Jubilee year ends with record performance 
By consistently expanding its product portfolio and improving its services, TFG Transfracht, Germany, was able to hold its own in 2019 despite difficult market conditions. The sea port hinterland specialist even managed to top the 1 million teu mark in 2019, the year in which it... more
Siberian rail operator orders additional fleet of cars
Russian freight car manufacturer United Wagon Company (UWC) will deliver a batch of freight cars running on 25 t axle load bogies to the Sibirsky Krai transport company. Thirty model 12-9853 gondola cars with unloading hatches and five model 11-6874 box cars will be shipped to... more
Hydrogen powered fuel cell electric trucks on the move
There is no one-size-fits-all-universal solution for the electrification of heavy commercial vehicles. One of the technology options that manufacturer Scania has explored with the Norwegian wholesaler ASKO is a fuel cell electric truck powered by hydrogen gas. This venture... more
Two Russian hauliers link up
Globaltruck, a Russian FTL-trucking company, has signed a long-term contract with GTD, a logistic firm also based in Russia. The contract implies that Globaltruck’s fleet will serve GTD’s main trunk delivery routes for the next three years. The agreement defines a tariff... more
Gothenburg celebrates all-time record for railfreight
Container freight from the whole of Sweden is being increasingly channelled to the port of Gothenburg by rail. In total, 456,000 teu were transported through the Swedish port by this mode of transport in 2019. This represents an increase by 14% within a year and is the... more
New locomotives to increase capacity by 20%
Transmashholding (TMH) has launched its new Class 3TE25K2M 3-section mainline freight diesel locomotives with the delivering of the first batch of twelve new locomotives to the Russian locomotive depot in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The Class 3TE25K2M mainline freight diesel... more
Light swap body improves carriage of heavy coils
Move Intermodal, Belgium, has added 100 Kaessbohrer coil swap body vehicles to its fleet. The light coil swap body K. SWAU CC with a length of 13.7 m was designed and produced by Kässborer in corporation with its customer Move Intermodal to increase the efficiency of coil... more
“Deeply rooted“ 
There aren’t many people in the Suisse Romande who do not know PESA. The Lausanne Chavornay-based company is set to expand its forwarding, customs clearance and warehousing services. Christian Doepgen spoke to director Thierry Dornier. more
Acquisition of eco-friendly shunting locomotives on track
German freight operator DB Cargo is ordering the first 50 locomotives from Toshiba and plans to lease another 50 locomotives. Preparations for assembling the locomotives start in 2021 at DB Cargo's maintenance depot in Rostock, Germany. The 50 new hybrid locomotives will... more
New block train runs between China and Russia
Russia’s Rail Cargo Logistics has started to ferry containers from Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province in eastern China, through Mongolia to the Vorsino terminal in the Kaluga region in Russia. The first test train with 44 40-foot containers recently completed a successful... more