Club to annex a rail freight terminal may just have taken a step towards an amicable outcome. The…
Track Value, described by its developers as ‘a revolutionary traceability and monitoring solution for all freight activities (road, rail, air and sea)’, has been officially…
Swiss rail freight operator SBB Cargo finalised an agreement with Stadler Rail for the supply of up to 129 locomotives. The deal entails the delivery…
With another policy reversal, the Italian government will cut 55 million euros from the fund intended for rail freight operators to incentivise the purchase of…
A recent study reveals that Germany’s local rail passenger transport could save billions by 2030 due to the Railway Regulation Act (ERegG) adopted in 2016.…
Switzerland is ready to make 60 to 80 million francs to upgrade the Metz-Strasbourg-Basel railway, which would provide a valid alternative on the left bank…
The overly congested Kazakh-Chinese border crossings remain a problem for rail traffic. The Kazakh side cannot handle the amount of incoming freight, leading to a…
France’s infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau has a begun a three-month period of public consultations concerning a major project to re-open the Pau-Canfranc railway line through…
The sentiment around rail freight is too often negative, not least due to lack of expertise of general news media. That is the view of…
Britain’s official crash scene investigators, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), has formally declared its interests in the recent freight derailment in Manchester. The RAIB…
Digitalisation remains a key aspect to modernise the rail freight sector and enhance international cooperation. RailFreight.com had a chat with the Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways…
Hundreds of rail workers in France will gather in front of the office of the newly appointed ministry of transport François Durovray, in Paris, to…
Swedish rail freight operator Green Cargo has achieved a third quarter operating profit of 18 million Swedish crowns (1,57 million euros). During last year’s Q3,…
The ‘successor’ to Fret SNCF is set to take on its role of traction provider to Rail Route Connect (2RC). This is a French network…
Danish shipping giant DSV will raise funds for the purchase of DB Schenker through a large bond sale. The company is expected to issue four…
The Polish transport and logistics company CLIP Group is launching a new container and semi-trailer rail service between the Polish Swarzedz terminal and the Can…
The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is supposed to provide a shortcut to rail freight traffic, alongside road traffic, from Germany into Scandinavia. The grand opening of the…
A major study of the development of rail freight in the industrial and agricultural sectors in France has concluded that there is the potential for…
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 Turkish rail sector can count on a funding of 305 billion Turkish lira (8,2 billion euros) in 2025, which is significantly higher than in…
The Kuryk port in Kazakhstan, located on the Caspian Sea coast, now has a new grain terminal. The opening comes at a vital moment, as…
The Arctic Express, Russia’s new freight line to the northern port of Arkhangelsk, has completed its first operational season. Since mid August, Russia has run…
International interest in Afghanistan as a transit hub is growing, with Kazakhstan being one of the key players in setting up logistics through the Afghan…
A new intermodal pilot project to move Volkswagen products between Germany and Spain will start in 2025. The initiative, led by the German Association of…
The modal shift incentive at the Port of Southampton has contributed to improvements in intermodal cargo handling numbers. The operators of the Solent Rail Terminal…
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…
A French Parliamentary bill aimed at developing rail freight has been tabled by a group of MPs which, if passed into law, would oblige all…
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…
The Öresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden is the site of a pilot project that is supposed to reduce maintenance on the rail tracks. With…
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…
The Port of Constanta, on Romania’s Black Sea coast, is getting a new rail access. The project, valued at 750 million lei (approximately 150 million…
The Polish infrastructure ministry wants to build a fourth track on the rail line south of Gdańsk, towards the rail hub of Tczew. It is…
A UK government department has taken the unusual step of issuing an official “Urgent Safety Advice” following the derailment of an aggregates train in Manchester…
The Spanish government authorised the signing of a tripartite agreement to start construction of the new southern rail entrance to the port of Barcelona. The…