Railways
All aspects of the relationship between ports and railways. This is mainly railway infrastructure within ports used to deliver and collect cargo from ships. It also includes national and international rail networks used to transport goods from ports to markets in Europe. Also includes EU rail transport policies and regulations (TEN-T). Railways often form parts of international transport corridors.
SNCF invests in Sète rail transport terminal
Sète, France (Ports Europe) January 18, 2025 – Via subsidiary Viia, the French rail operator will invest 10 million euros in modernizing its rail...
Seville Port Authority awards €8 million rail contract
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2025 – The Port Authority of Seville (APS) has awarded an €8 million contract to a joint venture...
Cost of Port Sagunto railway connection increases
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) January 14, 2025 – The budget for constructing three rail branches, totaling nearly 5.6 km, to connect the commercial port...
Port of Barcelona agrees road and rail contract
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 8, 2025 – An agreement has been signed to develop road and rail access to the Port of Barcelona and includes...
CSP Logitren railway operator in Spain increases capacity
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 2, 2025 – CSP Logitren, COSCO’s railway operator in Spain, has added two new locomotives manufactured by...
Construction start of $4.7 bln China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Ports Europe) January 1, 2025 – Construction began on December 27 on the long-delayed 523 km-long China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU)...
First train on the Port of Valencia railway motorway is underway after DANA
News Release – Port of Valencia – December 18, 2024 On the occasion of the reactivation of the railway highway of the Port of Valencia, Juan Carlos...
Tailwind extends Koper-Cargo Terminal Graz service
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) December 12, 2024 – Tailwind Intermodal, which operates Panther Shuttle cargo rail service between the port of Koper...
Kazakhstan-China terminal in Xi’an increases TEU flow
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – On November 29, 2024, the 300th container train left the Kazakhstan-China terminal in Xi’an,...
Baku port launches first container train to China
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) November 27, 2024 – The first container train on the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route’s return trip from...
PSA Antwerp, Combinant sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 22, 2024 – PSA Antwerp and Antwerp-based rail terminal Combinant have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
Port of Trieste, Slovakia plan increased rail links
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) November 21, 2024 – In 2016, rail cargo traffic started between the Port of Trieste and Dunajská Streda in Southern...
BMF Port Burgas started major railway expansion
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 19, 2023 – Private port operator BMF Port Burgas, a concessionaire of the Black Sea’s Burgas East-2 and Burgas...
Rail Cargo Group to launch Rijeka-Belgrade service
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – Rail Cargo Group is to launch a Rijeka-Belgrade service on its TransNET connecting the two rail hubs....
Laude Smart Intermodal plans to build a rail terminal in Ukraine
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – Polish intermodal transport operator Laude Smart Intermodal plans to build a rail terminal in Ukraine....
New intermodal rail connect starts between Venice and Brescia
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) October 28, 2024 – A joint collaboration between Vecon-PSA Venice, Magli – Intermodal Service Group (MIS Group) and...
Port of Rijeka resumes rail transport
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) October 20, 2024 – The Port of Rijeka has resumed rail cargo transport following a week of delays. It will be a further...
Update: North Macedonia torpedoes pan-European corridor 8
Skopje, North Macedonia (Ports Europe) October 19, 2024 – North Macedonia continues to dig its heels and is doing everything possible to torpedo the...
North Sea Port to invest in a new railway bypass
Ghent, Belgium (Ports Europe) October 17, 2024 – North Sea Port will invest seven million euros in a new railway bypass from the North Sea Port to...
Ports of Rijeka and Ploče set for inland cargo delays
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) October 14, 2024 – Traffic on the Rijeka – Zagreb rail line will be interrupted for a week due to the removal of...