Bright future forecast for road haulage 
In spite of the predicted slowdown in economic growth, the German federal office for freight transport (BAG) expects the steady increase in freight traffic to continue until 2021. For the current year, the BAG predicts a 0.9% rise in freight volumes and a 1.2% growth in... more
New dump cars to operate in gold and copper mine
The Russian freight car manufacturer United Wagon Company (UWC) will supply the mining company Polymetal with 55 dump cars by the end of H1/2020. The batch of cars will be delivered to the Varvara plant for operation in Kazakhstan. Varvara, Polymetal’s first operation in... more
M&M expands in Serbia
Militzer & Münch (M&M) has founded a joint venture with the Serbian logistics company Invictus. With this move, the transport company that is headquartered in Switzerland intends to expand its existing network in the Balkans. The partners plan to develop the JV into... more
Japan – Europe over land in just 23 days
Nippon Express recently introduced "NEX Ocean-Solution China Land Bridge", a multimodal transport service from Japan to Europe that uses cross-border rail transport between China and Europe via Xiamen in China. This service combines marine transport from major... more
Heavy haul freight train runs by itself in the USA
New York Air Brake, a US subsidiary of the Knorr-Bremse Group, has deployed its on-board energy management system to test the automatic driving capabilities of a freight train in Colorado, USA. Driving on an 80 km long test track and with locomotive engineers riding along,... more
Turning assistant to become compulsory for long trucks
The turning assistant is to become compulsory in Germany for new long trucks as from 1.7.2020 and for all other trucks as from 1.7.2022. According to the German federal ministry of transport (BMVI), more routes are to be added to the authorised network. This means that long... more
New service links Italy to Hupac's European network
The Swiss intermodal operator Hupac has opened up north-east Italy for combined transport: the Pordenone terminal, managed by Hupac, is linked by daily connections to all major destinations in central-north Europe. The direct trains connect Pordenone (Italy) and Duisburg... more
More hinterland connections in China
With a new railway link from Chongqing in the southwest of China to the port of Qinzhou in the south of the country, cargo-partner covers 16 provinces in western and central China and thus reaches all the important production sites in the Chinese hinterland. The new rail... more
Germany and Poland bridge the gap
The new bridge over the Oder can now be planned: the two countries concerned, Germany and Poland, have recently concluded an agreement to build a new bridge between Küstrin-Kietz in Brandenburg (Germany) and Kostrzyn in Poland. The existing bridge, which was built before... more
Improved road access to the port of Felixstowe
The British international freight association (BIFA) has given a cautious welcome to the news that the UK government has confirmed a commitment by the previous administration to invest some GBP 25 billion in England’s road transport infrastructure. BIFA director general... more