Rail Cargo Group (RCG) and Captrain Italia have launched a new cross-border freight service for transporting industrial salt from Ebensee in Austria to Domodossola in Italy.
The 1,300-tonne figure refers to the train’s net capacity in the new flow.
The delivery began in late September in Mülheim an der Ruhr and includes both fleet wagons and newly built units.
To enable this operation, the old Westbahn route has been reactivated and extended with a roughly 400-metre connecting track leading directly to a new loading facility.
The operation involved round-trip movements between Basel and Domat/Ems.
Aurizon has entered into a three-year agreement with SCT Logistics to increase the frequency of its containerised freight services between Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.
By closing the gap between processing and production, the new gypsum cycle introduces an additional long-distance rail movement into the building-materials supply chain and supports the shift from waste disposal to material reuse in the Austrian construction sector.
The 530-kilometre route will be operated using Class 88 electro-diesel locomotives, capable of running under electric power where available.
The company states that three coil trains will run every two weeks toward customer sites in Eastern Europe.
The service links the BILK terminal in Budapest with the Romanian hub of Curtici.
This trial is a preparatory phase for a planned commercial service connecting the port of Valencia in Spain to Entroncamento in Portugal, expected to start before the end of 2025.
The service is aimed at transporting intermodal units and other types of cargo.
Dolomitas, a company with over six decades of experience in dolomite production, supplies washed crushed dolomite stone, fines, and mixed fractions from local sources.
The service offers a cross-border connection along the Atlantic axis, which until now lacked rail motorway access.
Rail Freight Forward (RFF) has launched a campaign opposing proposed EU regulations that would allow cross-border movement of longer and heavier vehicles (LHVs).
A rail shipment of Russian wheat has been delivered to Armenia using a transit route through Azerbaijan and Georgia.
The newly organised continental division, operating under the KONTImodal brand, focuses on stable terminal-to-terminal rail services across Germany and Europe.
From January to October alone, 2,790 trains were operated, marking a 49% year-on-year increase. On average, a train departed every 2.6 hours.
The new arrangement is intended to reduce the number of truck journeys into Zurich by approximately 58,000 annually.
The forecasted increase follows a period of low growth between 2021 and 2023 and reflects ongoing adjustments in global trade flows.