The European Union is sending a strong signal that it intends to improve service standards and efficiency at ports to spread traffic more evenly across the European waterfront and ease congestion.
Europe
20 May 2013
Romania pulled the partial privatization of the state-owned rail company after potential investors, including a US short line operator, failed to pre-qualify for the bidding process.
13 May 2013
MacAndrews, part of CMA CGM, has launched a refrigerated train service in Spain between Murcia and the Port of Bilbao.
05 May 2013
European intermodal company Metrans has opened a second hub terminal for containers in the Czech Republic at Česká Třebová, 180 km (about 112 miles) east of Prague.
29 Apr 2013
VTG Aktiengesellschaft, a wagon hire and rail logistics company in Europe, and Kuehne + Nagel, a logistics business, have signed a letter of intent for a merger of parts of their rail logistics activities...
22 Apr 2013
TCB Railways has reached a monthly transportation capacity of 17,000 20-foot-equivalent units between the Port of Barcelona and...
19 Apr 2013
Work has started on the first phase a £250 million (about US$380.8 million) program to improve performance and capacity on the Stafford, U.K., section of Europe’s West Coast Main Line.
29 Mar 2013
SCNB Logistics Group has sold its stakes in H&S Container Line and Haeger & Schmidt International, as well as its majority stake in RKE NV, to Felbermayr Holding, with retroactive effect as of Jan. 1, 2013.
26 Mar 2013
Globaltrans’ revenue surged 22 percent in 2012, but profit dipped 2 percent as the Russian rail freight operator sharply increased borrowing to finance acquisitions that boosted its share of the fast-growing domestic cargo market.
22 Mar 2013
In April, MacAndrews will set up a refrigerated train service linking Murcia with Balboa in Spain, in order to reinforce its current European 45-foot container reefer multimodal service.
01 Mar 2013
Hungary has unveiled plans to build a 70-mile double-track railroad crossing the river Danube to exploit the nation’s geographical location to handle freight moving between eastern and western Europe.
19 Feb 2013
France and India have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen technical cooperation in the railways sector.
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