Keeping it short and sweet
NewsShort sea shipping is high on the political agenda in Europe. The Dutch, who currently hold the EU’s rotating presidency, want to prioriti...
HPH into Poland
NewsHutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has announced that it has entered into agreements to acquire a majority stake in privately-owned Wolny Obszar ...
Lake Vanern-Duisburg: a quart in a pint pot
NewsSwedish shipping line RWS Lines AB has developed a new ro-ro ferry able to carry trailers between the country’s biggest lake, Lake Vänern...
High speed river cat
NewsA new, high speed, cargo catamaran could significantly reduce the number of truck trips on Europe’s roads, according to FP6UK, the body wh...
PINE on the water
NewsEuropean inland waterways freight transport is forecast to grow by 35 per cent from now to 2020, from 124 mtkms to 166 mtkms, according to t...
A tale of two G’cities
NewsThere is a consensus that the foreign trade of Poland, the biggest of the new EU members, will experience strong growth in containerisation....
Three lining up in France
NewsThree rail freight operators are looking for licences in France under EU open access rules - Rail4Chem, DLC and Connex-Cargo. They are all i...
Barents initiative
NewsA Barents Region Ports Association is to be set up by ports from Northern Russia and Scandinavia....
Enter the Danube Commutor?
NewsRo-ro services on the Danube are not new as such, but they could become more important as further enlargement of the EU will increase pressu...
New Brussels focus on hazardous cargo security
NewsThe European Union has drafted a new set of requirements aimed at enhancing the security of dangerous goods shipments and forwarded them to ...
Light the white touch paper?
NewsThe European Commission's "white paper" on transport up to 2010 (WorldCargo News, September 2001, p13) has generally gone down well in combi...
EU funding for Set�bal terminal?
NewsThe EU's regional development fund (Feder) will almost certainly provide backing for the new Set�bal multimodal terminal in Portugal, whic...
Refrigerants under renewed pressure
NewsDespite concerted international efforts through the Montreal Protocol to phase out the production and consumption of ozone depleting substan...
First class Post?
NewsThe news that DPAG is bidding US$1.3 bill (E1.5 bill) to increase its stake in DHL from 25 to 75 per cent (with the balance retained by Luft...
Waterbox initiative
NewsA Dutch waterways organisation, NPRC (Nederlands Particuliere Rijnvaart Centrale) has come up with a new project, called Waterbox, aimed at ...