Freight news – Page 99
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NewsEtihad Rail awards Abu Dhabi – Dubai construction contracts
UAE: Etihad Rail has awarded the next two civil engineering and track works contracts for the construction of Stage Two of the national railway network. With a total value of 4·4bn dirhams, the 216 km Package B and 94 km Package C routes will form the backbone of the UAE’s ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Following an agreement with Indian rail freight company Concor, exporters and importers can now book both rail and sea transport using Cogoport's booking platform. ‘For the first time shippers have a single factory-to-ship planning and booking platform’, said Cogoport founder and CEO Purnendu Shekhar. ‘It’s a significant advance for businesses ...
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NewsMolasses wagons delivered
RUSSIA: GATX Rail Vostok has taken delivery of 26 molasses wagons of a new design developed by United Wagon Co. UWC said the Type 15-6900-04 developed by its All-Union Research & Development Centre for Transportation Technology and manufactured at its TikhvinChemMash site was the only 1 520 mm gauge wagon ...
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NewsNapier to Wairoa line reinstated
NEW ZEALAND: KiwiRail has completed rehabilitation of the 115 km Napier – Wairoa line, which was mothballed in December 2012 following severe storm damage. The project was supported with NZ$6·2m from the Provincial Growth Fund. ’Our next focus is to establish a log-hub in Wairoa so we are ready to ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
The Queensland government is to provide A$20m/year for four years to reduce Queensland Rail track access charges on the Mount Isa corridor, which operator Aurizon says have contributed to freight being sent by road. Mercitalia subsidiary TX Logistik has obtained a B licence enable it to operate in Denmark from ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight to reopen March sidings
UK: GB Railfreight has secured a lease for the disused March Up Yard rail sidings in Cambridgeshire in eastern England. The operator plans to use the site for the stabling and maintenance of rolling stock which is used on freight trains between Middleton Towers and Yorkshire, to carry aggregates between ...
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NewsMethanol wagon order
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co’s TikhvinChemMash is to supply 100 Type 15-6880 methanol tank wagons to chemical company Shchekinoazot by the end of July. The wagons will have a capacity of 88 m3 or 73 tonnes, up to 2 tonnes more than older designs, with 25 tonne axleload bogies. ...
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NewsPPP partners to develop Utah freight railway
USA: Proposals for the construction of a 160 km freight railway to serve the Uinta Basin region of Utah state are to be taken forward under a public-private partnership, with the aim of starting construction in 2022. The Uinta Basin Railway is being promoted by the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, ...
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NewsTAZARA seeks opportunities with the private sector
AFRICA: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority board is seeking to develop open access operations to increase traffic on its network, ‘in view of the good performance by the private operator so far’. Following its meeting in Dar es Salaam on June 1, the board directed the railway’s management to appoint a ...
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NewsOperail concerned about infrastructure charges
ESTONIA: State owned logistics company Operail has reported a net profit of €2·6m for the first three months of 2019, double the figure for the same period last year. Chairman Raul Toomsalu said the main source of profit was the lease fleet of 2 100 wagons, with revenue up 65% ...
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NewsStadler sees success on six axles
EUROPE: Stadler says that its family of six-axle diesel, electric and bi-mode Eurodual locomotives are ‘30 to 40% better in terms of track forces’ than ‘most of the four-axle locos in use around Europe today’. Antonio García Ricos, Engineering Vice-President of Stadler Valencia, told the Transport Logistic trade show in ...
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NewsTambo Springs terminal ‘will change the face of Gauteng’
SOUTH AFRICA: The Southern Palace Joint Venture Consortium has won a 20-year concession to design, finance, build and operate a major intermodal terminal serving Gauteng province. Announcing the ‘historic public and private sector partnership’ on June 5, Transnet said the R2∙5bn terminal forming part of the Gauteng Integrated Transport Master ...
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NewsPassengers prevail over freight in capacity allocation dispute
SWITZERLAND: The need to provide a minimum level of network capacity for freight operators should not be understood in absolute terms, but instead all relevant interests need to be weighed up, the Federal Administrative Court has ruled in a dispute about train paths. As a result, its says the needs ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Polish operator Industrial Division has ordered five Siemens Vectron locomotives for use by its Cargounit subsidiary. Three are to be used on north-south intermodal services and two on east-west services. Bombardier Transportation had also bid. Three EMD Class 66 locomotives currently used in Sweden are to be leased from Beacon ...
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NewsPoland – Luxembourg rail motorway service to launch this year
EUROPE: Polish freight terminal operator CLIP and Luxembourg’s CFL Multimodal are to launch a ‘rail motorway’ service between Swarzędz near Poznań and Bettembourg-Dudelange by end of this year. There will initially be four round trips per week, each with a capacity of 37 intermodal units. The Lohr piggyback system will ...
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NewsInfrastructure managers must do more to help freight, warns Mercitalia
EUROPE: Mercitalia Logistics Chief Executive Marco Gosso strongly criticised the performance of European infrastructure managers at the Transport Logistic trade show in München on June 6. Insisting that the FS subsidiary would ‘increase the pressure on infrastructure managers’, Gosso said that freight operators were still not being adequately compensated for ...
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NewsSBB Cargo makes progress in wagonload automation
SWITZERLAND: SBB Cargo plans to trial automated brake tests for freight trains by the end of the year as it makes headway in its efforts to digitalise its wagonload business. The operator has been trialling autocouplers on 130 wagons used on dedicated intermodal shuttles for more than a year, Project ...
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NewsRailUSA acquires Florida line from CSX
USA: Freight railway group RailUSA has announced its second acquisition, forming the Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad with the purchase of a 690 km line from CSX Corp. Terms were not disclosed. The FGA runs east–west across northern Florida from Baldwin near Jacksonville to Tallahassee and Pensacola, ...
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NewsToshiba unveils tri-mode locomotive demonstrator
GERMANY: Toshiba Railway Europe unveiled a electric-diesel-battery hybrid traction technology demonstrator locomotive at the Transport Logistic trade show in München on June 4. The company has a contract to supply 50 diesel-battery centre cab locomotives to DB Cargo from 2021, TRE Managing Director Hinrich Krey told Railway Gazette. The demonstrator ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Canadian Pacific has signed an agreement to handle all of Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp’s traffic from the Port of Vancouver for three years from January 1 2020. Following a successful trial in Europe, CFL Multimodal is to use Traxens cargo tracking equipment on Europe to China routes. ‘The technology ...