Teaming up to promote main UN road transport agreements 
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the European Commission (EC) and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) have published an advocacy Paper jointly developed within the framework of the EU-funded EuroMed transport project to promote the main UN road... more
Daimler Trucks aiming for further growth
Daimler Trucks expects to record a significant increase in sales in 2014, whilst Mercedes-Benz Trucks plans to further consolidate its position in Europe by offering a completely new range of products. The latter will also further improve its market position in Brazil through... more
First Greece-Czechia train service starting in March
A first test train between the port of Piraeus (Greece) and Czechia will take to the rails in early March. Serbian Railway will participate in the organization of this connection in cooperation with Greek, Fyrom, Hungarian and Czech railways. The running time and stopover of... more
Kombiverkehr monitors trains 24/7
Kombiverkehr’s transport monitoring department is now staffed round the clock from this month - even on bank holidays and at weekends. This ensures that Europe’s biggest intermodal operator is able to provide forwarders and transport companies with information about their... more
Gold for MAN in Russia
For the fourth time in succession, MAN was the leading EU vehicle manufacturer in the Russian market in 2013. Statistics compiled by the Russian institute Evitos-Inform showed that a total of 29,300 trucks of 6 t and over were registered in the country last year. 6,435 of... more
Adding box capacities 
The inland cargo hub of Duisburg is one of Germany’s most important goods handling centres. The Duisport Group, which runs the hub, is now expanding the Logport I and III container terminals, which will bring its handling capacities to 5 million t a year. more
Rising number of deliveries in Europe
Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge AG began the current year by seeing deliveries rise in its European core markets. In the whole of Europe, the German company handed over 21,600 light-weight commercial vehicles to customers (January 2013: 20,300). The number of global deliveries amounted... more
CN plans to invest in safety and efficiency
Canadian National Railway (CN) is to invest approximately CAD 2.1 billion (EUR 1.38 billion) this year in further raising network safety and efficiency, improving service and growing the business. The rail service provider aims to spend more than CAD 1.2 billion (EUR 0.79... more
500,000 boxes moved by rail at CTA
Exactly 496,762 boxes – the equivalent of 813,100 standard containers (teu) – were cross-loaded to and from the railway at Hamburger Hafen und Logistik’s Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) in 2013. This represents an increase of almost 40% in rail handling, compared to 2008,... more
IDS: growth in a turbulent market
Partner firms in IDS Logistik handled a record 11.3 million shipments in 2013. The turnover of Germany’s largest the general cargo cooperation amounted to EUR 1.74 billion in 2013, 1.7% higher than the previous year. The number of domestic consignments rose to 9.4 million –... more