40 containers on the rail route from China to Italy 
A new rail journey began when the first ever regular westbound train to directly link China with Italy left the Chinese city of Chengdu last Saturday (26 January), carrying 40 containers. It is due to arrive at Contship Italia’s Rail Hub Milano terminal in 18 days’ time. The... more
SBB Cargo and DB Cargo continue their cooperation
Ahead of time, SBB Cargo and DB Cargo have jointly extended their alpine transit contract for a further three years. The contract will come into effect at the change of timetable at the end of the year and will govern cross-border traffic from Mannheim, Singen or Basel to... more
USA: new rail hub to serve west Texas mine
Vista Proppants and Logistics has started to operate its new transload terminal in Texas to facilitate the enhanced delivery of frac sand into the Midland and Delaware Basins of the Permian Basin. The terminal, which is located near Vista’s West Texas mine in Monahans... more
UK intermodal operator plans new maintenance facility
UK-based intermodal operator Freightliner is planning to build a state-of-the-art rolling stock maintenance and fuelling facility at its existing freight yard in Ipswich. After evaluating various sites throughout the UK, Ipswich was chosen due to its strategic positioning close... more
Regular container train connecting Yiwu and Moscow
Fesco, a Russian transport group, has launched a weekly container train from Yiwu, a city in China's Zhejiang province, to Moscow, via Mongolia, thus expanding inland services between China and Russia. The first train with imported cargo recently completed the trip in 14... more
Doubling rail shuttle frequency
Multi Modal Rail is stepping up its train frequencies on the Rotterdam - Weil am Rhein (Germany) corridor. From February, the company’s rail shuttle will run twice a week between Weil am Rhein, near Basel in the /Swiss/French/German border triangle and the Dutch port. Multi... more
Gefco and ONCF conveying new cars for Peugeot
Gefco has delivered the first two rail car transporters to the newly opened PSA plant in Kenitra (Morocco). Another 45 such units will be handed over by the end of 2019. The French car maker, Peugeot, uses the car transporters to convey its new cars by rail from its Kenitra... more
Facelift for Estonian locomotive fleet
The Czech manufacturer CZ Loko and the Estonian national carrier Operail (formerly EVR Cargo) have inked an agreement for upgrading four more C30 locomotives to class C30-M. The contract will increase the number of upgraded locomotives of that class from three to seven. The... more
800 boxes per month on Southampton -Cardiff route
Freight Systems Express Wales (FSEW) has signed an important new contract with UK-based Freightliner to secure additional capacity on the latter’s regular container rail services. FSEW has already been working with Freightliner, the UK’s largest intermodal freight transporter,... more
More trains on the Basel – Antwerp corridor
The Swiss railfreight operator, Schweizerzug, is raising the number of services and capacity between Frenkendorf, near Basel (Switzerland) and the port of Antwerp (Belgium) from three to four round trips per week, from 2 February 2019. The company’s trains run to the Antwerp... more