Polish farmers to block Ukrainian agricultural exports by rail
Polish farmers intend to block the export of Ukrainian agricultural goods by rail. They plan to hinder the transfer of goods from rail to road…
Sugar beets on rails: RCG sets up dedicated agricultural services
Between October 2023 and January 2024, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group freight trains in Austria and Hungary will be busy serving a particular segment of the…
Reefer transport via Russia: possibility there, but what about demand?
EU products that need to be placed inside reefer containers, especially agri-food products, have had trouble transiting Russia for a long time. They were subjected…
Rail for Ukrainian grain exports: a necessity or the future?
Before the war in Ukraine, only 11 per cent of all exports was done by rail. In the period March-July, rail handled 41 per cent…
Ukraine’s transhipment capacity insufficient, but EU helps out
Ukraine’s transhipment capacity is insufficient to handle the agricultural cargo volumes pending on the Western Ukrainian border. The country’s infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov underlined that…
Rail freight becomes key in French cereal supply chain
SNCF Réseau, the French rail infrastructure manager, and Soufflet, a French agri-food group and cereal exporter, are cooperating to improve the position of rail freight…
RZD Logistics tests agro-trains between Kazakhstan and China
Since the year’s start, the Kazakhstan branch of RZD Logistics sent two dedicated trains with agricultural products to China. The two trains carried 124 40-foot…
Lyon-China line now for cooled transport
The rail freight service from the French city of Lyon to Wuhan in Central China is now available for refrigerated agricultural products. Trains are loaded…