UIRR notes strong growth in semi-trailer consignments
NewsConsignments of semi-trailers grew 3.5 times faster than the total growth in rail/road combined transport shipments in Europe in 2020, accor...
European combined transport steady in 2019
NewsThe UIRR has released its latest annual report (2019-20), reporting intra-European figures for the last full calendar year...
HHLA simplifies intermodal bookings with “Modility”
NewsHamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (has come up with an initiative to develop a new booking portal for intermodal transport together with 11 pa...
UIRR and RFG sign MoU
NewsThe International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR) and the UK Rail Freight Group have announced a new collaboration to further ...
UIRR: The European combined transport sector “achieved outstanding growth in 2017”
NewsRail-road combined transport in Europe grew by 5.48% in shipments and by 8.7% in tonne-km terms, according to the 2017-18 report of the UIRR...
Hupac steady in 2014
NewsLast year Swiss-based UIRR company Hupac transported 660,109 road shipments (approx. 1.32M TEU) by rail. While the core transalpine business...
Hupac posts 1.7% traffic increase
NewsSwiss intermodal transport operator Hupac achieved a 1.7% increase in transports to 656,877 road consignments...
Road legislation proposal to harm intermodality?
NewsA number of European transport associations in the road-rail, rail and inland waterways sector have issued a common statement on vehicle wei...
Kombiverkehr expands in Rostock
NewsGermany’s Kombiverkehr, part of DB Schenker Rail and Europe’s biggest UIRR company, has announced a major expansion programme in the Ger...
Swiss get tunnel vision
NewsThe state-of-the-art freight corridor via Gotthard makes up a major part of the operational requirement for combined traffic, says Hupac....
UIRR backs lo-lo against horizontal techniques
NewsThe UIRR has backed traditional vertical means of transferring semi-trailers between rail and road against the CargoBeamer and Modalohr syst...
Modal shift moves up the agenda
NewsThe Sarkozy government has an ambitious plan to transfer road freight to the “triumvirate” of other modes - sea, rail and inland waterwa...
Mega-trucks versus rail freight
NewsThe various EU-level rail freight and rail community organisations (UIC, CER, EIM, UIRR, UNIFE and ERFA) have published a new brochure in Pa...
Take out the bottlenecks
NewsCapacity reserves of the rail network in Europe are inadequate to sustain growth in rail-road combined transport, according to a recently pu...