The European Union has allocated a €32 million grant for the reconstruction of railway infrastructure in Moldova within the North-South corridor. The funding will be used to modernize the railway section that provides connections between the northern and central regions of Moldova, as well as with international transport networks.
NIBULON has built a gallery at its transshipment terminal in Mykolaiv for receiving cargoes from water transport. As a result, the company’s largest grain hub can now work not only to unload grains and oilseeds from rail to water transport, but also vice versa.
A total of 50,000 tons of ballast gravel from Sweden have been unloaded at the Klaipeda DMP. This is the first shipment under the contract for 86,200 tons; some 36,200 more tons are to be shipped to Lithuania in November.
Starting from January 1, 2025, the Lithuanian freight operator LTG Cargo will change the basic tariffs for its services. According to the company, the update of the cost of LTG Cargo’s services is due to an increase in the tariffs of railway infrastructure operator LTG Infra.
Paneuropa Transport has successfully completed the first intermodal transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail to Poland, testing a new route between the Benelux countries and Eastern Europe.
The Slovenian Parliament has approved a project to double the track on the Divaca-Koper railway line. The total investment in the project will amount to €354 million, with the European Investment Bank covering most of the costs (€250 million).
During the conference “Production, Operation and Repair of Rolling Stock”, Oleg Yakovenko, Director of the Strategy and Transformation Department at JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, reported on main stages of the development of European TEN-T transport corridors in Ukraine.
The general contractor ATLAS WARD POLSKA has completed the modernization of the Loconi intermodal terminal in Radomsko (Poland) after 18 months of work.
On October 17, the Moldovan Railways (Calea Feratã din Moldova) received a vessel carrying 2,400 tons of P-65 rails from Aktobe Rail and Section Works LLP (Kazakhstan) under a contract signed earlier this year. They will be used for the overhaul of railways in Moldova.
Following the bankruptcy of the state-owned railway carrier CFR Marfa, the Romanian government announced the creation of a new state-owned railway freight company, Carpatica Feroviar. It will play a key role in commercial rail freight transportation and crisis logistics, especially amid the war in Ukraine.