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…
Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration, has published its rail plan for 2025. As part of the largest planned works, the agency intends to upgrade the…
There is a purchase and sale agreement for Estonian national rail operator Operail. It is Tiigi Keskus, an Estonian real estate company that also owns…
The German Ministry of Transport presented its rail traffic forecast for 2040, showing significant optimism especially when it comes to freight. Concerning total tonnes transported,…
The UK Budget, delivered today (30 October), was a series of firsts. It was the first by the new government, elected just over three months…
Amid a financial crisis at the company, Polish national rail freight operator PKP Cargo found itself forced to lay off thousands of its employees to…
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.…
Problems on the Russian railway network seem to be persistent and worsening. Reportedly, there are more and more locomotives being left unused, all the while…
Besides the recently announced 400 million dollar deal with Kazakh Railways (KTZ), American rail technology company Wabtec is delivering more rolling stock to the rail…
The Kazakh Port of Kuryk, on the Caspian Sea coast, will get three new terminals. They are supposed to be ready by 2027, and Abu…
Wabtec, an American rail technology company, will deliver locomotives to Kazakh Railways (KTZ) valued at 405 million dollars. KTZ is currently renewing its locomotive fleet,…
Austrian rail freight operator Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is launching a new service through its recently established Serbian subsidiary. The service will connect Serbia’s capital…
The Spanish ministry of transport began two feasibility studies concerning the port of A Coruña, in the northwest of the country. One of the studies…
France has published a “national master plan” for combined transport. Drawn up by the State Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Transport and Mobility (DGITM), in close collaboration…
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 Greening Freight Package remains a significant initiative for the European Union. One of its pillars, the Combined Transport Directive, is however once again in…
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 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 Slovenian Parliament officially approved the project to double the Divača-Koper railway line. Construction works for the second track leading into the country’s largest port…
The east of Spain is currently experiencing extreme weather conditions, especially in the area of Valencia. The events have already claimed dozens of lives, caused…
Croatia is planning to invest a record 6 billion euros in its railway infrastructure during the coming decade. Its infrastructure manager, HŽ Infrastruktura, says that…
The London Olympics of 2012 is still developing, and rail freight is the last medal winner. The UK infrastructure agency Network Rail has been given…