Gebrüder Weiss using Helrom horizontal rail loading system to ship trailers for Henkel

More containers are moving through Southampton’s Solent Rail Terminal, the integrated handling and maintenance facility at the South of England port, owned by DP World.

Encouraging road hauliers at Southampton to switch to rail has earned DP World two awards from a British rail freight organisation.

Together with logistics company Duvenbeck, Audi AG is using the Helrom horizontal rail loading system to move reduce truck kilometres by 185,000 per week.

As demand in Europe for cross-border transportation fell in 2023, due to the recessionary effects of high energy prices and the Ukraine war, rail-road combined transport also fell, and the situation was aggravated by rail network problems, states Hupac

The trimodal hub, located in the Yvelines Département around 60 kms from central Paris, is aimed at serving the construction and civil engineering sectors in the Greater Paris/Seine Valley region in a cost-effective and environment-friendly manner

From mid-February, the established Kaldenkirchen-Domodossola link will be available with onward steel wheel connectivity to Bari; Domossola-Bari will also be offered as a single route. Thanks to a partnership with Grimaldi, customers can make a single booking between Kaldenkirchen and Patras