Rail freight industry news
The latest news from the worldwide rail freight and logistics industry, including heavy haul, intermodal and wagonload haulage operations, rail freight technology and investment.
Aurizon bulk freight locos enter service
AUSTRALIA: Aurizon has taken delivery of the first four of 10 diesel locomotives which UGL’s Newcastle factory is supplying for hauling copper, lead, zinc and grain trains in New South Wales and Western Australia.
Transhipment capacity doubles at Kazakh border rail terminal
KAZAKHSTAN: The second stage of the Dostyk TransTerminal container terminal at the break-of-gauge on Kazakhstan’s border with China has opened, doubling capacity.
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RFID tags fitted to freight fleets
UK: Work is underway to fit more than 15 000 wagons and freight locomotives with radio frequency identification tags for use by lineside readers at 22 wheelset monitoring locations.
Government sets out ambitions to make rail South Africa’s ‘transport backbone’
SOUTH AFRICA: A White Paper on National Rail Policy has set out the Department of Transport’s ambitions to make rail the backbone of the transport network by 2050.
Sustainable development priority in FS Group’s €190bn 10-year business plan
ITALY: New organisational and governance structures and a focus on sustainability are the centrepieces of a €190bn business plan for 2022-31 unveiled by national railway FS Group.
Call for rail sector to mobilise to get Ukrainian agricultural exports moving
Uinta Basin railway engineering and construction contractors selected
Ferry company forms rail business
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STB seeks to tackle US rail freight performance issues
Santos port rail network to be tendered
Varanasi diesel works to build high-power electric locos
Trans-Caspian rail and sea freight route to Europe launched
Dual-fuel Class 66 tested
Finland’s VR begins terminating Russian rail freight contracts
Romania rehabilitates rail links to Ukraine
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Indian Railways steps up coal deliveries as power demand surges
RegioJet enters the freight market
Indian Railways orders freight multiple-unit fleet
Vale takes delivery of CRRC battery locomotive
São Paulo plans rail revival
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