Six seconds on the Dutch railway in 2020 
The Dutch infrastructure manager Prorail has finalised the planning for its timetable for the year 2020, effective from 15 December 2019. One innovation is a new method for distributing capacity with a system that enables to arrange transports every six seconds. Previously... more
Logwin participates in Marco Polo finance network
LBBW and Commerzbank have carried out another trade transaction between Voith and KSB SE via the Marco Polo trade finance network built on R3’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform Corda. This time, besides the two companies involved, logistics provider Logwin AG was... more
PKP Cargo to publish its H1/2019 results
PKP Cargo will publish the results of Q1/2019 on 22 August 2019. It remains to be seen whether the Polish group will be able to maintain the record ebitda of PLN 900 million (EUR 210 million) it achieved in 2018. Over the whole year of 2018, PKP Cargo carried 121.9 million t of... more
Expanding rail service between Maasvlakte II and Venlo
APM Terminals Maasvlakte II’s new rail service between its Rotterdam terminal (the Netherlands) and the logistics hub Venlo on the Dutch-German border is proving popular. Following the success of the initial five-times-per-week service, plans are already in place to scale up the... more
Two long trucks instead of three conventional vehicles
In Czechia, Dachser deploys two long trucks for its daily service between the subsidiaries in Ostrava and Brno. One long truck can accommodate two trailers with room for 104 pallets. By using the two trucks, the company increases the capacity on this connection by 40%. At the... more
Swiss intermodal operator prepares for digitalisation
While new railway infrastructures such as the Gotthard Base Tunnel will offer many opportunities to further develop railfreight services, the intermodal industry also calls for digitalisation and better ways to handle big data. Therefore, Switzerland-based transport operator... more
Cologne bans large trucks from the city centre
As from Thursday, 22 August 2019, trucks weighing more than 7.5 t will be banned from the inner city of Cologne (Germany) and from parts of the suburbs of Deutz and Mülheim. With this prohibition, the city aims to remove heavy traffic from its downtown area and improve air... more
Trying out regular TIR transports in Central Asia
The ministries of transport of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China have joined forces to assess regular TIR transits along a key Central Asian trade corridor. A caravan of six trucks – two from each nation involved – set off last week from Termez, Uzbekistan, heading for transit... more
New IT solution for Swiss carrier
Swiss rail services are efficient and reliable – just like Swiss freight transport: to plan, dispatch and deploy trains and staff, SBB Cargo uses the integrated standard solution IVU.rail from IT specialist IVU Traffic Technologies. The Swiss Federal Railways subsidiary is now... more
First UK gas supplier to use Bio-LNG trucks
LPG provider Flogas Britain has become the first UK gas supplier to operate Bio-LNG powered Volvo trucks. The new trucks are part of the company’s 2040 vision to build a lower carbon future in the UK. The two FMs are powered by Volvo’s G13C460 LNG engines, which develop 460... more