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National Sea Logistics Customer Care Manager in Kuehne+Nagel company and his views on the actual challenges in railway transport.
“We are interested in ensuring that reliability, as one of the key characteristics of rail transport, is also valid on the Czech railway, not only in Switzerland,” says Czech minister of transport Martin Kupka in the second part of the interview for RAILMARKET.com, which focuses on passenger rail transport.
New figures reveal that young people are involved in more than half of incidents at one Yorkshire station - 6 of the 11 incidents reported at Cross Gates station in the past year involved young people.
The Board of Directors has appointed him as the new Group CEO with effect from 1 January 2023. The current CEO Peter Spuhler will become the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The line will have a fixed timetable with three round trips per week.
Whereby China International Marine Containers (CIMC) would acquire Maersk Container Industry (MCI), a leading manufacturer of refrigerated containers, from Maersk.
Last week, Cargounit leased a Smartron locomotive, manufactured by Siemens Mobility, to Romanian company Unicom Transit at Băneasa Royal Station in Bucharest.
The system of remuneration and indicators linked to the annual remuneration of members of the Správa železnic (Railway Administration) management for 2023 includes new criteria. They aim to focus the functioning of this state organization not only on investments but also on ensuring greater reliability of the railway network in the Czech Republic.
Welsh slate aggregate is being transported to Luton via rail freight for the first time, thanks to a joint initiative between Network Rail, construction materials company Breedon, and the Welsh Government.
The Italian carrier is relying on the new state-of-the-art Lesegno freight station.
Alstom company starts passenger service on this route with 14 Coradia iLint trains in Bremervörde, Lower Saxony, Germany.
On August 28, 2012, the first train with local mineral water left the main bottling plant of Mattoni mineral water company along the restored siding to the nearest railway station.
The resolution was adopted by the government because of the low water level on the Rhine. The river carries coal to power stations.
The Metra Board of Directors approved a first-of-its-kind plan to convert up to six of Metra’s oldest diesel locomotives to zero-emission battery power.
The contract is to provide full-service maintenance for the fleet of 60 DE-6400 locomotives operating in Belgium and the Netherlands.
ThPA S.A. launched a new regular service with block trains between Thessaloniki and Niš, Serbia.
Damage to DB is expected in the amount of hundreds of million euros.
The trains ordered are the new generation 4-voltage high-speed trains worth almost 590 million euros.
100MW facility could deliver up to 40 tonnes of green hydrogen per day - enough to power 1300 hydrogen trucks. International export is also being explored.
MoU wants to mainly find investment opportunities in the transport sector.
On Sunday 14 August 2022, another six-car metro train left the gates of the ŠKODA plant in Plzeň and traveled with ČD Cargo via Prague, Havlíčkův Brod, Brno, Přerov, and Bohumín to the Polish capital.
The project is to be finished within a few more weeks.
Frankfurt's regional court made this decision on the grounds that it is time-barred.
The new center, located in Derby UK uses real-time monitoring and analytics.
The company's managing director was appointed Enver Eser.
Thousands of travelers are often affected by up to ten hours of delay. Heads will roll within Správa železnic, the state provider of the national and regional railway infrastructure.
The new product is operated by EP Cargo company.
ShipMonk, an American-Czech company, focuses on outsourcing logistics for American e-shops for which it stores and ships their goods. Cheb town is suitable, among other things, for the European rail corridor from Prague to Nuremberg passes through the town. In addition, the railway connection with the border areas of Germany and the Czech Republic is provided by a local line.
Andrzej Pawłowski has been appointed since the beginnig of August.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) focused on how the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Railway Administration (Správa železnic - SŽ) allocated state and EU funds for the reconstruction of selected non-corridor railway lines from 2016 to mid-2021.
After nearly a year of test drives, the Finnish Transport and Communication Agency Traficom granted permission for the first C30-MF locomotive constructed in Operail’s depot in Tapa, Estonia, to operate on the Finnish public railway.
Maersk has reached an agreement to acquire Martin Bencher Group, a Denmark-based project logistics company with capabilities within non-containerized project logistics. Simultaneously Maersk announced to deliver record revenue, more than 50 percent.
EU presidency Transport Minister Martin Kupka: digitalisation is a way to make significant savings in terms of the efficiency of transport connections. Another topic of the EU presidency is the further development of the TEN-T network – key routes across Europe, both on rail and in other modes of transport.
At the Herne container terminal in North Rhine-Westphalia, a train collided with several stationary freight wagons. The driver was nearly crushed by the wagons but he jumped off in time.
The research of FH Aachen aims to develop a train shunting assistance system based on an advanced sensor set including Blickfeld LiDAR technology.
The 40-year-old Philipp Nagl will take over as Chairman of the Management Board of DB Netz AG from the half of August 2022.
The company has announced that they establish three new lines and one updating trip.
The animal, which photo shows being injured on the shell, escaped from a pet shop.
Employees get an energy bonus of up to 150 euros if they manage to save energy at their workplaces as well and the campaign is successful.
Three TEM18DM diesel locomotives manufactured by the Bryansk Engineering Plant (BMZ, part of Transmashholding) have joined the locomotive fleet of Karelsky Okatysh JSC (a subsidiary of Severstal PJSC) in 2022
The Czech largest rail freight carrier ČD Cargo and Siemens Mobility Czech Republic signed a contract in mid-July for the purchase of ten interoperable multi-system Siemens Vectron MS electric locomotives (variant A54).
TransPod unveils the FluxJet, a vehicle for ultra-high-speed transportation of passengers and cargo at over 1,000km/h.
For the whole year 2022, DB expects an operating profit of more than one billion euros.
The European Commission approves state aid in German to compensate Deutsche Bahn for damages suffered by its subsidiaries because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Maritime Transport introduces rail service in partnership with P&O Ferries, connecting TILBURY2 with the newly-refurbished Trafford Park Euroterminal in Manchester.
On the contrary, the proposal extends four European Transport Corridors to Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova.
Dorothy, HS2’s whopping 2000-tonne custom-made tunnel boring machine (TBM), made the very first tunneling breakthrough on Europe’s largest infrastructure project.
The international rail company AS Operail closed the year 2021 successfully: the group’s revenue increased to 73 million euros, which is a 12 percent increase compared to the previous year. Thanks to added freight volumes and improved work efficiency, the group’s EBITDA increased to 17.2 million euros, which is an impressive 16 percent increase compared to the previous year.
A week after Antwerp-Bruges, RAILMARKET.com brings figures from another important European port. There are a lot of changes caused by the war in Ukraine in this port's throughput as well.
This signalling project is part of the contract awarded in 2015 to a consortium led by Alstom to build and maintain, for over 20 years, the latest-generation signalling and telecommunications systems on the Valladolid-León and Venta de Baños-Burgos high-speed line.