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The agreement also includes the development of a rail freight terminal in Al Ruways Industrial City.
The inauguration ceremony took place at the beginning of December and was attended by the mayor of Nymburk, representatives of shareholders, suppliers and customers.
The new bridge that will carry direct rail services between Oxford and Cambridge was lifted into position over the route of HS2, the high-speed rail line under construction between London, Birmingham and the North.
New workshop of Railpool Lokservice GmbH & Co. KG is being built at the Hamburg Billbrook site, mainly due to the growing volume of rolling stock.
CBH Group has agreed with Progress Rail to acquire seven EMD standard gauge locomotives, more than doubling the co-operative’s standard-gauge locomotive fleet.
From 1 January 2023, the terminal Cologne North (TKN) of HGK Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG will be operated by a new company, the Hupac Group. This is the result of the tender initiated by HGK in June 2022, in which Hupac SA was awarded the contract in November 2022.
The freight and logistics sector in the North is critical to the UK economy given that more than 33% of goods enter through the Northern ports, 25% of GB freight starts in the North, and the same proportion of journeys end in the North. By 2050 it could be worth more than £30bn to the North’s economy and employ more than 500,000 people.
CFO Arnold Schiefer moves to the private sector in Upper Austria. The position of CFO of ÖBB-Holding AG will be publicly advertised in December.
DB is launching before Christmas Click & Collect service "Box - Die Abholstation" at 150 stations. This service allows station visitors, residents, and public transport users to pick up or return ordered goods and services at the station, regardless of delivery and opening times.
Freight rail usage and performance levels in the latest quarter have been affected by the railway industry strikes in July and August 2022.
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) has assigned DB's Management Board the task of examining and preparing the case for a potential sale of up to 100% of its shares in DB Schenker. Decisions as to the categorical initiation of a divestment process and the form any sale may take will be made separately at a later date.
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) broke the 1-million-tonne mark in grain transports from Ukraine in November.
One of the oldest businesses of FORWARDIS is the transport of hazardous products (especially yellow phosphor) in tank containers from Kazakhstan to Europe and the USA (via Rotterdam).
The DB initiative launched in the summer was alleged "a complete success".
Federal Railways of Kazakhstan (KTZ) and Stadler have signed three long-term contracts for the supply of 537 sleeper and couchette coaches, including a 20-year full-service contract.
The Board of Directors of A. P. Møller - Mærsk A/S announces planned CEO transition: Soren Skou retires as CEO, handing the baton to Vincent Clerc, who is appointed new CEO.
20 companies participated in the competition and the best was the combination of two participants – companies Fortior Capital from Ukraine and Teslar Trans from Estonia.
In January a new train service will operate five departures a week between Stockholm Norvik Port and the Eskilstuna Intermodal Terminal. This railway link will connect Stockholm Norvik to a larger railway network.
In view of the extraordinary Energy Council today, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) reiterates the need for low-carbon, energy-efficient rail to be supported if the EU is to achieve its climate and energy targets in 2030.
Regular and scheduled service will shorten the delivery time from China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan to Europe.
More freight shifting onto the rail and off the roads – especially in the European market, is currently the guiding principle. To achieve ambitious political goals, there is a need for adequate resources, rolling stock being one of the crucial ones.
The Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV) and Deutsche Bahn (DB) are jointly moving ahead with the planning for Digital Rail Germany. An existing financing agreement will be increased from around 1.7 billion to around 2.7 billion euros.
An initiative of 18 companies, led by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has kicked off a study into the possible establishment of a large-scale ammonia cracker, which will enable imports of 1 million tonnes of hydrogen per year for the decarbonization of industry and mobility.
Analysis of Polish freight as well as passenger rail transport.
Alstom and Air Products have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the deployment of hydrogen solutions in rail, including the necessary infrastructure in the Czech Republic.
Current Rail Cargo Group Board Member for Sales and Marketing will become the chief of the UAE company.
The agreement reached yesterday by the Council enabled the EU to push ahead with building a sustainable and smart trans-European transport network (TEN-T) that connects 424 major cities with ports, airports, and railway terminals.
Rail Cargo International Freight Forwarding in Shanghai will start from the beginning of 2023.
Hupac strengthens its network with a new connection between Antwerp and Duisburg.
It results from the UIRR study 'Roadmap to Zero-Carbon Combined Transport 2050' which was published at the European Intermodal Summit 2022 (EIS 2022).
duisport and VITRONIC implemented automatic detection of containers at Rivergate
Beacon, Stadler, and GB Railfreight have signed an agreement for the supply of 30 Class 99 bi-mode coco locomotives.
EBRD investment in the Western Balkans rail sector to reach €1 billion in 2022.
The electronic consignment note has been available in Germany since April this year - and the majority of logistics companies (77 percent) already use it. However, only one in twenty companies (5 percent) rely exclusively on the digital version of the delivery document and have abandoned the paper form altogether.
The value of the agreement agreed between PKP Cargo and PKP PLK amounts to PLN 683.6 million gross (PLN 555.8 million net). The freight carrier's management has undertaken to pay this amount to the railway infrastructure operator for, among other things, access to the tracks for journeys under the 2022/2023 timetable.
Hitachi Rail has signed two new contracts to equip digital cab signaling technology onboard trains operated by SNCF and Eurostar on French national and cross-border rail networks. The equipment to contribute for enabling passengers to more easily travel by train across European borders.
After the final failure of the collective bargaining negotiations on Sunday and the 24-hour warning strike by the vida trade union, train services on the ÖBB network will resume on Tuesday at the start of operations.
The first 25 newly built grain wagons were handed over to Rail Cargo Logistics GmbH one month ago, with a further 175 wagons to follow by the end of 2023.
It concerns design services for the construction of the new line through Kaunas Urban Node. All interested suppliers can submit their applications by 16 January 2023.
The social partners could not reach an agreement after more than 12 hours of intensive talks today.
The trade union vida has announced a warning strike for next Monday, from 00:00 to 24:00. In the event of a strike, all train services throughout Austria will have to be suspended.
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) has added Khazaen Dry port (KDP), part of Asyad Group, to its ‘Port of Call’ network offering business transportation, container terminal, and reefer container services.
The hydrogen fuel cell solution was developed by Alstom and ENGIE and would be used from 2025. The train consists of a hydrogen generator wagon system.
Concurrently, the company promises more rail transports through the duty-free corridor Port of Trieste - Dry Port Villach, investments in increasing waste transport by rail and new branches in China and Serbia.
Regarding the renewal of the sleepers originally identified as defective, DB has now remedied two-thirds of the resulting restrictions.
Wabtec Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire Super Metal, a supplier of automated vehicles and equipment solutions that support rail operations.
Together with the new Container Terminal Osnabrück (CTOS), TFG Transfracht is moving more goods from road to rail. The DB Cargo AG subsidiary is thus expanding its range of short-haul transports, so-called shortland feeders.
Unimot Group invests in rail transport logistics and announces terms and conditions of the purchase of shares of the company Olavion.
ČD Cargo confirms earlier information from RAILMARKET.com and announces new prices from the beginning of the next year.
These are the Hamburg-Berlin and Emmerich-Oberhausen corridors and are scheduled for reconstruction in 2025.