Tracción Rail wins 25-year contract for Salamanca terminal
The concession includes an additional investment of around EUR 5m to expand bulk storage capacity by 36,000 m³, increasing total capacity to 54,000 m³.
The concession includes an additional investment of around EUR 5m to expand bulk storage capacity by 36,000 m³, increasing total capacity to 54,000 m³.
The service connects Sydney to Minto and Melbourne to Ettamogah, Griffith and Bomen.
The figures were presented during the EU–Ukraine Business Summit 2026, held in Brussels on 22–23 April.
CargoBeamer has taken over operations at the Kaldenkirchen terminal, where it is expanding capacity and preparing Germany’s first site with its automated handling technology.
The new freight link connects central Poland with the Netherlands and supports the transport of P400 semi-trailers and containers.
The intermodal service operates three weekly round trips with P400 profile capacity and a gross train weight of 1,700 tonnes.
The terminal covers 152,500 m² within the Puerta Centro – Ciudad del Transporte logistics area in the Henares Corridor.
The total investment value is estimated at more than PLN 369m (around EUR 86m).
The project, valued at EUR 33.5m (PLN 145m), is scheduled for completion in mid-2026 and is located on the former KWK Makoszowy and JSW Koks industrial site.
The integrated schedule utilizes the Lyon PEH hub to link Mediterranean ports with the North Sea-Baltic corridor via 18 weekly round trips.
Formerly known as the Blue Ridge Connector, the $134 million facility provides a direct rail link to the Port of Savannah, targeting a regional market of more than 330 manufacturers across the poultry, heavy equipment, and forest products sectors.
Six major rail freight operators have signed an agreement to launch "Track Together," a mutual-aid operational scheme designed to reduce congestion on the Port Railway Line in Rotterdam.
The service, operated by Dania Connect, runs with a transit time of approximately five hours and currently offers one departure per week, with plans to increase to three weekly departures.
The company indicated that volumes from several regional firms would be consolidated to build regular services.
The operator said the terminal is designed to increase capacity and improve reliability for services between Perth, Kalgoorlie and the east coast.
The preferred option carries a base budget of around EUR 62m.
The terminal is located adjacent to several logistics companies and serves combined transport flows in the Berlin region.
The service will operate two round trips per week, with one outbound and one return connection, and can increase to three round trips in the short term.
The ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven handled 65.3 million tonnes of seaborne cargo in 2025, up 5.4% year on year, with container traffic in Bremerhaven driving the increase. Throughput reached 4.9 million TEU, a rise of more than 10%.
The transaction concerns the Arad South intermodal terminal, located in western Romania near the Hungarian border.