The China-Europe Railway Express line is 9.908 km long and trains have started to run on it according to a fixed timetable.
According to the railway leasing Porterbrook company, the wagons, which are fitted with track-friendly bogies, have been designed to optimize the tare weight, volume capacity, and payload with the shortest wagon length over buffers for the bulk material it will transport. The box structure is fabricated from high-strength steel.
The new facility is expected to take the equivalent of 300,000 lorry movements off local roads.
This is the result of unofficial information that was presented during the 18th annual ČD Cargo business conference.
This procedure is intended to help the operation of energy companies by preventing potential shortages of a specific commodity from threatening their continued operation.
The company’s first intermodal test train has been put into operation to leave for the Port of Trieste.
The Egyptian government has awarded the contract to operate the country's first high-speed rail network to Deutsche Bahn and the Egyptian company Elsewedy Electric (EE). The three parties signed the agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. The contract, which has an initial term of 15 years, is worth over a billion euros.
After several years of design and planning, DB Cargo UK’s Class 66 locomotive (66039) has now been delivered to Electro-Motive Diesel’s engineering workshop in Doncaster where the technological transformation will take place.
The volume of Operail's international freight traffic has been reduced by half in the first nine months of this year.
The Swiss Federal Council wants to further develop freight transport in view of energy and climate policy objectives and the importance of rail transport for Switzerland's security of supply. It has therefore decided to submit two options for consultation.
Because of the war of aggression against Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia, VTG AG has decided to discontinue its business activities in Russia and divest its business units.
A new connecting railway at the Port of Freudenau now enables Bau Beton to transfer 60,000 to 80,000 tonnes of gravel and binder per year from road to rail.
The ATO system is designed to improve the efficiency, punctuality, and competitiveness of rail freight transport.
ČD – Telematika retrofitted the onboard unit of the European Train Control System ETCS to the last of a total of 78 locomotives of series 163 and 363 of the carrier ČD Cargo and thus completed the contract.
A total of 60 tank wagons will be delivered to ČD Cargo.
Telegram channel belzhd_live published specific figures on the amount of ammunition exchanged between the countries since February 2022, when the war in Ukraine began.
Rail freight falls only in seven Member States but increases in the remaining ones. This information comes from data on railway transport which have been published by Eurostat.
The key strategic hub will connect to the Barcelona-France high-speed line and will be an important part of the Mediterranean Corridor.
New freight wagons and lighter detachable containers provide better efficiency for freight trains.
By switching to rail, w&p Zement has been able to reduce the number of trucks on the road by 3,200 vehicles per year since 2019, reducing the environmental burden.