Ryder to operate new US east coast hub 
Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub (SGIH) in Georgia, USA, has completed delivery of a new import distribution space to serve the park's second tenant. Operated by Ryder Logistics, the facility joins A&R Logistics' new rail-served export operations in the park's first million... mehr
Europe's first zero-emission green corridor opened
Thanks to the collaboration of Gruber Logistics, APS Fuel and HAM, Europe's first zero-emission green corridor has now been launched. It is a project that aims to use biomasses for the production of fuel and to fully certify the chain from production to use. The new plant... mehr
Test train run Taijuan – Paris in 24 days
Together with its Chinese and European partners, Transcontainer of Delo Group has arranged a test block train dispatch from Taiyuan city (Shanxi province, China) to Paris (France) via Mongolia, Russia and Belarus. The freight train carrying 50 containers loaded with consumer... mehr
NCRR: new rail spur
The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) is one of several partners named in the recent announcement that Liberty Storage Solutions is expanding its facility in Davie County. The storage shed manufacturer and distributor is building a new manufacturing facility at its... mehr
UK network expands fleet
Pall-Ex in UK is adding more urban delivery vehicles to its fleet to increase its share in the market. In total, the company has taken delivery of eight new vehicles in the last months as part of the first wave of a new investment, with more than ten similar vehicles due to... mehr
Frische Schubkraft 
Vor über zehn Jahren brachten die Türkei, der Iran und Pakistan das gemeinsame Projekt eines durchgängigen Containerzugs auf den Weg. Doch dann schlief es ein. Wie Ali Abdollahi von der Iranischen Bahn dem ITJ mitteilte, kommt jetzt Bewegung in die Sache. mehr
20 candles for rolling highway
Rolling highway (rola) trains set off on the Freiburg (Germany) – Novara (Italy) route for the first time on 11 July 2001. As a pioneering user of the 4-m Simplon intermodal corridor, Swiss Rola operator RAlpin has since then shifted over 1.7 million heavy goods vehicles from... mehr
Ore export railway opened
The African SMB-Winning Consortium, Africa, which specialises in bauxite production, has inaugurated a new 125 km railway line in Guinea. Connecting important storage towns between Boké to Boffa with the river port of Dapilon, the new link will now transport ore destined for... mehr
Jumbo swap bodies save time
Germany-based freight forwarder Würfel is investing in jumbo swap bodies that feature a transfer plate for loading cargo into other swap bodies. This means that both jumbo swap bodies of a vehicle can be loaded or unloaded at the same time, using only one gate on the ramp for... mehr
Russian shunting locomotive delivered
The Lyudinovo Diesel Locomotive Plant (part of Sinara Group) recently produced and dispatched a TEM9 shunting diesel locomotive to the Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Association (part of the Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom). The four-axle shunter with... mehr