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.
Georgia’s Black Sea ports seek role in new international trade corridors
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Caucasus country of Georgia has three leading ports alongside its Black Sea coastline, Anaklia,...
Amber Rail Freight Corridor becomes operational
Koper, Slovenia, February 13, 2019 – With the publication of paths for international freight trains in mid-January 2019 the Amber Rail Freight Corridor...
Trenitalia to start operation of line linking Rome to Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Italian company Trenitalia plans to start the operation of a cruise passenger service...
France’s Viia to launch rail service linking Barcelona port to Luxembourg
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – French railway transporter company Viia plans to open its new railway line between Barcelona port and...
A Coruña port to soon tender €150 million railway project
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – A Coruña port will soon tender a €150 million ($169.4 million) project for the construction of a rail...
Barcelona port approves launch of railway coordination centre
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Barcelona port has approved the launch of a railway coordination centre and has tendered the...
Trieste Marine Terminal starts Bavaria rail service for Sägewerk Schwaiger GmbH
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) has announced a new train service to Hengersberg, south-eastern...
Brexit preparedness: provisional agreement on realigning North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor and investing in the adaptation of transport infrastructure for security and border checks
European Commission – Press Release – February 8, 2019 The European Parliament and the Council on the North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor  –...
Spain’s Renfe MercancÃas to launch new service linking Madrid to Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Spanish state-owned freight railway operator Renfe MercancÃas plans to launch a new service of three...
Trieste port hosts Silk Road-railways forum
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – On February 14, 2018, the Trieste Maritime Station will host a conference called “Le vie della seta e...
Livorno port improves rail access to Darsena Toscana terminal
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Livorno port has introduced new procedures for rail traffic entering and exiting the Varco Ferrovia...
EU provides €233 million for Anaklia port development
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) – February 4, 2019 – Anaklia Deep Sea Port will receive for the second stage of its construction European Union (EU)...
60,000 TEUs via the Middle railway corridor between China and Europe in 2019
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 4, 2019 – Some 60,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)’s should be shipped along the Middle Corridor in 2019,...
Transport development discussed at joint EU-Georgia meeting
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – The first EU-Georgia High- Level Transport Dialogue took place on 29 January 2019 in Tbilisi,...
Valencia port president promotes Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of...
MSC to build Portugal’s largest dry port
Lousado, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to build Portugal’s largest dry port through Medway,...
Contship’s Melzo RHM rail terminal set to receive trains from Chengdu in China
Milan, Italy, January 24, 2019 The first westbound train connecting RHM terminal in Melzo with China, operated by FELB, left Chengdu on Saturday January 26,...
Rail freight traffic drives Trieste port’s growth in 2018
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Trieste port was the largest Italian harbour in terms of cargo traffic in 2018, backed by the rail freight...
GEFCO supplies wagons to PSA Kenitra plant in Morocco
Tanger, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – GEFCO, a global operator in supply chain solutions and the European leader in automotive logistics,...
Noatum to complete Bilbao port rail terminal expansion in June
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – Noatum Container Terminal Bilbao will complete in June the expansion of its rail terminal, which will...