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.
Almost 10,000 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of September 6, down 304 wagons compared with August 30. In particular, as many as 2,495 wagons were standing loaded with grain (down 134 units compared with August 30)
During a meeting of Ukrainian and Slovak railroaders, Josef Virba, a representative of ZSSK Cargo, said that from September 11 to 17, repair work would be carried out in Slovakia during technological windows.
Ukraine has started exporting grain through Croatian ports. This was stated by the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko during a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia Andrej Plenkovic.
The Panama Canal Authority (Autoridad del Canal de Panama, ACP) is extending for at least ten months the restrictions on vessel passage and maximum draft that were introduced on July 30 this year. The measure was taken due to the record-breaking and prolonged drought in the country and the resulting shallowing of the water.
Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA) is launching a new rail service for container trains between the port of Thessaloniki (Greece) and the city of Skopje (North Macedonia). Trains will run on this route once a week (on Wednesdays).
From September 4 to September 12, due to construction works, ČD Cargo will suspend transportation of all cargoes from Slovakia to the Kunovice-Loucka and Rajnochovice stations in the Czech Republic. The information about the restriction was published in the ZSSK Cargo telegram
At the beginning of the month, Siemens Mobility and Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) successfully implemented the European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 on the 57 km route between Linz and Föcklabruck.