Containers pile up at UK’s ports due to Brexit and pandemic
Post-Brexit trade disruption and ongoing congestion are causing critical build-ups of containers at UK ports, according to the latest data from Container xChange. The UK’s…
Clock ticking on UK enhancements programme
The Rail Industry Association, the representative body for the rail supply chain in the UK, has asked the UK government when they can expect the…
‘Everyone should have a fair share of COVID-19 support measurements’
Non-discriminatory support measures for everyone in the rail freight sector. That is what the European Rail Freight Association wants from the European Commission and the…
Post-lockdown surge at UK ports, rail can help
Britain’s largest intermodal port Felixstowe saw disrupted global trade flows result in traffic backed up at the quayside. With road traffic struggling to cope, rail…
Freightliner and Tarmac build on relationship with new contract
The familiar names of Freightliner and Tarmac have signed a wide-ranging contract, cementing their existing relationship. The rail freight haulier will support a number of…
Little room for optimism among combined transport operators
Combined transport volumes have decreased by 7 per cent this year, and this is a trens unlikely to swing in the other direction soon. Companies…
How companies deal with new pandemic consignment demands
Since roughly March this year rail freight companies have seen an increase in exceptional consignments. These include products that had to be transported specifically to…
Support for rail industry proving complicated and divisive
Germany, Britain and France are all finding support for their rail industries to be a complex matter. Competing interests have survived the coronavirus pandemic, and…
Negative sentiment over combined transport in 2019
European combined transport had a difficult year in 2019. It was a year of reckoning after the optimism of the year before, concludes the UIRR.…
‘Help Europe recover with user-pays, polluter-pays principles’
Europe’s economic recovery after COVID-19 must be green, also in transport. Transport should help finance the recovery, through application of user-pays and polluter-pays principles. This…
UK government to announce massive investment plans
This week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a massive programme of infrastructure investment for the UK. There is speculation as to how…
EU proposes waiving of track access charges as support measure
The European Commission has proposed a regulation that allows EU Member States to waive or reduce track access charges as well as reservation charges. This…