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DB Schenker sale gets go-ahead

News19 Dec 2022

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 bottler in Britain switches to rail

News17 Oct 2022

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola globally, is switching to intermodal from trunk road hau...

Samskip introduces Duisburg-Rostock rail service

News17 Oct 2022

This high frequency rail link delivers a strategic answer to persistent requests for more multimodal capacity between Germany, Sweden and Fi...

Transnet, Alstom reach deal on cancelled locomotives contract

News14 Oct 2022

In a statement last week, Transnet said it was confident that the agreement would help facilitate a binding and definitive agreement to reso...

Berlin emergency decree prioritises energy rail transports

News26 Aug 2022

The German government has decreed that energy feedstock be given rail capacity priority in view of the record low water levels on the river ...

Swiss rail industry again calls for freight alternatives on Rhine left bank

News22 Aug 2022

With low water levels on the Rhine forcing multimodal operators to make more use of rail, thus further exacerbating capacity constraints, th...

Etihad Rail receives first locos and multi-purpose cars

News19 Aug 2022

The developer and operator of the UAE national rail network has received its first locomotives and wagons at the ports of Zayed and Al Musaf...

Hupac – “Infrastructure bottlenecks slow down combined transport”

News8 Aug 2022

Despite lively demand, Hupac’s traffic H1 2022 stagnated at the previous year’s level, with an increase of just 1%. Construction activit...

Enter DX Intermodal – new service provider for data exchange in combined transport

News22 Jul 2022

Newly-formed DX Intermodal, based in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany, operates a data hub connecting all players in European combined transport...

Freightliner Class 66 loco converted to run on hydrogen

News11 May 2022

Clean Air power, a specialist sustainability business in the UK, has delivered a key government-backed project to help cut rail freight dies...

Test automobiles train from Barcelona to Austria

News4 May 2022

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group recently organised the first test train for the transport logistics specialist between Barcelona and St Valentin/Schwe...

Samskip adds multimodal capacity in Germany-Sweden corridor

News28 Apr 2022

TX Logistik is laying on new rail capacity between Duisburg and Katrineholm, following a new agreement with Samskip...

Finland to boost rail transport of lumber

News1 Apr 2022

The Ministry of Transport and Communications has submitted a proposal supplementing a government proposal on amending the Rail Transport Act...

Sale of DB Schenker being drawn up

News3 Dec 2021

DB Schenker is selling its full load and intermodal rail business units to DB Cargo. This is part of a step to privatise other segments of t...

High speed rail for Suez Canal

News4 Sep 2021

A consortium led by Siemens Mobility has won a US$4.5B contract from the Egyptian government to build a 660 kms long electrified railway lin...

UK passenger rail franchise system to end

News21 Sep 2020

Ministers today (21st September) have ended passenger rail franchising after 24 years as the first step in bringing Britain’s fragmented n...

DB Schenker sale gets go-ahead

Coca Cola bottler in Britain switches to rail

Samskip introduces Duisburg-Rostock rail service

Transnet, Alstom reach deal on cancelled locomotives contract

Berlin emergency decree prioritises energy rail transports

Swiss rail industry again calls for freight alternatives on Rhine left bank

Etihad Rail receives first locos and multi-purpose cars

Hupac – “Infrastructure bottlenecks slow down combined transport”

Enter DX Intermodal – new service provider for data exchange in combined transport

Freightliner Class 66 loco converted to run on hydrogen

Test automobiles train from Barcelona to Austria

Samskip adds multimodal capacity in Germany-Sweden corridor

Finland to boost rail transport of lumber

Sale of DB Schenker being drawn up

High speed rail for Suez Canal

UK passenger rail franchise system to end

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Captain’s body found, four missing after ship sank near Taiwan

Konecranes reports higher profit, port solutions H1 order intake down 40%

NWSA calls for bids for Terminal 5 refrigerated container electrical upgrades

DP World Fremantle implements new weigh-in-motion system

Vessel detained in Haifa, seafarers abandoned in Yemen

DB Schenker sale gets go-ahead

Coca Cola bottler in Britain switches to rail

Samskip introduces Duisburg-Rostock rail service

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Captain’s body found, four missing after ship sank near Taiwan

Konecranes reports higher profit, port solutions H1 order intake down 40%

NWSA calls for bids for Terminal 5 refrigerated container electrical upgrades

DP World Fremantle implements new weigh-in-motion system

Vessel detained in Haifa, seafarers abandoned in Yemen

Fire breaks out on Maersk container ship, one crew member dead

Cape Town Container Terminal takes delivery of 15 new terminal tractors

Fire on Maersk Frankfurt nearly out

Valenciaport’s container traffic up 14% in H1

Tanker capsizes near Manila claiming one life, cargo ship sinks off coast Taiwan