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Rail freight is incredibly important. Whether it is helping to remove lorries off the roads and drastically reducing congestion, or transporting goods that we consume every day, all countries rely on rail freight to provide a faster, greener, safer and more efficient way of transporting goods than via road or air.
Our rail freight content focuses on the biggest trends and developments in helping advance cargo movement by rail and create a modal shift.
Global Railway Review’s regular contributor, Graham Ellis, tackles the old and the new – with news of a newly-built steam locomotive attempting to reach the speeds necessary to work on today’s railway lines, as well improving and expanding old rail lines in the Baltics to make travelling and shipping goods…
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) has announced the launch of the most direct rail transportation service between Vancouver and Detroit.
Siemens and DB Cargo AG have signed a framework agreement for the delivery of 100 locomotives for the Rhine-Alpine-Corridor.
Works are underway on the second stage of the $440 million Murray Basin Rail Project, continuing the upgrade and the conversion of over 1,000 kilometres of track to standard gauge - providing better rail freight services and improved freight access to major ports.
A contract has been signed between PKP LHS and NEWAG S.A, for modernising 10 ST44 diesel locomotives.
DB Cargo and GE Transportation have signed an agreement to digitise 250 locomotives across Germany, U.K, France and Poland over the next five years.
VTG AG is launching a new digital service. In future, customers will be able to access location and event data to make maintenance and logistics processes faster, smoother and more efficient. The underlying telematics system will be rolled-out over the next four years, bringing connectivity to the company’s entire European…
31 January 2017 | By Eduardo Borges Pires, Director of Infraestruturas de Portugal’s Mobility and Clients Department
The aim of Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010 of 22 September 2010 is to improve the efficiency of rail freight transportation relative to other modes of transport through the creation of nine European rail freight corridors. Here Eduardo Borges Pires, Director of Infraestruturas de Portugal’s Mobility and Clients Department, provides an…
24 November 2016 | By Stasys Dailydka, Director General of Lithuanian Railways
In this article Stasys Dailydka, Director General of Lithuanian Railways, explains how the company is investing funds to improve and extend railway infrastructure in the region.
As controlling the levels of railway transportation noise continues to be a hot topic for the industry, Maria Price, Head of European Policies and Public Affairs at the International Union of Wagon Keepers (UIP) and Markus Vaerst, Acting Secretary General of the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA), reflect on recent…
Marcel Ujfaluši – Chairman of the Development Committee of ERWA, the UNIFE Railway Wheelset Committee – highlights the importance of wheelset development for both rail freight and passenger vehicles and includes some informative case studies from ERWA members who are all committed to enhancing their products and services.
8 September 2016 | By Aleksandar Bauranov, transportation engineer and research associate
Aleksandar Bauranov, transportation engineer and research associate, discusses the opportunity of utilising the Port of Piraeus in Greece to cut rail freight times to South East and Central Europe.
6 September 2016 | By Björn Westerberg, CEO of ASTOC (the Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies)
Sweden has one of the most deregulated railway markets in Europe and the European Commission is striving to promote the Swedish system as a role model for the fourth railway package. The next step in the development of Swedish society requires a sustainable, rapid and efficient transport system. As Björn…
6 September 2016 | By John Fullerton, Chief Executive and Managing Director – ARTC
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) manages the Australian interstate rail network and the Hunter Valley coal rail network in New South Wales – which supports the largest coal export port in the world. We have a number of exciting projects underway to grow freight volumes and rail’s place in…
8 July 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
Czech rolling stock manufacturer CZ LOKO has unveiled the EffiLiner 3000 electric shunting vehicle at the Raildays trade fair in Ostrava.
