In early July, the Czech rail carrier EP Cargo (part of the Energy and Industry Holding) will start providing transshipment services for agricultural products between 1520 mm and 1435 mm gauge wagons and into road transport near the Slovak-Ukrainian border.
After testing, the Federal Railways Administration (das Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, EBA) confirmed compliance with the requirements and approved the project for the construction of the Multi Hub Westfalen intermodal terminal.
On June 30, Rail Baltica announced the second stage of the procurement of services for the electrification of the high-speed railway.
In late July, the directors of seven railway companies – Rail Cargo Group, SBB Cargo, SBB Cargo International, Metrans, Lineas, CFL Cargo, BLS Cargo – addressed the German infrastructure operator DB Netz in a joint statement regarding the revision of the amount of cancellation fees set for 2024.
The French company Ermewa is leasing 110 new Faccns railcars to the German rail freight operator Heavy Haul Power International GmbH (HHPI).
In late June, German operator BBL Logistik Group and Vossloh Rolling Stock, a company owned by the Chinese corporation CRRC, signed an agreement to supply ten DE 18 diesel locomotives.
Due to the stable operation of one pellet production line and the launch of the second line at the start of the year, the output of pellets reached 1.1 million tons in Q2, up 18% quarter-on-quarter.
A total of 10,827 wagons were transferred through the Izov-Hrubieszów land border crossing point in June.
As many as 235 wagons were transferred daily through the Chop – Čierna nad Tisou land border crossing point as of July 6 (down 77 wagons compared with the previous week).
PKP Cargo reports that due to the lack of coordination between cargo owners and carriers, there is a queue of trains moving to the recipient Port Północny in the port of Gdansk.