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US short line rail road now in service 
Missouri Eastern Railroad (MER), a wholly owned subsidiary of Jaguar Transport Holdings, began rail operations on 1 March 2022. It owns 70 km of track located in the western portion of the St. Louis metropolitan area and has leasehold rights to 15 km of adjacent track owned by... mehr
New member for UK's ADR network
M&H Logistics has joined Hazchem Network, the UK’s only pallet network for the carriage of dangerous goods by road (ADR). The Scottish haulier has taken over the areas previously covered by Depot 37 Burns Express after it decided to leave the network. M&H Logistics... mehr
IRS to focus on "innovating rail"
The 11th International Railway Summit (IRS), which will be organised in association with the International Union of Railways (UIC), will take place in Berlin (Germany) on 30 May – 1 June 2022. The topic will be ‘Innovating rail for people, planet and prosperity’. The... mehr
Attracting Eurasian transit container transportation
Intermodal operator Trans Container has signed a three-party agreement on cooperation with two Chinese forwarders to make transit container transportation from China to Europe more attractive and competitive. The agreement was signed on the Chinese side by Shandong Jitie... mehr
Many trucks en route in Ukraine
Besides citizens and refugees, many truck drivers are also trapped in Ukraine. The flow of vital goods, including food, water and medicine, is being severely affected because of Putin's war in Ukraine. Humanitarian conditions are dire in many places, the international Road... mehr
Rail/road transports stopped from and to Russia
Based on the EU’s decision to impose sanctions on the Russian Federation and other reports from the seaports of Hamburg and Rotterdam on refusing to handle container shipments to and from Russia in these ports, Metrans has stopped accepting and transporting cargo destined for or... mehr
US class I railway planning big investments
BNSF is investing USD 3.55 billion in its infrastructure. USD 2.71 billion will be spent to maintain and modernise the core network in USA. The projects include 22,530 km of track surfacing and/or undercutting work and the replacement of 530 km of rail and 2.7 million rail ties.... mehr
Screw coupling to be phased out
A prototype of the digital automatic coupler (DAC) was recently presented in Vienna, Austria. The system is to be gradually phased in on Europe’s rail networks between 2026 and 2030 and is expected to give a huge boost to the planned energy transition and railfreight transport.... mehr