Freight cars, leasing or acquisitions?
The last two years have been characterised by European rail freight carriers as particularly harsh because of the economic recession […]
January 2011
Rail freight market liberalisation improves leasing services
Rail freight market liberalisation aims at improving rail transport efficiency in the context of a single market. More precisely, this […]
Efficient fleet management = cost reduction and satisfaction of customer demands
The successful negotiation between a railway operator and a leasing company represents the key to fleet management optimization, allowing any […]
Cross-acceptance procedures need simplification
Authorisations of railway vehicles in Member States are based on the Technical Specifications for Interoperability and national technical rules. Both […]
Containers of 2011: smaller sizes and eco-friendly technologies
Every day more diversified in sizes, space and use, containers could not avoid the global current of ecologisation either. Therefore, […]
Both traditional and innovative, this is how container handling technologies look like
When it comes for container handling technologies, the two factors that everything gravitates around are speed and weight. Different said, […]
Container transport security still raises problems to authorities and operators
For transport security there is a variety of technologies developed to detect dangers and indentify hazards in freight transport. One […]
European freight cars standards, a challenge for manufacturers
Rail transport is gaining considerable attention, due to the technological progress, international standardization, global economie and business changes which helped […]
Main objective for 2011: rail freight transport prioritisation
Even though the liberalisation of the rail freight transport market has allowed the access of new operators, the market mechanisms […]
Track access charge – lever in establishing the competitiveness of freight sector
To ensure the coherence and continuity of the infrastructure capacities available along the freight transport corridor, investments in that specific […]