Rail Freight

The Scottish Parliament has been urged to recognise the 'strategic economic benefits of investing in rail freight'. The Rail Freight Group (RFG) has written to the Infrastructure & Capital Investment Committee (ICC) of the Parliament, urging it to press the...

Updated forecasts for rail freight have been published today by the Rail Freight Group (RFG) and Rail Freight Operators Association, and continue to show strong prospects for rail freight growth. Produced by MDS Transmodal, the forecasts show that volumes are...

Freightliner PL has been given the prestigious Rynek Kolejowy (Railway Market) Loco of the Year Award. Mr Rafał Milczarski, Managing Director of Freightliner PL, accepted the honour at a ceremony on October 13 during the TRAKO Rail Fair in Gdańsk. The...

CN has announced the purchase of 200 more efficient EcoTherm containers to 'increase customer efficiency and help reduce energy consumption in its fast-growing temperature-sensitive intermodal markets'. Products such as food, beverages, paints and pharmaceuticals require protection against low temperatures. With this...

Trading links between Poland and the UK are to be strengthened during November with the introduction of regular European sized rail freight services by DB Schenker Rail. One train per week will operate between Wroclaw, in Poland, and Barking, London,...

Direct Rail Services (DRS), the UK’s leading rail freight operator has collaborated with Stobart Rail to run a Special rail service from the Port of Felixstowe to the new Stobart Rail facility at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT...

Direct Rail Services (DRS) has launched a revolutionary new service from PD Ports’ Teesport container terminal utilising a unique wagon that can transport high-cube boxes to areas of the UK previously inaccessible by rail. The five-days-a-week service was launched on...

The volume of international traffic between Russia and the Baltic countries for the first 9 months of 2011 increased by 5.5% to 49.3 million tonnes. Of these, 42.6 million tonnes were exported (+2.2%), 2.7 million tonnes were imported (+78.9%), and...

The Hamburg-based wagon hire and rail logistics company VTG Aktiengesellschaft has established a new pool of wagons to provide flexible, ad hoc transports of ethanol from Rotterdam. This provides customers with small or excess quantities as well as those needing...

The Scottish Parliament has been 'warned that Scottish Government climate change targets are threatened by Spending Review plans, which mean there is no obvious or adequately funded grant mechanism for achieving freight modal shift from road to rail'. The Rail...