EU bans Russian and Belarusian trucks and vessels 
In light of Russia’s continuing war of aggression against Ukraine, the European Council has adopted a fifth package of sanctions against Russia. The package will prevent Russian vessels and trucks from accessing the EU. In detail, the package includes, inter alia, a ban on... more
Canada: big investments in green transports
Canada’s government is planning to establish a growth fund to attract substantial private sector investment to reduce emissions. The budget includes funds for a number of projects particularly for road transport, which accounts for 20% of country’s greenhouse gas emissions.... more
European railfreight players push digitalisation
Nineteen railfreight companies have signed a partnership agreement to further promote digitisation and data sharing in the sector within the framework of the growth programme “Rail Connected”. The foundation for the partnership will be laid over the next two years, under the... more
First driverless trains to run by 2023
SNCF has joined forces with industrial partners to develop driverless trains. Two consortiums have been formed for this purpose, one for passenger and the other for freight traffic. For Fret SNCF’s freight section, the French rail company is partnering with Alstom, Altran,... more
New hub to solve capacity problems
The general cargo cooperation Online Systemlogistik (OSL) will start operating a western hub at the facility of its system partner Rottbeck in Bottrop, Germany, this summer. Goods handling is to start on 1 August 2022 at the latest; 52 gates and 6,000 sqm of logistics space... more
Trucks older than five years to be banned
Saudi Arabia's public transport authority is introducing a ban on importing trucks that are more than five years old. The regulation will take effect on 5 May 2022. It will apply to all heavy transport vehicles whose total weight exceeds 3.5 t. The ban includes locomotives,... more
Growing demand for services to Scandinavia
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is further expanding its Transfer network northwards: from now on, the company will operate three weekly roundtrips for wagonload traffic between Linz (Austria), Scandinavia and Wels (Austria). Since the beginning of the year, RCG has been shipping... more
Abu Dhabi to enhance freight transport safety
The state-owned Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) in Abu Dhabi has begun implementing the new provisions of the freight transport regulation in the Abu Dhabi Emirate. All all services related to land-based freight transport activities will now be available online on the... more
Joint effort to hydrogenise railfreight in Europe
Alstom and Engie have signed a partnership agreement to offer the railfreight sector a way to decarbonise mainline operations by replacing diesel-powered locomotives with hydrogen versions. Alstom is designing a hydrogen solution based on a high-power fuel cell system that... more
Germany gets centre for self-driving trucks
Torc Robotics, a specialist for SAE level 4 self-driving vehicle software for heavy-duty vehicles and a subsidiary of Daimler Truck in North America, is opening a technology and software development centre in Stuttgart. Here, the company will support the ongoing development of... more