Three trucks added to fleet 

Suga Rich, a big player in the surplus food reprocessing business, has added three new identical Volvo FM 500 6x2 trucks to its growing fleet. The new trucks will be used to deliver surplus food products to the company’s seven reprocessing mills located in UK. The trucks all... plus
Locomotive prototype to be trialled in late 2023 

In USA, Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and technology specialist ZTR have joined forces to build hybrid-electric locomotives. The locomotives will be built at UP’s North Little Rock, Arkansas, facility with the first prototype expected to be delivered in late 2023 and five... plus
Rail link Sohar – Abu Dhabi getting closer 

Oman Rail and Etihad Rail have signed an agreement to jointly establish the equally-owned Oman-Etihad Rail Company. It will hold an overall investment power of USD 3 billion to design, develop and operate a railway network connecting Sohar Port to the UAE national rail network.... plus
Two more hubs to expand operation 

US transport company J.B. Hunt Transport will offer quick access to outbound rail and highway transport after the introduction of a transload facilities in Seattle at the US West Coast and Laredo in Texas. Both new operations will enable J.B. Hunt to transfer international... plus
Testing a new rail route for containers 

Trans Container, Russian Railways (RZD) and Ulaanbaatar Railways (UBTZ) have organised the first railway shipment of containers from China to Russia via the Solovyevsk border-crossing point (Zabaikalsky Krai) on the Russian-Mongolian border. To date, this border-crossing... plus
New shuttle to link Gliwice with Pordenone 

Swiss combined transport specialist Hupac is offering new opportunities for climate-friendly road-rail transport between Italy and Poland. Next Monday, 10 October 2022, a direct shuttle train will start in Gliwice (Poland), in the centre of one of Europe's most important... plus
Sustainable fleet growing further 

US class I railway Union Pacific is investing in electric vehicles: Over the next six months, 67 electric vehicles – 50 Ford Lightning pickups and 17 Ford Mustang Mach-Es – will be delivered to select field locations across the railroad’s US network. Growing its... plus
Joining forces to augment intermodal services 

MSC and FS Group have signed a MoU to create synergies in logistics. The agreement will initially aim at checking the opportunities and mutual interest to implement a commercial and operational partnership project to develop intermodal services. FS’s Polo Logistica... plus
Transit time significantly shortened 

India and Iran have successfully concluded the first pilot of a fully digital intermodal TIR transport, the International Road Transport Union (IRU) reported. The container was released less than a day after arriving in Iran’s Bandar Abbas port, which would have otherwise taken... plus
Spanish fresh products now shipped to UK by rail 

Maersk subsidiary Sealand is launching a new rail product from Spain to UK. The new transport option is especially tailored for Spanish fresh produce, has flexible capacity and will initially offer three weekly departures from Valencia terminal to Barking terminal in East... plus