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.
Hutchison starts Barcelona port BEST terminal-Lyons railway service
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST), part of Hutchison Ports, has started a weekly container...
Valencia port praises EU decision on railway corridor’s inclusion in Connecting Europe mechanism
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – Valencia port has praised the decision of the Transport Committee of the European Parliament to include as...
AdSP Bari, Interporto Bologna and GTS attend Logitrans event in Istanbul
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – A joint delegation from Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP –...
Government looks to double line Genoa-Ventimiglia railway
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 21, 2018 – The Italian Deputy Minister of Infrastructures and Transport Edoardo Rixi has said that the government...
Algeciras port participates in different forums on railway corridors
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Next week, Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras)...
MSC sets up Trieste port-Giegen rail service
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA has announced a new rail connection between Giengen (a.d. Brenz)...
Venice port to modify rail link to Porto Marghera
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – The City Council of Venice has approved the project for the railway modification to the access road to...
EU invests in Plovdiv-Burgas port railway line
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – The European Union (EU) has announced an investment of over €293 million ($334.62 million) from...
Nestlé Waters to restart Vergèze (Gard) and Fos-sur-Mer port service
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 17, 2018 – Nestlé Waters is restart the 100 km railway line between the Perrier factory in Vergèze (Gard,...
Maersk transports containers to MarÃn port by train for the first time
MarÃn, Spain (PortSEurope) November 16, 2018 – The railway linking Pontevedra to MarÃn port moved containers for the first time in its history on...
Italy to invest €5.7 million in railway project at La Spezia port
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport (MIT) and state-run railway infrastructure...
Mercitalia Rail increases container rail services to Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 13, 2018 –Â Mercitalia Rail (Polo Mercitalia) has initiated ten additional freight trains per week for transporting...
Gijón port awards €550,000 contract to Spanish company Comsa
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 12, 2018 – Gijón port has awarded a €550,154 ($619,000) contract for the overhaul of a railway line to its...
Poor rail infrastructure may hamper Trieste port’s growth
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 7, 2018 – Trieste port is developing rapidly and aims to expand its container traffic to 3.5...
Portugal endorses railway terminal upgrade tender at Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 – Portugal’s government has authorised state-owned enterprise Infraestruturas de Portugal...
EU Commission to invest almost €111 million in Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 –Â The European Commission has adopted five major Cohesion Policy projects for better transport and water...
Ports to benefit from Bulgarian-Greek rail transport agreement
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 –Â Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras signed a joint...
Serbia investing €204 million in water transport infrastructure overhaul
Novi Sad, Serbia (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – Serbia is currently investing a total of €204 million ($233.2 million) in water transport infrastructure...
Hutchison’s Synergy offers Barcelona-northern Spain container rail service
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Synergy, part of the Hutchison Ports group, has started a new container rail service linking...
Seat, Autometro to relaunch rail service to Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2018 – Spanish carmaker Seat SA and Autometro SA, a company owned by FGC and COMSA Rail Transport,...