New lines and transports announced: Europe and the US

New lines and transports announced: Europe and the US
© Contship Italia Group

Every week, new rail transports and new rail routes are announced across the world. Railmarket News is bringing you a summary of interesting ones that caught our attention over the recent period.


Waste from Italy to the Netherlands

© Main Trail Logistics
© Main Trail Logistics

By the time Rome builds its own incineration unit in 2026, one of the solutions for the problematic handling of waste from Italy is the export to countries that can utilise it for energy purposes and the generation of electricity and heat. Transport of such commodity can be performed by train, in covered wagons. In the second week of May, Main Trail Logistics announced that the first such train had arrived from Rome to Amsterdam. These trains are scheduled to arrive every week.

New slabs transport in Italy

As Ferrovie.it reports, the first trains transporting steel slabs left from Bellavista to Sommacampagna on 9 May 2023. This service, provided by Compagnia Ferroviaria Italiana (CFI), is an alternative to the short sea shipping service, currently short in capacities. Trains are thus a solution to this transfer, usually done by sea. Type R wagons were used for the service.

New Trieste – Milan intermodal service

© Contship Italia Group
© Contship Italia Group

Hannibal, the multimodal transport operator of the Contship Italia Group, launched a news service between Milan and Trieste on 17 May 2023. It connects the group’s rail hub Milan Melzo with the HHLA PLT terminal in Trieste, where 60% of traffic from/to Turkey flows. The open rail system for both semitrailers and containers was launched with three weekly services, and the company plans to expand to a daily service by the end of 2023. The traction is provided by Oceanogate, another company belonging to the Contship Italia Group.

US: BNSF connects Texas with Colorado with a new intermodal service

© BNSF 
© BNSF 

Beginning on 2 June 2023, BNSF will launch a new intermodal service connecting Barbours Cut Container Terminal at the Port of Houston with Dallas/Fort Worth (Tue and Thu) and Denver (Fri). BNSF counts on the growing importance of the Port of Houston, which handled a record number of TEUs in 2022. With a 7% market share, the port is Nr.5 in imports and Nr.3 in exports. In this port alone, imports from the transpacific grew by almost 26% in 2022, while exports on transatlantic naval routes grew by more than 20% in the same period.

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