Rail Freight

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...

On 14 October Russian Railways and STM - Service (part of Sinara Transport Machines) have signed a contract for the maintenance of their main electric freight series, Sinara (2ES6), which is produced by Ural Locomotives (a joint venture between...

Within 4 years a field in Calais will begin to be transformed into Calais Premier, a 160 hectare logistics park which will be the largest logistics park north of Paris, providing a gateway for goods between the UK and...

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd is to upgrade five Class 92 locomotives for rail freight operations on High Speed 1, as it continues with its plans to introduce regular services on Britain's only European sized railway. These powerful locomotives, which...