Rail Freight

Euro Carex has completed a test run of the first high speed freight train between Lyon St Exupéry airport and St. Pancras International, travelling via Paris Charles De Gaulle airport. The high speed freight train number 27274 left Lyon-St Exupéry...

QR National has extended its relationship with Southern Cross Fertilisers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL), signing two long-term haulage agreements in north-west Queensland. The Rail Haulage Agreements include the transport of sulphuric acid from Sun Metals and IPL’s Mount Isa plant to Phosphate Hill and formed sulphur from the Port of [...]

Amtrak recently achieved Climate RegisteredTM status by successfully measuring its carbon footprint according to The Climate Registry’s best-in-class program, then having it third party verified and reporting the data on The Registry’s website. With this status, Amtrak takes a major step toward reducing its energy usage, costs and carbon emissions. The Climate Registry is a [...]

Keyline has become the only heavy building materials provider to the rail industry to achieve the Gold Standard of the Freight Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS). The Transport for London (TfL) initiative aims to improve freight distribution in the capital and...

The Freight Transport Association has praised Britain’s retailers for attempting to move more goods by rail. The FTA’s report, ‘On Track!’ points out the economic and environmental benefits of using rail in supply chain logistics. Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s, the Co-Op and B&Q all contributed case studies to the report, outlining [...]

Dynamic Fuels, LLC and Mansfield Oil Company have signed an agreement to supply renewable diesel to Norfolk Southern Corporation. Norfolk Southern has primarily been using a 100% pure Dynamic Fuels renewable diesel at its Meridian, Mississippi rail yard since early January. Dynamic Fuels, a 50/50 venture owned by Tyson Foods, Inc. and Syntroleum Corporation, recently [...]

The cross-country Felixstowe to Nuneaton rail route is set for further improvements as Network Rail begins work on building two 775m loops parallel to existing track east of Ely station. The work will enable better regulation of trains through the...

QR National is on target to meet delivery timeframes for the Wiggins Island Rail Project (WIRP) in Central Queensland with early works commencing across project site locations, the freight operator said. WIRP involves the staged development of new rail lines and upgrading of existing lines to service the new Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal (WICET) [...]

BFK (BAM/Ferrovial/Kier JV) has appointed GB Railfreight to transport excavated material from Crossrail's Royal Oak Portal to Northfleet. Crossrail tunnelling will commence at Royal Oak next month. Excavated material generated from the tunnelling operations for the western tunnels (Royal Oak to...

Asciano announced recently that its Pacific National coal haulage business has entered into a 15 year performance based take or pay contract with Springsure Creek Coal Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandanna Energy. The contract is for the annual movement of up to 4 million tonnes from its proposed Springsure Creek mine in [...]