TSR still falling short
NewsThe Trans Siberian Railway has never fulfilled its promise as a serious contender in the Far East-Europe container trade, but could this be ...
TransContainer thinking big
NewsRussian rail intermodal operator Transcontainer is planning to invest more than US$420M in 2012 and 2013...
Summa strengthens its FESCO hand
NewsSumma's purchase of FESCO is expected to be completed on 15 June, the day of FESCO’s AGM...
FESCO ups stake in TransContainer
NewsRussia’s FESCO Transportation Group has increased its stake in TransContainer (TC) from 12.5% to 21.1%, just short of a “blocking” sha...
Fast train transit across Russia
NewsLast month Transcontainer, the Russian Railways’ (RZD) affiliate, shipped a container train from the Russian Far East to Moscow in just se...
TransContainer on the up
NewsRussia’s leading intermodal container transport and integrated logistics company, TransContainer, the principal container subsidiary of Ru...
TransContainer in Kazakhstan move
NewsTransContainer, Russia’s leading rail intermodal company in which (following flotation) Russian Railways has a 50% plus one share, has acq...
Russian rail containers set to grow
News“The economic recovery is well underway and world output levels have improved notably. In April, the IMF’s World Economic Outlook projec...
TransContainer planning IPO
NewsRussia’s leading intermodal container transport and integrated logistics company, TransContainer, the principal container subsidiary of Ru...
Routes in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basins
NewsCounterintuitively, the global economic crisis has revived several rail development projects in the Transcaucasus and Central Asia....
Sawn timber takes to the box
NewsIn the face of the global economic crisis, which has had a big impact on Russia’s economy and freight transport sector, domestic transport...
Russian Railways boosts Trans-Sib
NewsOn 14 March a new experimental “accelerated” container train left the railway station of Nakhodka-Vostochny in the Russian Far East for ...
Zabaikalsk reopens
NewsTransContainer, the intermodal daughter of Russian Railways and Russia’s leading rail-based container transport operator, has opened its r...
Transcontainer targets Rostov
NewsTranscontainer, the intermodal daughter of Russian Railways (RZD) recently acquired a 100% stake in Western Port (ZP), a facility on the lef...
Box terminal for Sillamäe
NewsThe Estonian port of Sillamäe has started work on a new 0.5M TEU/year container terminal, which should be completed in 2012. The port’s m...