Three more electric locomotives for lease 
Northrail, a lessor and asset manager for locomotives and rail wagons for the German Paribus group, has ordered three more Siemens Smartron locomotives, bringing the number of such vehicles in its portfolio up to 14. The newly ordered electric locomotives will be available... more
French carrier promotes road-to-rail shift
Fret SNCF will use the Gurobi Optimizer as the engine of its new, end-to-end freight train planning solution. With this integrated, automated planning platform, the French railfreight carrier will be able to maximise resource utilisation, minimise costs and improve service... more
Bosch adds parking facility near Paris
Bosch Secure Truck Parking, the digital booking platform for truck parking spaces, is expanding its footprint in Europe. After opening its first French site in Calais, it has now added another facility in Tournan en Brie near Paris, where freight forwarders can digitally reserve... more
Melnik re-joins Koper’s intermodal network
In cooperation with PKP Cargo International, Maersk has started a new rail connection between Port of Koper in Slovenia and the terminal in Melnik, about 40 km north of Prague in Czechia. The service re-opens opportunities, especially for the Bohemian part of Czechia, to... more
RTB Cargo adds four more locomotives
RTB Cargo is leasing four Euro 9000 locomotives from European Loc Pool. The multi-system locomotives with a diesel power unit of 1.9 MW and an electric power unit of 9 MW under the overhead line are ideal for traffic on the European corridors that are used by RTB Cargo. They... more
E-trucks for Swiss retail chain
In Switzerland, Migros launched an online supermarket with home deliveries in September 2018, as a pilot project in cooperation with the city of Berne. The offer was so successful that myMigros has meanwhile been gradually extended to cover the catchment areas of Thun,... more
Hövelmann continues digitalisation programme
Hövelmann Logistik, which is headquartered in Rees in the Lower Rhine region in Germany, has now ordered 150 next-generation CarCubes from Trimble Transport & Logistics. The on-board computers are to replace the existing Trimble devices. All in all, the specialist for... more
Swiss carrier to be climate neutral by 2030
SBB Cargo has been expanding its intermodal portfolio since 2012. In 2019, the Swiss railfreight company carried 118,831 containers and semi trailers with a total of 98,743 wagons on its intermodal network. This corresponds to a payload of around 1.5 million net tonnes. With... more
16 trains on the Alps route
Starting off this November, Cargo Beamer has increased the frequency on its route between Kaldenkirchen in Germany and Domodossola in Italy. A total of four new intermodal trains, two each for Germany and Italy, were added to the schedule. The trains depart from... more
Improved rail access to Upper Midwest markets
The US railroad Union Pacific is opening its Twin Cities intermodal terminal and launching services to Minneapolis in January 2021. The new offer will feature domestic intermodal links between the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, expanding the reach to key Upper Midwestern... more