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Category: Freight and Terminal Forum 2019

Fully automated rail terminals: how far away?

At the moment, full rail terminal automation does not exist in Europe. But this is to change, according to Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC). “In the next 5 to 10 years, we expect to see several inland terminals with automated processes”, said Nils Kemme. Kemme is Director Simulation at HPC. At the conference Improving Rail Terminal… Read more ›

Polish city of Łódź to become rail freight hub

PKP Cargo is planning to establish a rail freight hub in the centre of Poland, in the city of Łódź. It is to form the centre of freight transport in the country, which has seen traffic volumes rise exponentially since the revival of the New Silk Road. The freight division of the Polish PKP Group… Read more ›

Russia eyes distribution centres on EU border

Russia is looking for new, modern distribution centres just at the border with Europe. In this way, it wants to facilitate the large cargo volumes between Europe and Asia, while at the same time be able to quickly distribute smaller volumes. This was explained by RZD Logistics, one of the main rail freight operators in… Read more ›

Google Glasses to check containers at Wiencont

The Austrian hinterland terminal Wiencont will test Google Classes this year to check incoming containers. Normally this work is done manually by taking pictures of all the elements that need to be registered. It is one of the innovations it embraces in becoming a fully digitalised facility. Harald Jony, managing director at WienCont Container Terminal… Read more ›

Dutch terminal Coevorden considers rail connection to China

After Tilburg, Amsterdam and Venlo, the Dutch city of Coevorden may be added to the railway network connecting the Netherlands to China. The terminal on the Dutch-German border is looking into a new railway service to various Chinese destinations. The product is called C2C, which stands for Coevorden to China. “We want to organise combined… Read more ›

‘Terminal strategy is key, but almost absent in Europe’

“At the end of the day, improving rail terminal efficiency is a question of being competitive with the entire logistics chain”, said Ralf Charley Schultze, president of the International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR). He will be chairman of the day at the conference Improving Rail Terminal Efficiency, held on 28 March in Utrecht,… Read more ›

Digital tool to align terminal and railway traffic in Port of Antwerp

Alignment between terminal planning and traffic management is sometimes hard to find in the rail freight industry. Thanks to new technologies, this is about to change, at least in the Port of Antwerp. The Rail Traffic System is to bring all parties together in one digital platform. “The Rail Traffic System (RTS) is a web… Read more ›

New rail terminal puts non-cranable trailers on track

Trailers are traditionally transported by road, but this is about to change. A terminal for the transport of non-cranable trailers by rail is in the pipeline in the Netherlands. The concept should bring about a revolution in the freight industry, the developers say. Trailers have long been elements of road transport, with the exception of the… Read more ›

Driverless wagon ready to hit the track in the Netherlands

Autonomous single wagons that access whatever train path is accessible: that is the future of rail freight. These wagons will make rail as flexible as road, believes Paul van Bers, Innovation Project Manager at Container shift2rail. The wagons are already there, but some challenges remain. Van Bers will present this innovation at the Freight and… Read more ›