Joining forces for barge services
NewsThe owners of two old-established port companies in Hamburg are to cooperate on inland navigation and related services...
DB Cargo on the Rhine
NewsIn a major market development, DB Cargo is to offer new services over Rotterdam and Antwerp. From December, new daily connections will link ...
Inland waterway system opening up in Ukraine
NewsThe Ukrainian Government is liberalising its inland waterway network. The objective is to encourage private investors to upgrade the country...
Central Port targets boxes
NewsAmerica’s Central Port (ACP), an entity of the state of Illinois that operates a port facility adjacent to Lock 27 on the Mississippi Rive...
Port of Cologne’s Imperial move
NewsGerman inland port company HGK Köln (Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln) is buying the European continental inland shipping branch of South Afr...
Hamburg states its case on barging
NewsHamburg reports a big increase in inland waterway traffic in 2019, but the port has declined to support a new Feeder Barge concept....
Lauterbourg terminal decision
NewsA Franco-German consortium will operate the Port of Strasbourg’s (PAS) trimodal container terminal in Lauterbourg, which it opened in July...
Modal shift for biomass wood
NewsInland port operator and logistics company RheinCargo GmbH & Co KG is supporting modal shift from road to water across a range of cargoes....
Cement moves on the water
NewsIn France, cement producer EQIOM, part of the CRH Group, has been piloting trial shipments of tank containers by barge and ‘last mile’ t...
New operator for Dobrá
NewsFollowing TransContainer’s decision to cease activities at the Slovakian inland container terminal in Dobrá with five years left on the l...
Remote reefer monitoring for Rhine barges
NewsIDENTEC SOLUTIONS is testing a Narrowband Internet of Things (NBIoT) version of its Reefer Runner solution for remote reefer monitoring for ...
Yangtze River cargo volumes hit new highs
NewsCargo moved on China’s Yangtze River hit another record in 2019 with almost 3.2 Bt of cargo and over 19M TEU of containerised traffic ship...
Paper on the water
NewsWholesale paper products distributor Igepa is planning a modal shift from road to inland navigation for around 4,000 inbound truck loads per...
Bayernhafen boost
NewsAndreas Scheuer, Germany’s federal minister for transport and digital infrastructure, has awarded Bayernhafen a grant of €13.6M. It will...
Belarusian push to the Mediterranean
NewsLandlocked Belarus has contracted local company BelTopEnergo to build a Dnieper River port hub with terminals for bulk, general cargo and co...