NY invests in railfreight and port infrastructure 
The USD 111.1 million will fund nearly 40 projects to modernise freight lines, freight yards and port facilities to enhance the safety and resiliency of cargo corridors in New York state. It will also help advance New York's climate goals, as railfreight has proven to be one of... more
More connections over the Brenner Pass
Effective immediately, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has established a new link between Verona (Northern Italy) and the Duss terminal in Göttingen (Lower Saxony, Germany), with four round trips per week. On another newly created connection, RCG will initially operate four weekly... more
Eight EMDs for the Centro-Atlantica Railway
The Brazilian logistician and port, railway, and terminal operator VLI is acquiring eight locomotives from Progress Rail. The units (model EMD SD70ACe-BB) will transport cargo in the Southeast corridor of the Centro-Atlantica Railway which serves producing regions from states... more
Transit time reduced from 53 to 18 days
A new dry port has opened in Xi’an, China, and the first container train, having departed from the new Kazakhstan transport and logistics terminal in Xi’an, arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, last Monday, 11 March 2024, in transit through Kazakhstan along the Trans-Caspian... more
Volvo raises market share for e-HGVs to 47.2%
The commercial vehicle manufacturer sold 145,395 trucks worldwide in 2023 - more than ever before. The largest sales markets were the USA, Brazil, and the UK. Electric trucks are on the upswing, with Volvo delivering 1,977 e-vehicles worldwide last year, an increase of 256%... more
Price pressures and structural deficit
In 2023, SBB Cargo Switzerland improved its result by CHF 148 million to CHF -40 million compared to 2022. This is particularly due to the write-down made in the previous year (CHF –128 million). Traffic performance fell by 7.5% compared to 2022. The company attributed this... more
Queensland's first heavy-duty BEVs
The government in Queensland, Australia, has decided to give electric heavy vehicles with up to 8 t on the steer axle and 18.5 t on the drive axles access to a defined zero-emissions heavy vehicle road network. Queenland's first first heavy BEVs will operated by the forwarder... more
More security for container handlers
About 35% of the volume in the shipping containers is air with a gas mixture. These gaseous substances are mostly harmless, but there are some that can be highly harmful to our health. They travel with the packaged goods and can then be inhaled when the containers are opened.... more
Supermarket gets first of 151 ordered e-trucks
Iveco has delivered the first eDaily two battery truck to retailer Tesco for its home delivery fleet. A further 150 vehicles will join the retailer’s expanding EV fleet towards the end of 2024. This first eDaily (42S14E) enables zero-carbon deliveries via its modular battery... more
Betting on BETs
Australia is retrofitting a diesel-electric freight train with batteries, aiming to is to run heavy haulage and general freight routes using battery technology. In this AUD 9.4 million (EUR 5.7 million) project, Aurizon, Australia’s largest railfreight hauler, will develop and... more