PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA has built three additional tracks at the Malaszewicze station (on the Warsaw-Terespol line, near the border with Belarus), which will increase the capacity of the station, including for foreign traffic.
Ukrzaliznytsia is launching a new Intermodal Train service for the transportation of containers to Poland. The trains will run on the routes Kyiv/Odesa/Dnipro/Vinnytsia-Gdansk.
A new berth No. 5 for the Ro-Ro large-tonnage fleet has been put into operation at the Skandinavienkai terminal in the port of Lübeck (Germany).
Viorel Panait, Chairman of the Port of Constanta Business Association and manager of the port operator Comvex, said that by mid-August the port will be able to handle additional volumes of Ukrainian grain.
Approximately 8,070 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of July 19 (up 560 wagons compared with June 28).
The Hungarian government has approved the abolition of track access surcharges, which should save companies more than €24 million.
The East Adriatic Port Authority, which manages the port of Trieste (Italy), has issued €160 million worth of tenders to start work on the structural consolidation of the seventh pier, the construction of the berth of the Hungarian Aquilina terminal and the environmental safety of the Noghere area.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a €250 million loan to finance the construction of the second track of the railway connecting the Divača transport hub with the port of Koper in Slovenia.
The Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine has applied to the UN International Maritime Organization with a statement of intent to temporarily use the recommended sea route for grain exports after the shutdown of the Grain Initiative.
Thales, a French manufacturer of transportation technologies, plans to build a 4.4 km long railway to connect the Bajo de la Cabezuela dock in the port of Cadiz (southern Spain) with the Las Aletas station, which is located on the main route to Seville.