Rail freight customers of the port of Gdansk may have noticed it: a dispute between deepsea terminal DCT and operator PCC Intermodal. The disagreement is about the additional for rail freight operators. According to PCC, this fee is illegitimate and discourages the use of rail.
The current macroeconomic situation differs from a normal slowdown cycle, as it is reinforced by a virus crisis. It is not just an economic recession, but an economic crisis ánd a pandemic crisis. That will certainly result in a double dip, says Ekaterina Kozyreva of the Infrastructure Economics Centre. In February, the UIC, a worldwide… Read more ›
This year’s edition of the RailFreight Summit Poland, to be held in Poznan, has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The event will take place on 1, 2 and 3 September 2020. Originally, it was on the agenda for 13, 14 and 15 May 2020. “We keep track of the developments around the COVID-19… Read more ›
The joint venture of the Rail Baltica project RB Rail AS, on behalf of the Ministry of Transport of Latvia, has concluded two contracts for the remaining two sections of the Rail Baltica main line in Latvia. It involves the design and design supervision of the line. It is the last step before actual construction… Read more ›
Despite the reduction of bulk volume, intermodal transportation on the Polish railway network is growing. In 2019 the overall rail freight traffic in the country decreased by 5.5 per cent while the intermodal sector set growth of 14.7 per cent. At the same time, the share of intermodal transportation in general rail freight traffic increased… Read more ›
With the help of the Broad Gauge Line, Poland has launched a new transit route from China to other parts of Europe. Sławków, the railway’s western terminal, has a convenient location and other attractive options, argues Dariusz Sikora from PKP LHS, the company that operates the Broad Gauge Line. After two successful trains from Xi’an… Read more ›
As many factories in China have returned to normal operations after the recent COVID-19 outbreak, first signs of capacity shortages for both air and sea freight are starting to emerge. To address growing demand in challenging times, RTSB Schweiz AG and Schweizerzug AG have formed an alliance to offer a new rail freight service for… Read more ›
In Poland the expenditure on the development of transport infrastructure as well as intermodal hubs increased significantly between 2000 and 2020. Did this development contribute to a shift to rail? And is a shift from road to rail possible at all? Jana Pieriegud from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics will answer these questions at… Read more ›
Poznan is growing as a rail freight hub. Recently, a state-of-the art terminal was opened, where cranable as well as non-cranable trailers can be loaded on trains in all directions. This means thousand of trailers off the road, onto rail. A terminal is not just a facility where cargo is loaded onto rails, and a… Read more ›
CLIP and CFL multimodal announced the launch of a new railway line between Swarzędz, next to the Polish hub of Poznan and Bettembourg-Dudelange in Luxembourg by end of 2019. The service will be open to containers, craneable semi-trailers as well as non-craneable semi-trailers thanks to the Lohr Railway System technology. The train will start with… Read more ›
