Kombiverkehr: From Munich to Trieste, five times a week
The successful route connecting Bavarian Munich with the Italian coastal town of Trieste got a boost. The transport of trailers, swap bodies and containers on Kombiverkehr’s trains will now be possible five times a week, as the company announced additional departures. From Munich, it offers additional connections to Duisburg, Hannover, Hamburg, or Leipzig.
MSC & Innofreight: New container round trips between Kapfenberg and Trieste
The cooperation of many partners led to a new containerised connection between the Austrian Kapfenberg and Trieste in northern Italy. It is planned that trains will run three times a week, creating a transport loop of raw materials northbound, and finished refractory products of RHI Magnesita southbound. Wagons for the transport are provided by Innofreight (2x40 ft InnoWaggons), containers by MSC sea freight, transloading by Montan Terminal Kapfenberg and traction by ecco-rail.
Rail Cargo Group: Two new connections between Villach and Italy
Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is still a strong player in single wagonload traffic and it is expanding its network of cross-European connections named TransFER. The newest additions to this network will allow customers to use RCG wagonload traffic between Villach and Treviso in the north, as well as Frosinone just south of Rome.
Hupac: Direct service Warsaw - Rotterdam
Hupac has announced that from 2 May 2023, it will launch a new direct connection between the Warsaw Brwinow terminal and Rotterdam CLdN. From there, ongoing short sea connections enable the export and import of cargo from/to the UK, Ireland, and Portugal. The shuttle service will be provided two times a week.
VR Transpoint starts large wood volumes transport to the new Metsä Group bioproduct factory
Finnish rail freight operator, VR Transpoint, launched the first train of raw wood from Rovaniemi to Kemi, where Metsä Group is building its new bioproduct factory. With the investment o 2.02 billion EUR, this mill will process 7.6 million tonnes of wood annually. When the factory is fully operational in the third quarter of 2023, the aim is to maximise rail transport and to reach 8-10 trains per week. Each train will pull a load of around 2,500 tonnes, and the first train departed from Rovaniemi on 21 April 2023. VR Transpoint uses Siemens Mobility's Vectron locomotives (Class Sr3) for these trips, equipped with a diesel power module for shunting. For additional needs, newly-delivered Dr19 diesel high-cab locomotives made by Stadler in Valencia will be used. At the same time, the new factory in Kemi will require to dedicate 400 wagons for shipments to this new mill.
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