Polish president Andrzej Duda has reportedly threatened to effectively close the Malaszewicze rail border crossing with Belarus. The crossing is key to China’s overland exports to Europe. By…
Lithuanian Railways (LTG Group) are forced to release around 2,000 employees in an attempt to cope with the increasing financial losses following sanctions against Russia and tension between…
Trailer traffic through Denmark, rising container prices on the New Silk Road, digital coupling and more capacity for freight. They all have in common that they are shaping…
ePIcenter is an international technology and innovation project to improve the efficiency of freight flows and reduce congestion in the European TEN-T network. Advanced logistics scheduling algorithms are…
Train traffic between Europe and China has proven to be the most resilient transportmodality during the ongoing pandemic. The New Silk Road is shock proof! This is the…
RailFreight.com organises a free webinar on the transit of European products by rail through Russia. Formally, this transit traffic is permitted per 1 July, implying the opening up…
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and China Railways (CR) will strengthen their cooperation in several areas. The companies will extend their exchange of knowledge to new, innovative technologies for railways.…
In less than a month, the second edition of the New Silk Road Congress takes place in the Dutch city of Tilburg. On 27 September, Het Patronaat will…
Europe is the first and the last mile on the New Silk Road. This should be an incentive for European governments to pursue assertive policy when it comes…
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan have signed an agreement to develop Europe’s first commercial Hyperloop system. The agreement was signed last week in…
DB Schenker was granted an international price for its services on the Silk Road during the AFLAS Awards 2018 in Shanghai. The company won in the category Best…
While volumes on the New Silk Road are rapidly increasing, the route also has some serious bottlenecks, such as the Małaszewicze-Brest border crossing, connecting Poland and Belarus on…
A prevailing focus on the Europe-China northern rail freight route is detracting from the possibilities offered by southern Europe and Asia’s other diverse economies, says Professor Richard Griffiths,…
Today is the first day of the Rail Freight Summit, held in Wroclaw, Poland. Over the next two days, expert speakers will share their knowledge and experiences regarding the…
The New Silk Road is not always the best option. The Silk Road is not the only route. And the numbers are impressive, but not the only numbers.…