Latvia appoints special Rail Baltica secretary amid strategy change
In the midst of a troubled implementation of Rail Baltica in Latvia, the country is undergoing a strategy change. Latvia is centralising the project’s management…
European transport sector calls for more EU-funding
A coalition of over 40 European transport associations is calling for additional EU funding for the sector. The European Rail Freight Association (ERFA) states that…
New EU sanctions have direct impact on transport, rail excluded
A fifth package of sanctions has been announced by the EU. Among others, the EU wants to ban Russian and Belarusian road transport operators, as…
EU funding available for rail freight projects
Rail freight projects across Europe are urged to bid for their share of a 1.9 billion Euros fund aimed at stimulating growth and creating jobs. Cross-border connections,…
Rail freight loses market share to self-driving road transport
Thomas Steffens van Boston Consulting GroupIn the coming years, the rail freight sector must significantly reduce costs and increase quality. If railway freight companies do…
Robert van der Waal, Director of Logistics Operations for Samsung – Business case for combining rail freight
More and more businesses are joining the NewWays community, which matches shippers from Southern Holland up with each other to create combined shipment journeys on European…
The General Contract of Use for wagons – the most far reaching legal texts in the railway arena
The General Contract of Use (GCU) has been in force since July 1 2006, and governs international carriage of goods by rail – and by…
European information portal on last-mile infrastructure for rail freight
The structure of the European rail freight market has profoundly changed over the past decades and road competition is further increasing. This situation is particularly…
EU-warning: rail freight still not on the right track
Despite the European Commission’s objective of shifting freight from road to rail, rail’s share of EU freight has actually declined slightly since 2011, according to…