Spanish infrastructure manager Adif has commissioned seven 740m sidings on the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto line to better serve freight traffic at the stations of Cariñena (Zaragoza), Ferreruela, Teruel, La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel), Estivella, Navajas and Barracas (Castellón).
CargoBeamer, the leading operator of rail transportation and terminals for craneless semi-trailers in Europe, is expanding its service line. The route between Kaldenkirchen (Germany) and Domodossola (Italy) has been served since the end of August with 17 weekly round trips or four daily departures in each direction
The Port of Riga has purchased new containers – six SDC 40 units – from Graviti, a Latvian company specializing in loading and unloading equipment. The containers have now been delivered and are ready for operation; the port also plans to purchase six more units.
Duisport Group plans to commission a new Railport terminal (Railport Terminal Isletmeleri A.S.) in Kartepe, Turkey (Kocaeli region) by the end of 2024, and construction is currently underway.
Greece’s north-south railroad line was severely damaged by the Daniel storm that hit the region on September 4. Up to 50 km of railway infrastructure in the central part of the country was destroyed.
Up to 500 wagons with grain were waiting for unloading at Ukrainian sea ports as of September 6. Taking into account that approximately 168 wagons per day are accepted at the stations
Since mid-June, Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) has been cooperating with logistics operators Fortis Logistics Group and Multimodal Solutions & Services to launch a new intermodal transportation service for Ukrainian cargo to the port of Gdynia.
The Bulgarian company Express Service OOD is supplying another ES3000 battery shunting locomotive for the French railways (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, SNCF); this is the fourth locomotive this year.
From September 11 and until the decision is revoked, the French railway operator Fret SNCF will be subject to a convention that will restrict transportation of cargoes of any kind from Slovakia to Spain. This is stated in the ZSSK Cargo notification No. ZAN/497-2187 of September 8, according to the Fret SNCF.
There were about 9,000 wagons with various goods waiting to be transferred through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of September 6 compared with 8,800 wagons in late August.