Spitzke Logistik buys ten locomotives 
Manufacturer Vossloh will deliver the ordered DE 18 diesel locomotives to the railfreight company in several stages, beginning in H2/2025. Spitzke Logistik is a subsidiary of the German railway infrastructure company Spitzke in Berlin. The new traction units with centre cabs... more
Groupage network expands in Italy
The area around Rimini is home to various industries and many export-oriented businesses serving the furniture factories in the provinces of Fano and Pesar. In this growing local economy on Italy’s Adriatic coast, the groupage network Dachser and Fercam Italia has opened a... more
Optimised wagons for waste transports
Two prototype wagons for scrap logistics are soon to put into operaton at tubes and pipes manufacturer Voestalpine in Linz, Austria. The new wagons are standard Transant platform wagons that have been optimised with a special body for scrap transport and were developed... more
Testing refuse collection by e-truck
Pöppel recently received a new battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 300 with a waste collection body from the manufacturer Terberg HS. Pöppel is a family-owned haulier specialising in waste management and city cleaning with a focus on sustainability. It is based in Regensburg... more
Craiss expands international services
The transport and logistics expert has introduced a weekly truck service from Hungary via Germany to Portugal for a German steel producer. The route is over 6,000 km long and connects several locations. The trucks leave Hungary every Friday. The first driver transports the... more
Lagos-Kano rail line reopens for traffic
On 6 June 2024, freight services resumed along the old narrow gauge stretch on the south-north corridor in Nigeria after the construction works to rehabilitate the track had been completed. The 1,300 km long line connects the Nigerian capital with the commercial hub of Kano in... more
Two more Gamas for cross-border transports
Original: The company is receiving additional Gama Marathon 111Ed-20 electric locomotives, including the Ed30 version equipped with an auxiliary diesel engine, all supplied by Rail Capital Partners (RCP). On the occasion of the next contract, the President of CTL Logistics,... more
Copper shifted from road to rail
Copper coils are sensitive to moisture and susceptible to rust. They are therefore loaded onto trucks directly at Schwermetall Halbzeugwerk’s plant in Stolberg (Germany). In order to shift the cargo to the climate-friendly railways in future, the coil manufacturer has joined... more
New trucks in the port of Hamburg
At the beginning of June, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) launched the first electrically powered trucks at its own freight forwarder Container-Transport-Dienst (CTD). CTD will use the new e-trucks initially for container transfers in the port of Hamburg and carry out... more
Trident and Neptune to help protect supply chain
Canadian National Railway (CN) has added two new firefighting trains and two more railcars to its fire mitigation fleet. These specialised units, the Trident and the Neptune trains, will join CN’s existing firefighting train, Poseidon. Together, these three trains will... more