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.
Rail Transport Service of ValenciaportPCS implementation starts
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – The implementation of the Rail Transport Service of ValenciaportPCS is complete in the import process...
Spanish dry port tmZ receives first container of regular line to China
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Spanish dry port Terminal Marítima de Zaragoza (tmZ) said it has received the first container of the...
Durrës port to benefit from EBRD Balkan transport loans
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – €123 million ($145 million) in European Union grants and €190.5 million (€224.6 million) in...
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire calls for container train link to Lyon
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The French Atlantic seaport of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire is called for the electrification of...
Conference issues call for Marseille-Genoa to join Ten-T transport corridor
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 17, 2017 – Philippe Tabarot, transport officer at the Paca regional council, Joan Amoros, president of the...
DSV to launch Zaragoza-Zhengzhou rail freight service
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Zaragoza dry port operator Terminal Marítima de Zaragoza (tmZ) plans to launch a regular freight rail...
Barcelona port to open railway terminal shortly
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Barcelona port plans to launch in the coming days a terminal for freight trains, increasing its capacity...
Spanish government expects another record-high year at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The cargo traffic will once again beat its absolute record in the ports of Spain. This was confirmed by the...
Genoa looks to take Swiss traffic from northern European ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Whilst the Italian port of Genoa has always had a trading relationship with Switzerland, its full...
Medway to launch regular freight rail line connecting Lisbon to Córdoba
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Portuguese freight rail operator Medway plans to launch a regular line connecting Lisbon to the Spanish...
Spain’s Mercazaragoza consolidates its leadership
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Spanish freight railway terminal tmZ, operated by Mercazaragoza, has consolidated its position as the...
South European ports to benefit from EU Bolzano investment
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Italian scheme to support the shift...
Spanish government to invest €12 million in construction of road access to Castellón port
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to invest €12...
Trieste Marine Terminal reports improved Jan-Oct 2017 traffic numbers
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Total cargo volumes handled at Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) S.p.A. in October 2017 were up 25%...
Castellón port to accelerate development of rail links
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Castellón port authority’s (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) president Francisco Toledo...
Aragon’s freight rail transport to ports rises
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – A total of 70% of the more than 150,000 containers that the Spanish region of Aragon sends to ports are...
EU invests €1 billion in transport network development including ports and Koper railway
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – The European Commission is today proposing to invest €1 billion in 39 transport projects which will...
First Baku-Tbilisi-Kars train departs from Turkey’s Mersin port
Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 30, 2017 – The first train to run from Turkey to Azerbaijan on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway departed from...
Better rail connections in Sicily thanks to Cohesion policy investments
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) November 29, 2017 – Over €105 million ($124.51 million) from the European Regional Development Fund is invested in the...
European Commission publishes “Delivering Ten-T, Facts & Figures September 2017”
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – The document “Delivering TEN-T – Facts and Figures September 2017” summarises key data...