POLAND: Andrex Logistics has opened its Chryzanów transhipment facility in Poland, close to the Siemianówka – Svisloch border crossing with Belarus.
Branded as the East West Intermodal Hub, the 60 000 m2 site has 14 km of 1 435 mm and 1 520 mm gauge track and a 41 tonne gantry crane which can handle up to six pairs of trains daily.
POLAND: Broad gauge freight line manager PKP LHS signed a 121m złoty loan agreement with the European Investment Bank on January 25 to part-finance a 263m złoty investment plan. The plan allocates 184m złoty for the installation of modern signalling to improve capacity and for the provision of optic fibre ...
BELARUS: Belarusian Railway has begun a programme to modernise container transhipment facilities where the 1520 mm gauge and standard gauge networks meet at the country’s western border. An US$8m investment at the Brest Severny intermodal terminal is intended to reduce the time needed to tranship containers on the main corridor ...
INTERNATIONAL: Containers on what was said to be the first rail freight service to be routed from Łódź in Poland to Chengdu in China via the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad were transhipped between the 1 435 mm and 1 520 mm gauge networks at Chernyakhovsk on September 25. The 9559 ...
