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.
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...
New maritime railway station planned for Savona port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 8, 2024 – A memorandum of understanding to build a new maritime railway station and adapt the connection between the...
Transport and logistics hub also on Russia’s Lena River
Nizhny Bestyakh, Russia (Ports Europe) October 7, 2024 – The 1.5 km access railway line from Russia’s Nizhny Bestyakh station in Yakutia to the berth...
Russia’s private Pacific Railway, to Port Elga starts operations in 2025
Elga, Russia (Ports Europe) September 29, 2024 – Russia’s 531-km long private Pacific Railway, to the coal sea terminal Port Elga (Khabarovsk Krai),...
Ruscon launches China-Moscow rail cargo service
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 24, 2024 – Ruscon, part of Delo Group, has launched a new railway service for cargo delivery from China to...
North Sea Port upgrades rail in Verbrugge Zeeland Terminal
Vlissingen, Netherlands (Ports Europe) September 24, 2024 – The Verbrugge Zeeland Terminal in Vlissingen has started operating two newly lengthened...
200th container train from China arrives in Aktau port
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – The 200th container train so far in 2024 from China has arrived at Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port...
Antiquated railway and road infrastructure in Russia
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 15, 2024 – Russia’s attempt to bypass Western sanctions by redirecting its trade towards the East (China) has...
First China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan freight train
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 12, 2024 – The first China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan freight train departed from Wuxi, Jiangsu province near...
Port of Gioia Tauro receives no bids for railway tender
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 9, 2024 – The tender for the “concession of the railway shunting service for the port area of Gioia...
Delo Group to develop rail transportation in Republic of Sakha
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 5, 2024 – The Delo Group plans to develop railway transportation in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) with its...
Port of Algeciras plans to new rail terminal
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has awarded Ineco a €281,479 contract to carry out...
New JV to manage Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line in Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 27, 2024 – Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) and Georgia’s Marabda-Kartsakhi Railway announced on August 23 the creation...