Watco takes over rail asset from Dow 
The USA-headquartered transportation service company will acquire rail infrastructure assets and related equipment at six major North American sites. Watco will provide select rail services at Dow’s flagship locations in Freeport and Seadrift, Texas; St. Charles and Plaquemine,... more
Direct link from Belgium to Turkey via Romania
H.Essers and Rail Cargo Austria have joined forces to launch a new and direct rail link between Romania and Turkey. The cargo rail connection had been in the pipeline for some time, but the roll-out has now been accelerated due to the Covid-19 crisis. H.Essers already... more
100,000 pallets in one week
EV Cargo’s Palletforce in UK has just set new weekly and daily records for network volumes after successfully implementing a range of measures and member support to protect and grow its business amidst the Covid-19 challenges. In the last week in June Palletforce volumes hit... more
Increasing safety and capacity on rail network
Canadian National Railways (CN) plans to invest over CAD 10 million (EUR 6.54 million) across the province in eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, in 2020. The investments will focus on the replacement of rail and ties, rebuilding road crossing surfaces as well as maintenance work on... more
Transfesa renews its container fleet
Since the end of June, 122 new containers have been in full circulation in two intermodal corridors for cross-border traffic of Ford’s production components to UK and Germany. The first corridor leads from Ford Valencia to Ford’s automotive factory located in Dagenham,... more
Self-driving truck in terminal
A specially developed fully automated truck is currently being tested in real-life logistics operations at the DUSS terminal in Ulm, Germany. The vehicle is deployed in the container depot of DB Intermodal and the DUSS-Terminal. During the test runs a safety driver is in the... more
New train connects Serbia and China
UTLC-ERA, a subsidiary of Russian Railways (RZD), has introduced a new route between Belgrade in Serbia and Wuhan in China. It is the 150th transit container service to run on a 1,520 mm broad gauge track. The train transits across the territories of Belarus, Russia and... more
Gridlock on road network
In Switzerland, the number of hours spent in traffic jams rose sharply last year. According to statistics published by the Swiss confederation, 30,230 congestion hours were reported in 2019, 10% more than ever before. Transport services providers must thus calculate much... more
Silk Road captured on film
Kopf + Lübben Cargo Services has been offering transport services on the Silk Road since the beginning of regular rail traffic between China and Europe. With the company's support, artist Paul Kolling and filmmaker Jack Wolf have created an exhibition on this link between the... more
Kornwestheim added to rail network
European Gateway Services (EGS) has added Kornwestheim in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg to its network. The train connection is an extension of the synchromodal services to and from this region. In southern Germany, EGS also offers connections with Nuremberg and... more