Rail Freight

Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) has continued its drive to enhance the efficient movement of coal along the Hunter Valley Coal corridor with the construction of a new passing loop at Burilda, between Werris Creek and Breeza. The passing loop...

QR National has signed a new long-term haulage contract with Wesfarmers Curragh for the transport of coal from the Curragh mine to the new Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal. The new long-term contract will see up to 1.5 million tonnes...

A freight train weighing 6,300 tonnes, which was equipped with a Granite electric locomotive, left Chelyabinsk’s Main Station on the South-Ural Railway on 14 November and was able to successfully traverse a difficult mountain pass, arriving in Kinel (on...

CN and Coalspur Mines Limited (Coalspur) have announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which they will develop a high-quality logistics supply chain to transport export thermal coal from Coalspur's Vista Coal Project (Vista) near...

Eurotunnel, which transports 1.2 million trucks each year and is a world leader in intermodal transport, has announced that the Modalohr wagon has been authorised for use in the Channel Tunnel. Modalohr wagons, built by LOHR Industries, are used on...

The Rail Freight Group (RFG) has warmly welcomed the arrival of DB Schenker’s first regular continental gauge train to use High Speed 1, the first freight service to utilise the high speed line. The weekly train departed Wroclaw in Poland...

Investment in the UK rail network to accommodate standard sized 9ft 6" containers on more routes while also enabling additional intermodal freight trains to operate on core corridors, will ensure that the growth in demand for containers to be...

European rail freight history was made at 01:00 on Friday 11 November when DB Schenker delivered on-time the first of a regular new weekly container train from Poland to the UK. The train is the first regular rail freight service...

The introduction of Longer and Heavier lorries (LHVs) up to 25.25m long across Europe would 'undermine the objectives of the European Commission’s 2011 Transport White Paper', according to a new study carried out by K+P Transport Consultants and the...

The EBRD has committed to a long-term loan of €22.5 million to fund an investment in new freight wagons to boost by over 70 per cent the fleet of a CIS-wide freight carrier which has a special focus on...