ORR upholds tunnel appeal

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Following an appeal by EWS, the Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR) has directed the Infrastructure manager of HS1, formerly known as the Cha...

Short and sweet for intermodal rail?

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Road and port congestion in SE England has handed opportunities for intermodal rail over distances that conventionally are too short to comp...

DB playing the pipes of Pan-Europe

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The Port of Duisburg (Duisport), the world’s biggest inland port, has reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn’s intermodal business unit...

Sidelifters waiting in the wings

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Despite being often touted by their backers as having “enormous potential” self-loading container road trailers (usually called “sidel...

DB moves on EWS and Transfesa

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Confirming months of speculation, fuelled by their own joint statement some time ago that they were examining ways of “extending co-operat...

Unilog withdrawal sends message

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Last month Unilog, the last of the three intermodal aggregators set up when the Channel tunnel opened, ran its last train....

Liverpool paper tunnel

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It is only a month or so before Channel tunnel through rail services face the chop, according to EWS, because of the absence of a new chargi...

Sixth operator in France

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After EWS International, Véolia Transports (Connex Rail), SNCB Rail4Chem, and Europorte 2 (Eurotunnel), a sixth company has now obtained a ...

EWS enhances Soton service

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EWS has begun a programme of works to enhance the number of services and delivery of its intermodal rail operations over Southampton through...

Sidelifters – huge untapped potential?

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In some respects, the concept of using self-loading trailers (“sidelifters”) to handle containers is very highly developed. In New Zeala...

EWS/IBT team up on tanks

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UK rail freight operator EWS and powder tank manufacturer InBulk Technologies (IBT) have joined forces to promote IBT’s ISOVeyor tank cont...