Special transport for e-cars due to Covid-19 
Russian Railways Logistics (RZDL) has shipped twelve electric vehicles from China to Chelyabinsk in the Urals, Russia, for manufacturer Electrokars Rus. The cargo travelled from Khorgos (China) to Chelyabinsk via the Kazakh checkpoint at the Nur Zholy car border crossing.... more
Sneltransport to run test hydrogen truck for DHL
DHL Express has become the first entity in the Deutsche Post DHL Group to test hydrogen-fueled trucks for long-haul runs. Together with its customer Apple, DHL is running a pilot project for the vehicle, as part of the Interreg NW Europe programme called H2-Share. The truck,... more
Transloading service opens at crucial time
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc, a North American supply chain solutions provider, has launched a new transloading service to assist shippers in the New York metro area. The option will be managed through a recently-expanded facility in Jersey City NJ that will provide port... more
Construction giant investing in autonomous vehicles
Volvo and Holcim Switzerland have entered into a collaboration agreement to jointly test and further develop autonomous electric haulers for limestone quarries. The battery-electric units now being tested mark a groundbreaking step in the industry. Not only are they quieter... more
Canadian rail corridor reopens after storm damage
The railway operator Canadian Pacific (CP) has reopened a railway line running between Kamloops and Vancouver in the province of British Columbia. Crews worked around the clock after a storm on 14 November in which almost 200 mm of rain fell in just two days in some... more
Covid-19's impact on the transport industry
In Switzerland, road haulage proved to be the most robust. The trucks' transport performance totalled 16.99 billion net tonne-kilometres in 2020, 0.9% less than in 2021. Railfreight's transport performance, on the other hand, decreased by 2.7% to 9.8 billion net tonnes, the... more
Investment in hinterland networks in Poland
Contargo, a hinterland logistics network for container transport, has founded a national subsidiary in Poland. Contargo Intermodal Poland offers repositioning of empty containers, container transports per rail from Poland to other European countries and container trucking to sea... more
Over 1,000 CNG trucks for European operations
Iveco has signed another deal with Amazon: the USA-headquartered online dealer recently placed an order for 1,064 trucks. Amazon has already taken delivery of the first 216 Iveco s-way CNG trucks to be operated by its partners in Europe. Deliveries of the remaining 848 units are... more
Rail-to-truck transfer capacity added
The Carolina Connector (CCX) intermodal terminal near Raleigh in North Carolina, USA, is open for business. Located on a mainline of the US class I railway CSX, the new terminal adds rail-to-truck transfer capacity for domestic and international container shipments. CCX... more
Locomotives for Kazakhstan
At a ceremony held last week, Russian manufacturer Sinara Transport Machines (STM) handed over the first batch of 2ES7 Black Granite freight two-section electric locomotives to Silkway Transit, Kazakhstan’s first private railway carrier. The first three locomotives have already... more