The transport company Ambrogio Intermodal has announced an investment in intermodal equipment – swap bodies and container chassis – to be supplied by German Kässbohrer. The new fleet (650 units) will expand the company’s capabilities and facilitate the transition to sustainable logistics.
At the end of December, a transshipment record was broken on the Baltic Hub railway line, with 8,201 containers handled in a week. The average figure in 2023 was 6,500 containers per week.
Lithuanian company LTG Cargo (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) has announced the strengthening of intermodal services between Kaunas and Duisburg, Pruszkow and Slavków with the participation of LTG Cargo Polska, which has 31 locomotives at its disposal.
Romanian steelmaker LIBERTY Galati (a subsidiary of the UK-based LIBERTY Steel Group) plans to modernize its Romportmet Galati port to increase its throughput capacity.
The U.S. soybean market has been under pressure from forecasts of favorable weather in Brazil. Relevant export quotes have dropped significantly.
Brazilian corn prices have inched up despite the start of harvesting of the first crop in MY 2023-24. According to Conab, as of December 30, farmers processed 0.9% of the planned areas (0.2% as of the same date last year).
U.S. wheat export quotes have dropped, so demand has increased.
A total of 1.1 million t of cargo were transferred through the Chop – Zahony land border crossing point in 2023, of which 108,200 t fell on imported goods while 1 million t were export cargo. Thus, the cargo flow increased bylmost 400,000 t in 2023 compared with 2022 or 56% year-on-year.
The German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL) announced in a statement that DB Cargo employees would suspend work from the evening of January 9 to the evening of January 12 to go on strike. Passenger traffic operators Deutsche Bahn AG, Transdev and City Bahn Chemnitz have also joined the action (from January 10 to 12).
Since August 8, as many as 469 ships have passed through the temporary corridor of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine open for vessels heading to/from the Black Sea seaports of Ukraine. A total of 15 million t of cargo were shipped from the ports of Pivdennyi, Odesa and Chornomorsk, including… Read more »