US rail company expands in Illinois 
Short line railroad Elwood Joliet & Southern Railroad (EJSR), a newly formed subsidiary of Watco, has acquired a former Railway & Industrial Services (RIS) property in Crest Hill, Illinois, and leased an adjoining rail line that serves RIS and several other local... plus
Rail transport in Russia becomes cheaper
Russian Railways (RZD) has introduced decreasing coefficients for tariffs on a number of items. The move is designed to attract additional volumes of freight to rail. The discounts regard the transportation of ferrous metals, scrap metal, pipes, chemical products and containers,... plus
Austrian block train remains on track
More than twelve years ago, the ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) and Gebrüder Weiss launched what has become a successful operation: the Orange Combi Cargo (OCC). The block train has since been operating on a daily basis in Austria between Bludenz and Vienna. Both contracting... plus
Additional rail capacity for Canada’s industry
Cando Rail Services has opened the Cando Sturgeon Terminal in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada. The terminal provides additional rail capacity to Alberta’s industy and expands Cando’s national network. With the completion of Phase 1, Cando Sturgeon Terminal can store up to 1,900... plus
New container trains to run between Siberia and China
KTZ Express, Russian Railways, Transcontainer and Allians Trans Torg launched the first container train from Kemerovo-Sortirovochnoe station in western Siberia to China. The new service allows customers to send cargo from the railway terminal in the close proximity to the... plus
No more locomotive change at the border
Slovenian company Primol-Rail, which belongs to the Polish PKP Cargo International Group, has completed the journey of the first container trains through the modernised crossing in Hodos between Slovenia and Hungary using its own multisystem Vectron locomotives. The... plus
Faire de nécéssité vertu (numérique) 
Pas seulement les supply chains, les formations connaissent elles aussi une nouvelle ère en raison des mesures liées à la pandémie. En mars, Brabender Solutions d’Unterägeri a été concernée: une formation de collaborateurs de Neska de toute l’Allemagne est devenue victime du... plus
Rail speeds up seafood transport
Freight operator Cargonet in Norway will open a weekly connection directly from Narvik (Norway) to Malmö (Sweden) on 23 October. With this first direct route the seafood can arrive up to one day earlier at customers across Europe, compared with the existing route through Oslo... plus
Sofia warehouse with direct rail access
cargo-partner continues to expand its service portfolio in its iLogistics centre in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. To this end, the company has just opened a rail terminal on the warehouse premises. With rail access directly beside the warehouse, goods can be easily unloaded from... plus
Palletised network expands in Iberia
Pall-Ex Iberia recently completed work on its brand new 12,000 sqm hub facility, which is strategically located in San Fernando de Henares. The state-of-the-art building will replace its current warehouse in Madrid and give the business additional capacity to develop its... plus