GB Railfreight, the British carrier, has agreed a new two-year contract extension with DP World, the multinational maritime resources corporation. GBRf will provide staff to…
PKP Cargo had employees who worked fake double or even triple jobs. Reportedly, the company dismissed two regional directors involved in the scheme to award…
PKP Cargo’s maintenance subsidiary PKP Cargotabor is reportedly losing employees without having to fire them. Employees “cannot stand the pressure” amid PKP’s financial trouble and…
Regiorail, a rail freight company active in France fruit of a joint venture between Belgian logistics company Eurorail and US-based, Railroad Development Corporation, is set…
Despite all its recent freight growth and international expansion plans, Ukrainian Railways now finds itself in a problematic situation. The Ukrainian operator says that it…
The Spanish infrastructure manager Adif assigned three tenders for almost 107 million euros to enable rolling highway services along the Madrid-Zaragoza railway. This is an…
A Latvian parliamentary inquiry has cast doubt on the legality of the country’s Rail Baltica plans. The head of the inquiry committee, Andris Kulbergs, says…
The Estonian government approved the beginning of the second and final phase of the sale of the state-owned rail freight operator Operail. Interested parties can…
The Kremlin is suspending its rail priority rules until the end of 2024. The suspension was to be in place until 1 September, but Russia…
GB Railfreight (GBRf) has acquired four new electric “Class 18 hybrid+” shunters (switchers) from manufacturer Clayton Equipment. The new locomotives will step into roles traditionally…
A temporary increase in freight trains to be operated on a rail line in eastern France has triggered anger among local residents and led to…
The accident in the Gotthard Base Tunnel, between Switzerland and Italy, which took place one year ago, has led the European Union Agency for Railways…
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…
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…
Shipping giant MSC has recently taken over a site near the port of Trieste, in northeastern Italy, and is reconverting it into a rolling stock…
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 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.…
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,…
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…
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 modal shift incentive at the Port of Southampton has contributed to improvements in intermodal cargo handling numbers. The operators of the Solent Rail Terminal…
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 London Olympics of 2012 is still developing, and rail freight is the last medal winner. The UK infrastructure agency Network Rail has been given…
Rail Baltica has been Europe’s flagship cross-border rail project, but exploding construction costs have led to a re-evaluation of its ambitions. It is especially Latvia…
Works to secure the cliff above the section of the Frejus Railway damaged by a landslide in August 2023 will last until December. Only after…
DB InfraGO, Germany’s rail infrastructure manager, has “consciously or unconsciously” announced a delay in the implementation of ETCS on the Riedbahn. The crucial rail artery…