UP to serve new car plant in Texas 
Volkswagen Group of America has chosen the US class I railroad to serve its recently opened car facility in Freeport, Texas (USA). Union Pacific (UP) will help VW distribute imported vehicles to 300 dealerships in the central and western USA. The port Freeport facility has... mehr
Hödlmayr acquires Laaers carriers
The Austria-based transport company is leasing Laers automobile carriers from Gatx Rail, with the first batch to be delivered by the end of 2024. Hödlmayr is Gatx’s first customer to use Laers automobile carriers, which bring advanced loading options and capacity to handle... mehr
Train to link Mexico and southeast of the USA
Starting in December, the transport company Schneider is introducing a new intermodal service to link markets in Mexico and Texas with Florida and Georgia with efficient border crossings. The train lane is a result of the recently announced connection between CSX and Canadian... mehr
Czech rail operator adds Vectrons to its fleet
Original: ORLEN Unipetrol Doprava, a leading Czech rail freight operator and a member of the refining and petrochemical group ORLEN Unipetrol, continues modernising its fleet. The group of seven existing Siemens Vectron MS locomotives, series 383, will be expanded to include... mehr
First electric tractor unit in Bern
The Swiss freight forwarder Direkt Transport has put its first fully electric truck into operation. The vehicle, a Renault Trucks E-Tech T 4x2, is also the first fully electric tractor unit to be in service in and around Bern. The company started its operations in 1997 with... mehr
Schöni continues to invest in biodiesel fleet
Manufacturer Scania has delivered four new trucks to Schöni, expanding the Swiss transport company’s green fleet. There are already 45 vehicles in use in Switzerland that run exclusively on biodiesel (B100), making up around 40% of the fleet. This biodiesel is produced from... mehr
Single-wagon transports in block train quality
DB Cargo has been shipping chemical products for the chemical group BASF in Germany and Europe for many years. Two years ago, the carrier introduced a special shuttle concept to connect the two plant sites in Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide. BASF has now extended the contract for... mehr
More rail connections for Felixstowe
GB Railfreight (GBRF) has started a service with five weekly roundtrips between the port of Felixstowe and Daventry in the UK. The new offer increases the number of destinations that are connected by rail from Felixstowe, GBRF said. The new train will remove up to 100 long... mehr
Cars travel by train
The Lithuanian carrier LTG Cargo has completed the first project shipment of Skoda Auto passenger cars from Czechia to Kaunas, Lithuania, entirely on standard gauge tracks. A train consisting of 22 double-deck car carrier wagons delivered 220 new passenger cars for the Baltic... mehr
E-Porter equipped with innovative cybersecurity
Piaggio Group presented its first electric Porter during the Ecomondo fair in Rimini, Italy, last week. This latest vehicle type extends the Italian manufacturer’s range of commercial vehicles with two new four-wheel electric models designed for the specific needs of intra-city... mehr