Norfolkline rail swap

The partnership will facilitate seamless door-to-door transportation services across the entire market, enhancing efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.

The container rail transport arm of SNCF Fret has acquired Transports Lardon to enhance its end-to-end capabilities. Separately, SNCF Fret must give up some domestic routes

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group recently organised the first test train for the transport logistics specialist between Barcelona and St Valentin/Schwertberg in Upper Austria, in cooperation with Hödlmayr Rail Logistics GmbH and Fret SNCF

Investments from new and existing players are having an effect, but there are still problems to overcome.

A public tender issued by Italian rail network manager RFI for the design and supply of three dual-fuel (LNG/MDO) fast ferries for passenger transport in the Strait of Messina has not elicited a single offer from the market.

Gruppo Grendi, the shipping, ports operator and logistics company, logged sales of €68.6M in 2021, 19% more than in the previous year. This partly reflected some recovery in passenger traffic on its Marina di Carrara-Olbia service and the success of the ro-ro freighter liner service introduced between Marina di Carrara and Olbia last year.