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.
Valencia port starts night rail service
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – Last week saw the start of Valencia port’s night train service. The Board of Directors approved the...
Investors of maritime projects discuss potential of Kazakhstan’s ports
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – On July 20, a forum took place in Aktau to discuss increasing cargo in Azeri ports. An international...
Kiel expands southern rail capacity
Kiel, Germany (Ports Europe) July 22, 2017 – The German Baltic seaport of Kiel is to expand its cargo platform space to accommodate longer trains...
Six port multimodal corridor between Greece and Bulgaria
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – By the end of July, Greece and Bulgaria will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the...
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan discuss use of Kuryk port in the Caspian Sea
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) July 16, 2017 – The national railway companies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have discussed cargo transportation from...
EU supports new railway line from Venice to Ljubljana
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The European Union is to support the construction of a new railway line from Venice to Ljubljana, Slovenia....
Adif sets up commission to monitor Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – In Madrid yesterday, the president of Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras...
Railways of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan agreed to strengthen ties
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The head of JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Kanat Alpysbayev has held talks with Deputy Prime Minister of...
Sines port to have railway link to Madrid long before Algeciras
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Sines port is one of the main beneficiaries of the isolation of the port of Algeciras from Madrid due to lack...
TMT expands Trieste-Budapest rail connection
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 9, 2017 – Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. has started a fifth regular weekly block train departure from Trieste to...
Bilbao port to profit from Variante Sur railway project
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that the construction...
Spain to build Valencia-Castellón line of Mediterranean Corridor with standard gauge track
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to build the stretch of the...
Bulgaria and Greece to build a multimodal corridor between Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Danube
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Bulgaria and Greece have announced that they plan to extend the multimodal transport corridor between the...
Slovenia to put Port of Koper rail project to referendum on September 24
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – The Slovenian National Assembly has set September 24 as the date for a referendum on the proposed...
Sagunto-Zaragoza railway corridor can be used by up to 54 trains weekly
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – The railway corridor between Sagunto and Zaragoza could accommodate between 48 and 54 trains per week if the...
Kombiverkehr reports on Greek and Turkish ports traffic
Frankfurt, Germany (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – At a shareholders meeting, Kombiverkehr (Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten...
Washington hosts Trans Caspian Forum
Washington, United States (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – The second annual Trans-Caspian Forum – East-West Trade and Transit Corridor has taken...
Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...
Tarragona port to host conference on Mediterranean Corridor
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Tarragona port will host a meeting to analyse the connections of the harbour to the Mediterranean Corridor on...
A Coruña port calls on government to finance railway line to outer harbour
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The mayor of A Coruña, Xulio Ferreiro, today asked the central government to donate the necessary...