Batteries for heavy electric trucks 
Volvo Trucks is opening its first-ever battery assembly plant in Ghent, Belgium. The plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for the Swedish manufacturer's all-electric heavy trucks. Samsung SDI cells and modules will be assembled into battery packs tailor-made for Volvo... more
Big investments to double railfreight
FS Italiana is investing more than EUR 190 billion in sustainability projects over the next ten years. With the 2022-2031 business plan, the Italian railway group aims to ensure that infrastructure works are completed on schedule, to prioritise multimodal collective transport... more
Over 1.5 million refrigeration units sold
Transicold has achieved another industry milestone by surpassing 1.5 million container refrigeration units sold. The company introduced the industry’s first ‘picture-frame’ front wall container refrigeration unit in 1968 and has continued to innovate ever since. Transcold... more
French Hy Shunt project launched
French hydrogen specialist HDF Energy and the SNCF affiliate Captrain France have signed a partnership agreement for the development of hydrogen locomotives. As a first step, the partners are launching the Hy Shunt project: a diesel locomotive with a power of about 700 kW... more
Refurbishing non-sustainable locomotives
CZ Loko has won a tender to modernise more class 742 diesel locomotives for CD Cargo. The contract provides for the delivery of 25 locomotives and an option for five more. The class 742 diesel locomotives, built between 1977 and 1986, need to be modernised because they are no... more
Support for route planning
Germany’s federal office for goods transport (BAG) now regularly publishes map displays on its homepage showing forecasts of the number of vehicles liable to pay tolls on the federal motorway network for a typical weekday in the following months. On these maps, previously... more
Uinta Basin Railway project progresses
US regional freight railway operator Rio Grande Pacific Corporation (RGPC) has selected the companies to complete the final engineering and construction of the Uinta Basin Railway. The 137 km long common-carrier railway will provide the first-ever common-carrier railway... more
Rail tracks opened at Port of Larvik
Wood chips from the Norwegian timber corporation Bergene Holm in Amundrod near Larvik will now be transported by rail to Norske Skog’s mill in Halden. On Friday, 13 May, railway tracks at Larvik Port opened, reducing the number of trucks on the roads on the Larvik – Oslo –... more
7,000 eco vehicles for 225 cities
DPD plans to transport parcels to 25 of the largest towns and cities in UK with zero and low-emission vehicles by 2025. The programme aims to step up the company’s efforts to achieve pan-European targets based on the know-how and expertise gained from the first cities where... more
US short line railroad changes hands
Louisville & Indiana Railroad (LIRC), an Anacostia affiliate, has acquired the assets and operating rights of the former Southern Indiana Railway (SIND), a short line located in the Louisville metropolitan area, USA. Until 2020, SIND served customers along its 8.85 km of... more