2,500 vehicles order from UK 
The trucks, ordered by the Consortium Purchasing Group, will be delivered to Culina Group, WS Group and A.W. Jenkinson Group. The contract is one of Scania’s biggest single European deals and the largest battery electric truck order to be completed over one calendar year.... more
Plans for a new rail terminal near Moscow
Transcontainer has founded a new company to build and operate a container terminal in the Domodedovo in the south of the Moscow region. The Usady Container Terminal will have a capacity of 424,000 teu per year. After the facility is put into operation, a cargo consolidation... more
Choosing the best pallet size
The Pall-Ex Group subsidiary Fortec Distribution Network in UK has extended its product portfolio. After reviewing its list of products, the group decided to introduce the Euro Pallet Base range and the Parcel Pallet. The Euro Pallet Base will include five new products. The... more
Gotthard Base Tunnel still closed
Bad news for freight traffic in Switzerland: The Gotthard Base Tunnel will remain closed until further notice. Actually, it was planned to open the line for single-track train traffic yesterday, Tuesday, 16 August. After the derailment of a goods train in the tunnel due to a... more
Swedish haulier receives 74 t electric trucks
More and more hauliers are now starting to invest in electric trucks, including HGVs. Mattson Akeri in Gothenburg, Sweden, is one of them. The company has bought three heavy electric Volvo FH trucks and over the past few weeks has been testing one of these vehicles in... more
APM sees railfreight on track for record volumes
APM Terminals reports worldwide record loadings for railfreight: in India for example, the port of Pipavav handled 206 trains and nearly 50,000 containers in July, the highest number this year so far, pulling significantly ahead of its previous loading record of 157 double stack... more
Expanding intermodal capacity in UK
US manufacturer Greenbrier has delivered the last of 150 wagons to leasing company Porterbrook in UK, which has ordered the batch for GB Railfreight. The UK carrier will use the new rolling stock for the movement of construction materials for High Speed 2 from the Peak District... more
Four times more vehicles moved by rail
Train transport continues at full speed in Spain’s Port of Valencia: In H1/2023 more than 87 trains per week travelled to and from the port, compared to 83 in the same period in 2022, bringing the total number of trains in H1/2023 up to 2,180. The number of containers... more
All-inclusive rental offers for e-trucks
Renault Trucks has created a new rental offer specially designed for SMEs in Switzerland’s transport sector. During a minimum rental period of four months, interested companies can test the deployment of electric vehicles without obligation and gain experience. The rental... more
Order to extend locomotive fleet to 100 Vectrons
The French-based rolling stock leasing company Akiem has commissioned an additional 15 Vectron AC and Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility. The order was placed as part of a framework agreement for the purchase of locomotives that was signed in December 2021. Locomotives... more