CSX railroad in the firing line

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This month, the US Surface Transportation Board (STB) upped its monitoring of CSX Transportation, which is now undergoing a dose of so-calle...

Boost for Indian rail

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The World Bank is to draw up plans for a US$77B makeover for the Indian Rail Network to transform it from a colonial era means of mass trans...

Wine tasting the Europe/China rail route

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Mainz (Germany)-based JF Hillebrand has published details of its first trial with Groupe InterRail to ship wine in containers by train betwe...

Maersk offers Nepal route

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Further to our story last month (World-Cargo News, May 2017, p8) on Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) and the Nepalese consul in Visakhapatnam ...

Montreal rail/shortsea funds

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The Government of Québec is contributing C$40M in financial assistance to the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) to upgrade its infrastructure. ...

China buys into Khorgos dry port

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Chinese investors have concluded a deal with Kazakhstan’s national rail company, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), which will result in the fo...

Kögel presents its ETMR

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A highlight of the Transport Logistics Munich event in May was a 14.92m-long multimodal Kögel Euro Trailer Mega Rail (ETMR) with a FlexiUse...

More Mongolian train transits

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JSC RZD Logistics, which is owned by Russian Railways, has decided to route more of its China-Europe trains via the Mongolia border point at...

Enter Allrail trade body

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A new trade association has been set up in Europe to represent the interests of non-legacy passenger and freight rail companies. The Allianc...

EKOL on the expansion path

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Turkey’s EKOL Logistics continues to add more intermodal connections to its service offering, and is opening a new train service between C...

…Xiamen/ Moscow link

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The number of rail services from China continues to expand each month, with a new link from Xiamen to Moscow opening this month....

New Kazakh terminal…

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China’s Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) is reportedly prepared to invest around US$90M to build a large logistics terminal a...

Italian job

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Kombiverkehr KG is strengthening its connection with Italy, via the Brenner. The number of daily (six days) train pairs between Frankfurt-am...

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