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.
Rail Cargo Hungaria orders CRRC locomotives
HUNGARY: ÖBB-owned freight operator Rail Cargo Hungaria has awarded CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive a contract to supply four prototype ‘high power’ electric–battery main line and shunting locomotives.
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Lineas has doubled capacity on its intermodal trains in and out of Antwerpen from 2 600 to 5 300 containers per week to take traffic off the local road network during the Oosterweel road construction project.
PhosAgro orders technically sophisticated sulphur wagons
RUSSIA: Fertiliser producer PhosAgro Group has ordered a further 56 molten sulphur tank wagons from United Wagon Co.
Failure ‘not an option’ for maize shipments
AFRICA: The Grain Marketing Board of Zimbabwe has awarded Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority, Zambia Railways Ltd and National Railways of Zimbabwe a contract to transport 17 000 tonnes of maize from Tanzania to Bulawayo.
CN to acquire Massena line from CSX
NORTH AMERICA: CN has signed an agreement to acquire CSX’s 350 km Massena line which runs from Valleyfield in Québec to Woodard in New York state.
EBRD backs grain transport modernisation in Ukraine
UKRAINE: Agricultural produce merchant Louis Dreyfus Co is to establish a wagon logistics business with a fleet of up to 1 000 grain hoppers, backed by an US$35m EBRD loan.
Winchester & Western Railroad sold
Tsunami Gate wagon to make a splash at Railway Interchange
Ukrainian railway reform legislation introduced
Afghanistan – China rail freight service sets off
Automated freight loco poised to start trials
Northland line renovation funded
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Production of high-capacity container wagons begins
Swiss Combi buys stake in SBB Cargo
SBB Cargo plans in the cloud
Channel Tunnel ‘ready for Brexit’
Wagon leasing joint venture formed
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Wagons for heavy containers delivered
Texol orders articulated LPG tank wagons
ERFA Secretary General appointed at an ‘exciting moment’
Australian investment group FSI to buy Patriot Rail
DB Cargo wagons are getting smarter