Improving the port's rail network 
In Germany, Duisport is currently evaluating options to install the Mag Rail technology in the port’s infrastructure. Mag Rail was developed by Nevomo and enables to expand the capacity and performance of existing rail lines and operate electric rail vehicles in currently... more
Czech construction firm gets Effi Shunter with ETCS
The construction company Subterra has become Czechia's first private operator of a CZ Loko Effi Shunter 1,000 locomotive equipped with the ETCS train control system. The company’s representatives recently took over the unit in Jihlava, Czechia. Subterra will use the modern... more
Investment needed to shift more semi-trailers
Standard vertical transhipment technologies (gantry cranes/reachstackers), in combination with containers, are becoming more competitive with road-only transport solutions over distances of around 1,000 km, a study has concluded. It added that most intermodal transport chains... more
Sun power on the roof to reduce emissions
Guernsey Post in the UK has implemented solar power on five of its larger vehicles with the photovoltaics provided by Trailar, a solar power solutions company from the UK. The solar vehicles include three 8.5 t Mitsubishi Fuso canter trucks, a 7.5 t Iveco Eurocargo unit and a... more
Enhancing a rail carrier’s hydrogen infrastructure
Atco, a Canadian corporation with investments in logistics, is constructing two hydrogen production and refuelling facilities in Alberta (Canada) for Canadian Pacific (CP). The hydrogen infrastructure at each CP site in Calgary and Edmonton will include a 1 MW electrolyser,... more
Autonomous trucking going ahead
Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) is set to offer new hub-to-hub autonomous transport solutions in the USA, and to this end will partner global logistics provider DHL Supply Chain as its first customer in the project. The solution is designed to serve shippers, carriers,... more
Changing its modal split 
The carrier ONE to make use of Metrans intermodal services. more
Mining company tests electric locomotives
Vale, a mining and logistics company based in Brazil, has received its second 100% electric and battery powered locomotive. Manufactured in China by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive, the unit will initially operate in the Ponta da Madeira Terminal's switchyard in Sao Luis. Its batteries... more
DB Schenker to sail on the fjord
Who would have thought that DB Schenker, regularly active on land and on rail, would be setting sails – will a fully electric vessel? The company says that it is planning the operation of a zero-emission coastal container feeder in Norway. The German group's cooperation partners... more
Transparent tracking of consignments
The general cargo cooperation 24plus is implementing a track and trace function from the Eikona Logistics Cloud in its cubit24 IT platform. The software provides the network partners with even more transparent information about the status of their consignments than before.... more