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UIRR notes strong growth in semi-trailer consignments

News18 Aug 2021

Consignments of semi-trailers grew 3.5 times faster than the total growth in rail/road combined transport shipments in Europe in 2020, accor...

European combined transport steady in 2019

News17 Oct 2020

The UIRR has released its latest annual report (2019-20), reporting intra-European figures for the last full calendar year...

HHLA simplifies intermodal bookings with “Modility”

News8 Jul 2020

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (has come up with an initiative to develop a new booking portal for intermodal transport together with 11 pa...

UIRR and RFG sign MoU

News28 Jun 2019

The International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR) and the UK Rail Freight Group have announced a new collaboration to further ...

UIRR: The European combined transport sector “achieved outstanding growth in 2017”

News21 Jun 2018

Rail-road combined transport in Europe grew by 5.48% in shipments and by 8.7% in tonne-km terms, according to the 2017-18 report of the UIRR...

Hupac steady in 2014

News1 May 2015

Last year Swiss-based UIRR company Hupac transported 660,109 road shipments (approx. 1.32M TEU) by rail. While the core transalpine business...

Hupac posts 1.7% traffic increase

News2 Feb 2014

Swiss intermodal transport operator Hupac achieved a 1.7% increase in transports to 656,877 road consignments...

Road legislation proposal to harm intermodality?

News29 Jan 2014

A number of European transport associations in the road-rail, rail and inland waterways sector have issued a common statement on vehicle wei...

Kombiverkehr expands in Rostock

News1 Jul 2013

Germany’s Kombiverkehr, part of DB Schenker Rail and Europe’s biggest UIRR company, has announced a major expansion programme in the Ger...

Swiss get tunnel vision

News1 May 2013

The state-of-the-art freight corridor via Gotthard makes up a major part of the operational requirement for combined traffic, says Hupac....

UIRR backs lo-lo against horizontal techniques

News9 Dec 2012

The UIRR has backed traditional vertical means of transferring semi-trailers between rail and road against the CargoBeamer and Modalohr syst...

Modal shift moves up the agenda

News1 Feb 2009

The Sarkozy government has an ambitious plan to transfer road freight to the “triumvirate” of other modes - sea, rail and inland waterwa...

Mega-trucks versus rail freight

News1 Jul 2007

The various EU-level rail freight and rail community organisations (UIC, CER, EIM, UIRR, UNIFE and ERFA) have published a new brochure in Pa...

Take out the bottlenecks

News1 Nov 2004

Capacity reserves of the rail network in Europe are inadequate to sustain growth in rail-road combined transport, according to a recently pu...

UIRR notes strong growth in semi-trailer consignments

European combined transport steady in 2019

HHLA simplifies intermodal bookings with “Modility”

UIRR and RFG sign MoU

UIRR: The European combined transport sector “achieved outstanding growth in 2017”

Hupac steady in 2014

Hupac posts 1.7% traffic increase

Road legislation proposal to harm intermodality?

Kombiverkehr expands in Rostock

Swiss get tunnel vision

UIRR backs lo-lo against horizontal techniques

Modal shift moves up the agenda

Mega-trucks versus rail freight

Take out the bottlenecks

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Congestion at CTA

Dry box building boom

Reefer monitoring on barges

Asyaport becomes first port in Türkiye to offer shore power

Hapag-Lloyd improves container tracking for inland transportation

UIRR notes strong growth in semi-trailer consignments

European combined transport steady in 2019

HHLA simplifies intermodal bookings with “Modility”

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Congestion at CTA

Dry box building boom

Reefer monitoring on barges

Asyaport becomes first port in Türkiye to offer shore power

Hapag-Lloyd improves container tracking for inland transportation

Montreal strike leads MEA to suspend salary guarantee

ILWU Canada announces new strike

Ships divert as indefinite strike shuts down Montreal’s Termont terminals

BC Ports start lockout

US ports detail investment plans following US$ 2.9bn Clean Ports Program awards