Times are tough for Novatrans

The Swiss-based UIRR company will run TKN from 1 January 2023, following a competitive tender organised by the trimodal port authority, HGK Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG; new Hupac and Novatrans services over Port of Antwerp-Bruges

The debt-laden French railways group is to sell its wagons and tank containers leasing arm for around €3.2B

Hupac Intermodal is to start shipping semitrailers on the Spanish network between Antwerp Combinant terminal and the RENFE El Morrot terminal in Barcelona

Greenmodal Transport is set to introduce new connections linking the Port of Dunkirk with southern France and northern Italy, through a new company in which the port has a stake, Dunkerque Green Solutions

A second intermodal rail service using the Modalohr horizontal transfer system for road trailers has been inaugurated by VIIA over Calais, this time linking the port with the Italian market, at Turin

Europe’s first freight train to use IoT, allowing digitalisation of operations, was the winner of ERCI’s “Coup de Cœur” innovation award at the InnoTrans 2018 trade show in Berlin