Budapest to get an intermodal terminal 
Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) recently signed a memorandum of cooperation with Xi'an Free Trade Port Construction and Operation (China) to create a joint intermodal cargo terminal in Budapest. The Hungarian capital is part of a comprehensive network for multimodal transports in... more
VR sells road logistics business
As a result of the transaction, the staff working in road logistics and customer contracts at VR, a Finnish logistics corporation, will be transferred to a newly established company. With the sale, VR strengthens its focus on its core businesses of transport, particularly... more
Approval for first converted e-truck in France
The 12 t Renault Trucks D was originally equipped with a combustion engine and was retrofitted into a battery-powered electric vehicle. The e-truck has now been leased for a period of several years to Extime, a company that operates duty-free stores at Paris Airport. The... more
SBB Cargo International now in France
With the newly founded SBB Cargo France, based in Huningue, Alsace, and its own safety certificate for the country which it received from the European Railway Agency on 21 November, SBB Cargo International is strengthening its position on the Rhine-Alpine corridor. As from the... more
A transport bridge between Turkey and Milan
The new service was jointly developed and introduced by intermodal operator Alpe Adria, ro-ro operator DFDS, SBB Cargo International and the port of Trieste. In Italy, the new train links the ro-ro terminal in Trieste with the Malpensa intermodal terminal in Sacconago in the... more
Dachser invests in more e-trucks
With the new battery-electric vehicles the logistics specialist Dachser has set up an emission-free delivery zone in the centre of Cologne, Germany, for all deliveries and pickups of non-refrigerated goods. Two Fuso e-canter electric trucks, each with a gross vehicle weight... more
Additional funding for eleven US short lines
The US state North Carolina is investing almost USD 13 million to improve rail infrastructure on eleven short line freight railroads and access routes to the state ports in Morehead City and Wilmington. The projects will modernise over 16 km of railroad corridor, improve 16... more
JML Christmas Truck on the road again from Monday
From next Monday, 25 November, Janina Martig Logistics and Smyths Toys will once again be bringing Christmas magic to the roads. Starting in Lucerne, the team of Janina Martig, who was voted “Most Beautiful Trucker in the World” in 2013 and founded her own transport company... more
Bertschi opens intermodal terminal in Belgium
The Swiss specialist for intermodal chemical logistics has started operations at the newly completed Antwerp Zomerweg Terminal (AZT) in Belgium. The facility will focus on the stowage of dangerous goods (DG) and non-DG products destined for transport in tank containers and... more
Rhein Cargo to deliver 9,000 pipes for pipeline
Rhein Cargo has been contracted as the logistics partner for the creation of a forest-lake landscape on the site of the disused coal mines in Hambach and Garzweiler (Germany). A 45 km long pipeline composed of 9,120 pipes is being built to fill the future bodies of water.... more