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From the beginning of this week and next, Hupac will be launching two services involving the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia.
With effect from 1 April 2023, Andrew Barr, currently Group CEO of Hitachi Rail, will assume the role of Vice President and Executive Officer in charge of Regional Strategies (EMEA) and President of Hitachi Europe Ltd.
The 16th edition of the European Railway Award, held in Brussels, was heavily influenced by current events in Ukraine and the sector's commitment to diversity.
NEXRAIL.lease is further expanding its leasing business in Western Europe with an order for 50 low-emission DE 18 Stage V locomotives from Vossloh Rolling Stock.
The projects are expected to improve cross-border rail services in the EU, making them faster, more frequent and more affordable.
PKP CARGOTABOR, a company of the PKP CARGO Group, has concluded a contract for the purchase of assets of the liquidated branch of Alstom Pojazdy Szynowe Sp. z o.o.
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).
GATX unveiled its new grain wagons - the Tagnpps - for the ÖBB Rail Cargo Group.
The sustainable road-rail combination is the latest innovation in the long-standing European partnership of both companies.
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.
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.
The order is worth EUR 50 million and the trains will be manufactured at the Škoda Group's Finnish production plant in Otanmäki.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Among other things, the new CEO Michal Brijar wants to focus on the rail business.
The accident occurred in the station area of Fürnitz in Carinthia in Austria on Friday morning.
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.
Operational cargo turnover in 2022 amounted to 252 billion ton-kilometers, which is 5.3% more than in 2021.
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.
Bernd Decker retires, and Mathias Leiner is the new CEO of ERS Railways GmbH, a Hupac Group branch for maritime inland transportation.
Last year, ČD Cargo's market share reached 58.43 %.
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.
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.
The GUARDIA system will be used for the first time on a large scale in the maintenance sector at Deutsche Bahn.
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.
Siemens Mobility to deliver 1,200 electric locomotives and provide 35 years of full-service maintenance.
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.
The new certificate has a term of five years and is valid until the beginning of December 2027.
This subsidiary means faster TransFER connections to Greece and Turkey and connection of Serbian business to the international Rail Cargo Group network.
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.
RegioJet, Central Europe's largest private passenger rail operator, was awarded a single safety certificate for passenger rail operations in Germany in December 2022.
Beginning 16 January 2023, EUROGATE Intermodal GmbH (EGIM) will add Wilhelmshaven, Germany’s only deep-water port, to its portfolio of connections.
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.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) continues to increase its staff. The bottom line is that around 9,000 additional jobs are expected to be created.
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.
The amount was over 23 million tons and 15% more than in 2021.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The strike is underway from Tuesday to Saturday.
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.
DB has already approved around 1,000 vehicles for refueling with the climate-friendly biofuel HVO in 2022.
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.
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.