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.
Gruppo FS Italiane and Snam collaborate to promote study in hydrogen rail transport
Rome, 21 October 2020 – FS Italiane and Snam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility and...
Four bids received for the construction of second track of the Divaca-Koper railway line
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – State-run company 2TDK has reported that four groups have submitted bids in a tender for the...
The Khaf-Herat railway set to link Iran and Afghanistan
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – The Chairman of Afghanistan’s Peace Council Abdullah Abdullah has said that the Khaf-Herat railway is...
Hyundai Corporation discusses railway cooperation in Ukraine
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – Minister of Infrastructure Vladislav Krykliy has met with Il Dong Chang, Director, Hyundai Corporation...
Maersk’s first block train from China arrives in Georgia
Maersk’s intercontinental rail product portfolio expands, with the recent introduction of a block train solution connecting China and Georgia, the first such...
Barcelona port bodies to promote construction of new road and rail access
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 8, 2020 – The Ministry of Development, the Government of Catalonia, ADIF, Ports de l’Estat and the Port of...
Durres port-Pristina rail link agreed
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) October 6, 2020 – The governments of Albania and Kosovo have signed four agreement including one for the construction of...
UTLC ERA JLC and Belintertrans-Germany open joint end-to-end regular multimodal service China to Western Europe
JLC United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Railway Alliance (UTLC ERA JLC) and Belintertrans-Germany GmbH (BIT-Germany) open a joint...
New Genoa-Melzo rail Fast Corridor – Contship
On Thursday, September 3, Rail Hub Milano received from the Italian Customs agency the authorization to activate the new Genoa-Melzo Fast Corridor. Several...
Ukraine and Slovakia to develop multimodal transportation between Asia and the EU
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) September 24, 2020 – Transport ministers from Ukraine and Slovakia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
China launches new cargo train route to Europe via Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) September 20, 2020 – China has started a new rail cargo which will use Kazakhstan’s Aktau port and Baku port as...
Slovenia government welcomes EU cohesion funding for Divača-Koper railway line expansion
Ljubljana, Slovenia (PortSEurope) September 13, 2020 – Slovenian Minister of Infrastructure Jernej Vrtovec has welcomed the allocation of €80 million...
Maersk makes AE19 ocean-rail service from Asia to Europe permanent
Just over a year after its launch in August 2019, Maersk’s AE19 ocean-rail product from Asia to Europe becomes a permanent weekly service responding to...
Italy-Switzerland agreement: Connections between Genoa and Europe strengthened
On the eve of the inauguration of the Ceneri base tunnel and the celebration of the completion of Alptransit, Minister Paola de Micheli and the President of...
First special train from China, with surgical face masks for Italian schools, arrives in Melzo
On Wednesday, August 26th, the first of ten special trains from Xi’an (China) has arrived in Melzo (MI) at Contship Italia Group Rail Hub Milano (RHM)...
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan discuss Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor project
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) August 28, 2020 – Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have discussed joint projects related to Trans-Caspian International Transport...
Azerbaijani Railways improves North-South transport corridor
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) August 25, 2020 – Azerbaijani Railways has started reconstruction of the Guzdek-Garadagh railway that will help the...
5GMED: The future of mobility in the Mediterranean cross-border corridor
News Release – 5G Barcelona – August 20, 2020 Through 4 pilot tests in railway and highway between Figueres and Perpignan 5GMed will demonstrate...
Croatia to receive €23.3 million from CEF for five transport projects
During the past week, the Coordination Committee of the Connecting Europe Facility – CEF presented the results of the evaluation of the second CEF...
Ukrainian-German partnership in the development of intermodal railway transportation
Today, July 30, 2020, in the presence of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladyslav Krykliy and First Deputy Dmytro Abramovich, Acting Chairman of...