Canada to accelerate phasing out of DOT-111 tank cars
Canadian Minister of Transport Marc Garneau issued Protective Direction 38, which accelerates the phasing out of DOT-111 tank cars for […]
Freight
Port of Hamburg launches Hybrid shunting locomotive
Metrans has begun operating its first new hybrid shunting locomotives at the Port of Hamburg. Metrans, the rail subsidiary of […]
Zimbabwe proposes new legislation for rail freight transport
The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development in Zimbabwe, Joram Gumbo, announced legislative changes in order to limit the bulk […]
Greece launches EOI for ROSCO
The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRDAF) has published a letter for the privatisation of Hellenic Company for Rolling Stock […]
US: AKMD introduces first ethanol unit train solution for North Little Rock’s gasoline-blending industry
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced that beginning from this fall, its Arkansas Midland Railroad Company, Inc. (AKMD) subsidiary will offer […]
Cars transported through Channel Tunnel by rail for first time in five years
Groupe Eurotunnel announced that a train transporting new cars from Bristol (UK) to Ghent (Belgium) travelled through the Channel Tunnel. […]
UIRR represented by Ralf-Charley Schultze at the Railway PRO Investment Summit
Mr Ralf-Charley Schultze will attend the Railway PRO Investment Summit 2016 as speaker. Before going to Austria, he was responsible […]
PKP Cargo not to purchase Orlen KolTrans and ZCP Euronaft
PKP Cargo and PKP Cargotabor Uslugi, its subsidiary, have withdrawn from the conditional agreement to acquire a 99.85% stake in […]
Kazakhstan plans to produce high-speed locomotives
Kazakhstan’s electric locomotives assembly factory, Elektrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty, will start production of high-speed passenger locomotives in autumn 2016, said the […]
Transnet expands capacity on coal lines
The first phase in the expansion of the coal line between the Waterberg in Limpopo and Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal […]