The Polish state-owned rail freight operator PKP Cargo has signed three contracts for the transportation of coal. The contracts, signed with the energy company Enea…
France’s second biggest inland port of Strasbourg, in eastern France, has unveiled a 70 million-euro project to create a new rail freight terminal with the…
The Port of Hamburg is no longer accepting trains due to ongoing strikes at its terminal facilities. On 29 August, port workers announced the strikes…
CargoBeamer is doubling the frequency of its service on the Calais – Perpignan route. From Saturday 7 October, the company will offer four weekly round…
Poland and Lithuania are fighting cigarette smuggling on freight trains coming from their neighbour Belarus. The former seems to encounter a growing number of attempts…
A “premiere”, as Tailwind Intermodal calls it in its own press release. The subsidiary of supermarket chain Lidl has started as a rail operator. The…
Russian state-owned bank VTB has purchased Freight One. Earlier, the bank took over the rail freight operator’s management. In February, Freight One pledged nearly 70…
Turkish state rolling stock manufacturer Türasaş is developing a wagon that can carry military vehicles as well as containers. The design of the wagon focuses…
Nearly three quarters of all rail freight transportation is being carried out below the cost price in Kazakhstan. As a result, the country awaits more…
Hundreds of Eurasian rail and supply chain professionals are gathering in one place. Key Silk Road topics are highlighted on the agenda. A European capital…
Rising track access charges (TAC) in Germany are threatening the very existence of private wagon keepers and wagon maintenance companies, according to the German Private…
Nine French rail operators are seeking compensation from SNCF Réseau claiming it abused a force majeure clause to avoid compensating for train cancellations during strikes…
Private rail freight operators Lotos Kolej and Freightliner PL have shown the best financial performance among their Polish counterparts in 2023. The companies achieved the…
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…
In the UK, the home fires are no longer burning. It really is the end of coal. Although rail delivered the last load on 28…
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…
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…
After the start of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia suspended its regular priority rules for the rail network. Since then, Russian Railways (RZD) has had…
Vietnam is planning to extend the standard gauge rail connection to China all the way down to Ho Chi Minh City in the country’s south.…
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…
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…
French company Open Modal, is understood to be in exclusive negotiations with SNCF Réseau to acquire and modernise the existing road-rail combined transport terminal located…
MSC’s rail freight arm Medway started operating a new terminal in Badajoz, located on the Spanish border with Portugal. “This terminal allows the operation of…
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,…
After the start of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia suspended its regular priority rules for the rail network. Since then, Russian Railways (RZD) has had…
The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union has proposed a new definition of combined transport. There is a lot of disagreement about…
The Rail Freight Group, Britain’s representative body for the sector, says it’s time to renew the concerted lobby of elected representatives in support of growth.…
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…
Twenty Romanian diesel shunting locomotives have been saved and given an opportunity for revival. The locomotives would typically be scrapped as they near the end…
Digitisation and digitalisation are two of the most used words when discussing the future of rail freight. RailCube, a software company based in Rotterdam, provides…
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…
After disastrous floods hit Austria in September, the country’s rail infrastructure was left with unprecedented damage, especially in the northeast, in the area of the…
The German Christian Democratic parliamentary group CDU/CSU rejected Deutsche Bahn’s (DB) project for German access to the Brenner Base Tunnel, running between Austria and Italy.…
The planned railway between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, Hafeet Rail, can count on 1,5 billion US dollars out of the 2,5 billion in…