International rail

Russian antitrust authorities raided offices and seized documents Wednesday.

India wants to switch from a point-to-point transportation system to a hub-and-spoke model.

The port of Antwerp has gained a new rail service to Germany.

The new services should save shippers cost and transit time compared with ocean shipping.

“Through these alliances, these groups ... could maintain almost unchanged the status quo that existed before the liberalization of the rail freight sector in Spain.”

Brazil’s government for years now has been concessioning out infrastructure to boost investment and foster modernization.

Revenue dipped 4 percent.

The container trains from Bangalore inland container depot leave every Friday to reach Cochin by Sunday.

Eurotunnel Group more than doubled its earnings in 2016.

More containerization in Russia would help cut transportation costs in the country.

The hike RZD instituted will further increase the price differential between rail and road.

A unified customs clearance system along the New Silk Road from China to Europe can address the major pain points on the route, a World Economic Forum director believes.

Shippers moving goods from northeastern China to international markets are turning to Russian ports.

Greece has closed on the sale of its state-owned freight and passenger rail company Trainose.

Chennai Port Trust is seeking approval to build a dry port so it can ease chronic truck congestion and remain competitive.

Chennai’s rail share in the first three fiscal quarters through the end of December slipped compared with 2015.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is struggling to convince shippers to shift freight to intermodal rail from trucks.

Food shippers have taken a particular interest in using the rail services made possible by the new line at Port Bronka.

Shippers have asked Russia’s competition regulator to investigate what they describe as a system of bribes and close business ties that results in some shippers receiving better treatment than others.

Authorities at India Port Rail Company Ltd., which is tasked with developing last-mile rail projects connecting major ports, met this week to take stock of the progress on investments under way.

Poor service by the Russian rail monopoly RZD is dampening shipper enthusiasm for Asia-Europe rail services.

Rail-road tariff equalization put in place this month is spurring Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers to use intermodal trains rather than trucking.

As ocean freight rates rise and remain unpredictable, Russian shippers are switching tracks and increasingly using rail transport to get goods from China.

Tariff Authority for Major Ports has tentatively approved Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust’s proposal to equalize rail and truck handling rates, driving down the costs of rail and up those for trucking.

Draft rules to sharply curb outbound direct investment would impact investment in overseas port and logistics assets under the country’s Belt and Road program.

Russia’s competition authorities are weighing punishments for road and rail operators found guilty of anticompetitive practices.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust wants to cut the costs of using rail and increase the rates for trucking in order to close the traffic gap between the two modes.

Surcharges have long been a subject of acrimonious debate between ocean transport service providers and shippers.

Container Corporation of India has slashed its tariff for the movement of containers from the Ludhiana Container Depot, a major northern hinterland point, to Mundra Port.

VTG’s profit continued to surge into the third quarter on the back of a successful refinancing and synergies from an acquisition.

Shippers have generally welcomed the new approach.

Chennai Port Trust has extended a plan to lower rail costs.

Russian auto and railway carriers will soon adopt a new contracting system meant to provide shippers with long-term pricing certainty and increase infrastructure investment, but some shippers are concerned about the new system.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has struggled to increase the share of rail used to get containers out of its facilities despite a slew of efforts to do so.

The Russian government’s decision to subsidize imports from China arriving via rail will cut costs and result in faster transit times.

India is pushing hard to get shippers to move more cargo via the country's railroads.

The fee will further drive up surface transportation costs in Russia, where trucking rates are also set to jump.

PSA International is making its first venture into China’s hinterland rail network.

The Port of Rotterdam is aiming to expand its reach into the central European hinterland via containerized rail.

Mexican shippers and railroads are closely watching to see if a new regulatory agency will lower rates and how it will weigh in on disagreements between carriers and customers, as intermodal volume growth sputters.