Train ferry plan a daydream?

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG has mandated the Management Board to draw up and prepare the sale of up to 100% of DB Schenker AG

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola globally, is switching to intermodal from trunk road haul in the UK, in a contract with Maritime Transport, with GB Railfreight as rail haulier

This high frequency rail link delivers a strategic answer to persistent requests for more multimodal capacity between Germany, Sweden and Finland, says the multimodal shortsea shipping company

In a statement last week, Transnet said it was confident that the agreement would help facilitate a binding and definitive agreement to resolve pending legal disputes, and thus free the way for the urgent delivery of electric locomotives to Transnet Freight Rail

The German government has decreed that energy feedstock be given rail capacity priority in view of the record low water levels on the river Rhine and other inland waterways, including priority over passenger trains

With low water levels on the Rhine forcing multimodal operators to make more use of rail, thus further exacerbating capacity constraints, the “Rastatt” call for more use to be made of left bank rail, largely through France, is re-echoed