Business

Renfe: 34 women drive trains in Saudi Arabia, for the first time in history

This means that 24% of the 140 drivers are women. The average age of the new drivers is 26.8 years and 73% of them are university graduates. They drive trains on the Haramain high-speed railway between Mecca and Medina, operated by Renfe KSA (the Saudi branch of the Spanish operator).

January 31, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

GATX: new grain railcar type

GATX unveiled its new grain wagons - the Tagnpps - for the ÖBB Rail Cargo Group.

January 31, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

XPO and Schneider Electric: new multimodal freight link between UK and France

The sustainable road-rail combination is the latest innovation in the long-standing European partnership of both companies.

January 30, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Global coal consumption to remain high, creating opportunities for rail freight

Global coal consumption is set to rise by 1.2% last year, topping 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time and eclipsing the previous record set in 2013, according to Coal 2022, the IEA's latest annual market report on the sector.

January 30, 2023 · 4 min read

Freight Rail

TX Logistik AG: New rail freight connection between Wilhelmshaven and Southern Germany

Since mid-January, the rail logistics company, which is part of Mercitalia Logistics, has been operating one round trip per week between the Jade-Weser port and the rail terminals in Nuremberg and Kornwestheim.

January 27, 2023 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

VR Group has ordered eight freight wagons for cars and nine sleeping coaches from Škoda Group

The order is worth EUR 50 million and the trains will be manufactured at the Škoda Group's Finnish production plant in Otanmäki.

January 26, 2023 · 2 min read

Business

Adif offers Barcelona freight terminal for 20-year lease

The rental area of the La Llagosta terminal is more than 105,000 m2 and will be leased for a minimum of 16.6 million euros.

January 26, 2023 · 2 min read

Technology & Innovation

Europe could generate €200bn by tripling high-speed rail

The study confirms that investing in a comprehensive European high-speed rail (HRS) network will bring added value to European society and massively reduce the environmental impact of European passenger transport.

January 25, 2023 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

ERMEWA, INVEHO and RAILENIUM launch the M4.0 innovation project

The wagon keeper ERMEWA SA, the workshop and wagon builder INVEHO and the French Research Institute for Railway Technology IRT RAILENIUM have set up their joint research and innovation project Maintenance 4.0 (M4.0). With the M4.0 project, these rail freight companies have set themselves the goal of promoting condition-based and predictive maintenance.

January 25, 2023 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

PKP LHS Company achieved the best result in its history

In 2022, PKP LHS Company carried 11.108 million tonnes. According to the company, it happened despite the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, the closure of the borders with Russia and Belarus, and the Black Sea ports.

January 24, 2023 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

DB Cargo: faster rail freight connection between France and Barcelona

DB Cargo's Spanish subsidiary Transfesa made its first journey between the French city of Perpignan and the port of Barcelona with 100 % DB Cargo power and new locomotives.

January 24, 2023 · 2 min read

Business

Thein Industry: changes in top management

Among other things, the new CEO Michal Brijar wants to focus on the rail business.

January 23, 2023 · 3 min read

Rolling Stock

The cause of two freight trains crash in Austria still unclear

The accident occurred in the station area of Fürnitz in Carinthia in Austria on Friday morning.

January 23, 2023 · 1 min read

Freight Rail

Network Rail and Varamis Rail launch new zero carbon freight service

The service, which launched last week, will run between Scotland and the Midlands, Monday to Friday. Targeted at express parcels and third-party delivery companies, it will primarily deal with the next-day delivery of consumer goods.

January 20, 2023 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

Kazakhstan Railway: higher cargo turnover and to enter foreign logistics markets

Operational cargo turnover in 2022 amounted to 252 billion ton-kilometers, which is 5.3% more than in 2021.

January 20, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

3Seas railway will help also both civil and military freight in the region

Almost 4,500 km of High-Speed Railway (HSR) lines are planned for the Three Seas Region. The first sections, including the Warsaw – Łódź route, should be launched as early as 2028.

January 19, 2023 · 6 min read

Business

Changes in the ERS Railways top management

Bernd Decker retires, and Mathias Leiner is the new CEO of ERS Railways GmbH, a Hupac Group branch for maritime inland transportation.

January 19, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

ČD Cargo still dominates the Czech rail freight transport market

Last year, ČD Cargo's market share reached 58.43 %.

January 19, 2023 · 2 min read

Infrastructure

Czechia: modernization of the line to the Václav Havel Airport begins

This is another of a series of constructions which will result in a fast and ecological railway connection from the centre of Prague to Kladno with a branch line to Václav Havel Airport.

January 18, 2023 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

Port of Antwerp-Bruges: throughput down 0.7% year-on-year, but coal 210% up

Geopolitical tensions, the energy crisis, and ongoing disruptions in supply chains put sustained pressure on the container segment. This affected the throughput of this port, which was down 0.7% year-on-year to 286.9 million tons of cargo.

January 18, 2023 · 4 min read

Technology & Innovation

Stadler is fitting Deutsche Bahn vehicles with signaling equipment

The GUARDIA system will be used for the first time on a large scale in the maintenance sector at Deutsche Bahn.

January 17, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Operail leaves the Finnish freight transport market

The Estonian state-owned railway company Operail has signed the contract of sale of its subsidiary Operail Finland, which provides freight transport services in Finland. The sales price is 27.7 million euros as a result of the sales process competition.

January 17, 2023 · 3 min read

Business

Siemens Mobility awarded largest locomotive order in company history - a €3 billion project in India

Siemens Mobility to deliver 1,200 electric locomotives and provide 35 years of full-service maintenance.

January 17, 2023 · 3 min read

Business

GEFCO brand becomes CEVA Logistics

With this change, CEVA Logistics announced the creation of a dedicated Finished Vehicle Logistics (FVL) organization as part of its integration of GEFCO. The move comes following the purchase of the French automotive logistics specialist in July 2022 by the CMA CGM Group.

January 16, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

TX Logistik AB: single safety certificate for Sweden and Denmark renewed

The new certificate has a term of five years and is valid until the beginning of December 2027.

January 16, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group establishes a new subsidiary in Serbia

This subsidiary means faster TransFER connections to Greece and Turkey and connection of Serbian business to the international Rail Cargo Group network.

January 13, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

VPI: 25 % market share for railway freight traffic needs quick acting

Modernizing infrastructure, introducing ETCS and Digital Automatic Coupling, and counteracting the shortage of skilled workers – Malte Lawrenz focused on these three fields of action at the opening of the 13th VPI Symposium.

January 13, 2023 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

RegioJet: certificate for passenger rail in Germany and rail freight in Austria

RegioJet, Central Europe's largest private passenger rail operator, was awarded a single safety certificate for passenger rail operations in Germany in December 2022.

January 13, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

New connection of Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven with southern Germany

Beginning 16 January 2023, EUROGATE Intermodal GmbH (EGIM) will add Wilhelmshaven, Germany’s only deep-water port, to its portfolio of connections.

January 13, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Czech Betrian Group develops technologies for safer railways using satellite data

In addition to EUSPA, Betrian Group is also working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop technologies - for hazard warning. Thus the company plans to contribute to the modernization of European ETCS security.

January 12, 2023 · 2 min read

Business

Deutsche Bahn plans more than 25,000 new hires this year

Deutsche Bahn (DB) continues to increase its staff. The bottom line is that around 9,000 additional jobs are expected to be created.

January 12, 2023 · 2 min read

Business

Alstom awarded £12 million overhaul contract for ScotRail trains

The contract to carry out mileage-based modernization on ScotRail’s Class 334 fleet of 40 trains that serve the Edinburgh to Glasgow line. The contract was placed by Eversholt Rail who lease the trains to ScotRail.

January 11, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Railway transportation of goods between Kazakhstan and China reached a historical maximum in 2022

The amount was over 23 million tons and 15% more than in 2021.

January 11, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

LTG Cargo and LTG Cargo Polska start transporting coal by rail to Poland

The cargo will be transported in special containers from Klaipėda seaport to Trakiškės, then LTG Cargo Polska will provide transportation to Bialystok, and from there the partners will transport the coal to Braniewo in North-West Poland.

January 10, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Xi'an sees rise in China-Europe freight-train trips

Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, saw a surge in China-Europe freight-train trips in 2022, local authorities told a press conference last week.

January 9, 2023 · 1 min read

Passenger Rail

Finland: 29.7 million tonnes of goods were transported by rail in 2022

Regarding passenger trains, last year, a total of 13.2 million domestic long-distance train trips were made, which is about 58% more than in 2021 and about 8% less than in 2019.

January 9, 2023 · 3 min read

Rolling Stock

Czech Railways wants to buy 15 battery trains

At the end of last year, Czech Railways (České dráhy) announced a tender for the supply and servicing of trains powered by overhead lines and high-capacity batteries.

January 7, 2023 · 3 min read

Business

Ligita Austrupe appointed as Chairperson of the RB Rail AS Supervisory Board

Ligita Austrupe, a senior management executive, Head of the Responsible Authority of the administration of the EU funds in Latvia at the Ministry of Transport, and member of RB Rail AS Supervisory Board since 2019 has been elected as the Chairperson of RB Rail AS Supervisory Board and will be replacing the former Chairperson Romas Švedas.

January 6, 2023 · 3 min read

Infrastructure

Systra Sotecni, SWS Engineering and Alstom will provide a new signalling system to all the EAV Vesuvian lines.

Alstom acting as the Head of a Temporary Association of Enterprises (ATI), consisting of Consorzio Integra, Icop, and Euroferroviaria, with engineering assigned to companies including Systra Sotecni, SWS Engineering and Alstom, who will provide a new signalling system to the EAV Vesuvian lines.

January 5, 2023 · 2 min read

Infrastructure

UK amid rail strike

The strike is underway from Tuesday to Saturday.

January 5, 2023 · 3 min read

Business

Port of Duisburg: Lars Nennhaus completes duisport Executive Board

The Port of Duisburg’s Executive Board trio is once again complete: Lars Nennhaus has been a new member of the Executive Board of Duisburger Hafen AG since January 1, 2023, with responsibility for Technology and Operations. The industrial engineer succeeds Thomas Schlipköther, who left the Port Executive Board at the end of 2022 when he reached retirement age.

January 4, 2023 · 2 min read

Technology & Innovation

DB: €1.5 billion investment in phasing out diesel by 2027

DB has already approved around 1,000 vehicles for refueling with the climate-friendly biofuel HVO in 2022.

January 4, 2023 · 3 min read

Passenger Rail

Talgo: launching Intercity trains in Egypt

Egypt’s national railway company ENR has started the commercial operation of the Intercity trains built by Talgo in Spain. The first services connect the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and Alexandria city.

January 3, 2023 · 2 min read

Business

A. P. Moller - Maersk completes acquisition of project logistics Martin Bencher Group

A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) announces the completion of its acquisition of Martin Bencher Group, a Danish Project Logistics expert within non-containerized project logistics and global operations.

January 3, 2023 · 1 min read

Freight Rail

12 new locomotives from Progress Rail for Australian Qube

Qube, the Australian provider of import and export logistics services, announced the acquisition of dozen new GT46 locomotives from Progress Rail - a Caterpillar Company.

January 2, 2023 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Military mobility: additional freight transport between ports of the Baltic Sea and Ukraine

During his recent visit to Poland, Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis discussed with the Polish Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk cooperation in creating new freight corridors between the ports of the Baltic Sea countries and Ukraine.

January 2, 2023 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

€200 million: hall extension at the ICE plant in Berliner Rummelsburg

Deutsche Bahn (DB) has invested around 200 million euros in the expansion and extended the five-track hall by 200 meters. Now trains up to 400 meters long, such as the XXL-ICE 4, or two shorter trains in a row can be maintained here on one track.

December 30, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

RIA Scotland welcomes rail investment plans

RIA Scotland has welcomed both the Scottish Government’s commitment to sustaining rail funding in the Budget and the publication of the second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2).

December 29, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Serbia: after ammonia freight train derailment over 50 people poisoned

Tragedy has occurred in southeastern Serbia, near Pirot town.

December 28, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

ÖBB invests EUR 75 million in new rolling stock

On 1 January 2023, the new Waste Management Act (AWG) will come into force in Austria, which is important on the way to a modal shift.

December 28, 2022 · 2 min read