On May 11, a new intermodal service between the Interporto di Cervignano terminal in Italy and the DPT Pancevo terminal in Serbia, both on the Danube, is to be launched. At the initial stage, trains will run once a week in both directions
Hannibal, a multimodal transportation operator (part of the Contship holding), has announced its plans to launch a new transportation route connecting Budapest (BILK terminal), Curtici (Arad terminal) and Milan (Melzo railway junction) by the end of 2024. The transit time is expected to be 48 hours. Two round trips per week are planned.
VTG: Germany – Ukraine VTG started a new cooperation with Lion Logistics to use T3000 wagons and r2L containers for its operations.
Polish operator PKP CARGO has signed a memorandum of intent to build a multimodal terminal in Radomsko. The project is aimed at developing a terminal that will combine rail and road transport, reorienting train and truck traffic from the center of Radomsko to its outskirts.
On April 22, representatives of the European Commission, the Department of Mobility and Transport of Slovakia, and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport Denisa Žiláková visited the ZSSK CARGO TKD Dobrá combined transport terminal and the transshipment point in Čierna nad Tisou
On April 22 at 13:00, the Border Guard of the Republic of Poland reported the end of the protest of Polish farmers in front of the Dorohusk-Yagodyn checkpoint which had been ongoing since February 9.
As part of USAID’s Economic Resilience Activity, 42 rail and road checkpoints are to be modernized on Ukraine’s western borders. So far, 20 road and seven rail checkpoints have been inspected. They are crucial for Ukrainian exports and need to be improved to create new export routes.
METRANS, a member of the European logistics company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, has launched a new rail connection between its terminals in Dabrowa Gornicza (Poland) and Mostyska (Ukraine) for the further transportation of goods to Europe and Ukraine.
On April 11, the first link of the rail and sleeper grid of the new European gauge railway connecting Uzhhorod and Chop was solemnly laid. Thus, Uzhhorod will become the first regional center to have a 1435 mm gauge connection to Europe.
The Romanian railway company GRAMPET Group has announced the completion of construction and the start of testing of the largest transshipment terminal for agricultural products in Europe located on the Romanian-Ukrainian border in the village of Dornesti (Suceava County). The total investment amount is €10 million.