Rail Freight

CN has announced it completed the merger of three of its U.S. operating subsidiaries on Dec. 31, 2011. The merger of Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company (DMIR), Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company (DWP), and Wisconsin Central Ltd....

QR National unveiled a new vital transport link for the Queensland coal industry this week, opening its $1.1 billion Goonyella to Abbot Point (GAP) Expansion project in the northern Bowen Basin coalfields. Acting Premier, Treasurer and Minister for State Development...

Yesterday in Berlin the CEOs of four rail freight companies – DB Schenker Rail (Germany), TX Logistik (Germany), SBB Cargo (Switzerland) and BLS Cargo (Switzerland) – presented their requirements for the development of the European rail freight transport corridors...

Freight trains from the Buxton area that supply material to power stations to keep them on line as part of the national grid, are being diverted over the Christmas and New Year period while Network Rail carries out vital...

Network Rail has joined forces with DB Schenker Rail to transport furniture destined for Network Rail’s new national centre in Milton Keynes from the continent by rail – saving around 100,000km of lorry journeys and cutting carbon CO2 emissions...

The Romania-based contract logistics specialist, Tibbett Logistics, was named winner of the principal award at the 6th annual Gala Awards of the Romanian Rail Industry Association – Clubul Feroviar – on 8 December 2011. Tibbett Logistics is part of the...

Euromaint Rail signs contract with LKAB for the maintenance of 14 freight carriages. The assignment comprises preventive and corrective maintenance and includes mobile services. A spokesperson for Euromaint Rail said: "We are happy that LKAB has chosen to sign an agreement with...

DB Schenker Rail's coal team has been strengthened following the appointment of Martin Littlemore as Account Manager Coal. Martin joins the coal sector of DB Schenker Rail's Industrial segment from its Construction function where he was Account Manager to a...

Freightliner Heavy Haul has unveiled its new prototype covered hopper wagon that has been developed for the biomass market. The wagon is a modified HHA coal hopper wagon which has covers fitted to ensure that the product is kept dry...

Martin Harris OBE, UK Ambassador to Romania, officially opened Tibbett Logistics' second intermodal (road-rail) terminal in Bucharest this week, following a 6.4 million euro investment in the development. Tibbett Logistics is part of the fast-growing UK-based Keswick Enterprises group. The opening...