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The Danish shipping giant will start offering a new route via Barcelona port as a shorter alternative to routes via French or north European ports to reach Toulouse, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Swedish rail freight carrier ProTrain has obtained ten 2x40 InnoWagons with the Smart GigaWood stanchion system.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester and Liverpool will be scrapped, and the entire funding of £36 billion will be redirected to a series of projects now called Network North.
The Polish company of Genessee & Wyoming increases its grain haulage east-west capacity with forty new Tagnpps wagons.
To tackle the typical autumn and winter problem on rail tracks – fallen leaves – Northern Trains has joined forces with Water-Trak to apply proven technology in a new way.
Over 200 new hopper wagons are built at Greenbrier’s manufacturing facility in Poland and will enter service in 2024.
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has confirmed that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a stake of approximately 50% in Italo - Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A (Italo).
The new container size is the biggest in China, and the 50-foot containers have a volume capacity of 50% more than the standard 40-foot containers.
Intermodal traffic revived in late September and early October with new connections in the United Kingdom, Austria, France, and Australia. In addition, seasonal sugar beet traffic started in Hungary.
The double-voltage locomotives will be added to the fleet of ten Siemens EuroSprinter locomotives currently owned by the Hungarian passenger rail operator.
Two infrastructure divisions of DB, one taking care of the railway network (DB Netz) and the other responsible for stations and services (DB Station&Service) will merge from 1.1.2024 into a single DB company.
The Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants (ALLRAIL) points at DB for refusing to sell tickets of its competitors on its ticket sales portals in Germany while benefitting from such an approach in the UK.
The study recommends decarbonising operations on Nordlandsbanen, Rørosbanen, Solørbanen and Raumabanen.
The Swiss cross-Alpine operator will add ten more Siemens Vectron locomotives with improved traction for pulling heavier trains across the Alps.
On 18 September 2023, freight rail traffic resumed on New Zealand’s North Island, heading to Hawke Bay and an important connection of the island with the world – the Napier Port.
After a long selection process, Spanish state-owned rail freight carrier Renfe Mercancías selected its strategic partner to create a JV where all assets and employees will be moved.
Based on an expanded cooperation agreement between Transnet Freight Rail and Caminhos De Ferros De Mocambique, more seamless trains will flow from chromite-rich deposits of South Africa to the port of Maputo in Mozambique.
The subsidies aim to contribute to decarbonising freight transport and rebalancing the modal distribution to increase the weight of trains.
The Oregon-based company that builds, maintains and leases freight wagons in North America, Europe and Brazil, booked a record-breaking order in its fiscal fourth quarter that ended in August.
Both rolling stock leasing companies that have strengthened their position on the Polish market in recent years reap the benefits by signing new lease agreements for their locomotives.
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and global shipping company MSC agreed on a strategic partnership. MSC will take over 49.9% of Hamburger Hafen und Logistic AG (HHLA) shares.
A consortium of Contargo, SFI GmbH and the Ziegler Group will operate the new bimodal container terminal in the Danube port of Straubing-Sand near Regensburg from the second quarter of 2025.
Governments of India, the US, Saudi Arabia, the European Union, the UAE, France, Germany and Italy signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the India – Middle East – Europe Economic Corridor.
Many of us dream of a single website that offers cheap train tickets for travel all over Europe. However, due to the intricacies of European railway systems, this remains a dream. To demystify the rail market and show you how to travel affordably or even for free, here's a comprehensive guide.
The new agreement between the Argentinian Ministry of Transport and three agricultural business companies, Trenes Argentinos Cargas will get funding to modernise four locomotives and purchase 180 new wagons.
PKP CARGO was announced as a winner of a tender to transport 18 million tonnes of coal and limestone for companies belonging to PGE Group over the next two and a half years.
The first two out of five overhauled Class 39 locomotives by Traxtion will start operation in east Africa, with the remaining locomotives soon to follow.
Combined transport provider CargoBeamer has increased frequency on the Domodossola – Kaldenkirchen route and expanded its terminal northwest of Milan.
Based on an agreement from May 2022, Croatian rail freight carrier HŽ Cargo received the first out of a total of 17 modernised locomotives, Class 1141, from Končar.
Egyptian National Railways (ENR) have awarded a consortium of Orascom and Thales to renew track, signalling and telecommunications on the Cairo – Giza – Beni Suef
The September return to daily routines by most people in the railway industry can be tough and overwhelming. That is why we have prepared for you an easy-to-digest compilation of news from the passenger rail world:
The second largest freight terminal in Norway, the Bergen Nygårdstangen terminal, was opened after remodelling, allowing it to double its capacity and make it the first “green” terminal in Norway.
At the end of the summer months, companies started announcing new connections, both in intermodal and in unit train segments.
As part of the order for 20 modernised locomotives, ZSSK CARGO now has four locomotives in its fleet. One of them was manufactured in Croatia.
The financing is structured as a Green Loan, and EUROWAGON will lease the intermodal wagons to its customers, mainly in Western Europe.
California High-Speed Rail Authority is calling for requests for qualifications from rolling stock manufacturers to deliver six high-speed trains.
One of Europe's leading European wagon hire, rail logistics and traction companies, VTG, will get a new CEO from 1 October 2023.
The agreement between railway infrastructure companies will enable joint work development of passenger and freight rail transport between the countries in order to increase the export-import potential.
Heavy rains, floods and landslides. These are the causes of more railway lines being closed for traffic in Austria, France and Italy.
Fenniarail, one of few Finnish rail freight carriers, has its first Vectron locomotive produced in Siemens’s Munich-Allach facility. This locomotive is the first privately owned electric locomotive in Finland.
Higher revenues and profit, less cargo transported by the biggest Polish rail freight carrier in the first half of 2023.
At the beginning of August, the heaviest rainfall in a quarter of a century heavily impacted Norway. Mudslides, washout-out tracks and even collapsed bridges caused some of the vital lines to close for traffic.
As approved by the state of Ukraine, a railway line in the south of Moldova, which passes through Ukraine, will simplify border crossing procedures to make cargo transport through this line faster.
While the renovation of one section of the narrow-gauge railway line from the Kenyan border to the capital of Uganda draws to an end, another new section of railway rehabilitation was awarded to the Chinese contractor.
Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine's national railway company, is bolstering its international outreach. Following the recent establishment of a subsidiary in Poland, the company has named two new representatives to oversee its international endeavours.
The US passenger rail operator, Amtrak, has executed an option to order 10 additional Airo trainsets, raising the total number of Airo trainsets on order to 83.
Despite the summer silly season, the passenger rail market still delivers much news worth your attention. We are bringing it to you in a comprehensive summary.
As Italian media outlets report, the global shipping giant MSC continues its growth by acquisition strategy. Reports state that negotiations were ongoing for acquiring stakes in Italo and TX Logistik.
The support aims to keep single wagonload traffic on Hungarian railways. Although this form of rail freight is not profitable on a market basis, it is claimed to be helpful on a national economic level.
Swiss railways will be most developed between agglomerations; the Lötschberg base tunnel will get two tracks in its entire length.