Freight news – Page 95
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NewsCamrail and Sitarail sign freight deals
AFRICA: Freight transport agreements have been signed by Bolloré Transport & Logistics railway concessionaires Camrail, which operates in Cameroon, and Sitarail which links Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Bolloré and forestry company SEPBC have agreed to work together to increase the volume of timber exported from Cameroon. Camrail will transport ...
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NewsNYSW selects ARINC RailwayNet technology
USA: New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway has selected Rockwell Collins’ ARINC Railway Net service to support the roll-out of Positive Train Control. NYSW operates a network of more than 600 route-km in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, carrying commodities including lumber, construction materials, chemicals, food ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
CSX Corp has announced a new eastern and western management structure intended to decentralise operational and support functions. ‘This is a proven model that pushes decision making closer to the day-to-day field operations and eliminates bureaucracy and long-standing silos within our business’, said President & CEO James ...
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NewsInternational Rail Partners buys its first short line
USA: International Rail Partners has made its first short line acquisition, buying Grenada Railroad from Iowa Pacific Holdings and taking over operations on August 2 under a lease-purchase agreement with the North Central Mississippi Regional Railroad Authority which owns the infrastructure. Terms were not disclosed. Oppenheimer & Co acted as ...
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Rail Business UKWorld rail freight news round-up
Nurminen Logistics plans to launch a regular container train service from the port of Helsinki to China via Russia and Kazakhstan in the final quarter of this year. The company reports that demand for Finnish railway transport services grew considerably in H1 2018, boosted by container transport from Finland to ...
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NewsČD Cargo orders interoperable locomotives
CZECH REPUBLIC: Two locomotive orders were approved by the ČD Cargo board on August 8. Bombardier Transportation is to supply 10 Traxx MS3 electric locomotives in 2019-20, with options for up to 40 more. These will be designated as the new Class 388. Siemens is to be awarded a KC400m ...
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NewsFreight terminal opened east of Moscow
RUSSIA: The Vostochny freight terminal near Elektrougli station 36 km east of Moscow on the line to Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod was opened on July 31. Natalia Tsukanova, CEO of terminal operator Obltransterminal, said the facility has been built in just one year thanks to the assistance of Russian Railways, ...
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Rail Business UKRailway Customs Areas proposed to handle Brexit border requirements
UK: The relative reliability and security of rail freight and the availability of spare capacity through the Channel Tunnel could provide shippers with an attractive alternative to road haulage if the introduction of customs requirements causes increasing delays at the UK’s ports of entry following Brexit, according to a report ...
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NewsMercitalia takes delivery of shunting locomotives
ITALY: CZ Loko has delivered five EffiShunter 1000 shunting locomotives to Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal, which will deploy them at freight terminals in Milano, Ravenna and Livorno. The 100 km/h TSI-compliant four-axle single-cab locomotives have 895 kW Caterpillar C32 engines, AC-AC transmissions and a fire safety system. ‘This contract has ...
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NewsHigh-capacity container wagons ordered for Poland – Russia route
EUROPE: United Wagon Co has won an international tender to supply Polish company Laude Smart Intermodal with 200 flat wagons for transporting heavyweight containers on the 1 520 mm gauge corridor between Russia and Poland. Deliveries are scheduled to be completed by the end of Q2 2019. The Type 13-6851-01 ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Indian Railways’ Golden Rock workshop has manufactured a batch of 40 Type BLL high-capacity container wagons for Container Corp of India which are fitted with RFID tags for tracking. DB Cargo UK has launched a recruitment drive seeking train drivers, engineers and ground staff, including people for the new role ...
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NewsCaustic soda wagons on stream
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co’s TikhvinChemMash plant has supplied leasing company GATX Rail Vostok with 20 tank wagons suitable for transporting caustic soda and other chemicals. The Type 15-6900 wagons have high axleload bogies and a tank volume of 54·5 m³, giving a capacity 5 tonnes higher than older designs and ...
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NewsGATX announces long-term wagon order
USA: Leasing company GATX Corp has entered into an agreement to purchase 7 650 wagons from American Railcar Industries over five years from April 2019. The order announced on August 1 covers a mix of tank and other types of wagon, and there is an option for up to 4 ...
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NewsCoil wagons enter service
ITALY: FS Group freight subsidiary Mercitalia Rail announced on August 2 that it had put into service the first 33 of 240 steel coil wagons which it ordered from Greenbrier last year. The wagons are equipped with real-time monitoring sensors which are powered by an onboard energy harvesting and storage ...
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NewsRolling motorway service targets transit freight
ROMANIA: CFR Marfă launched a rolling motorway service on July 26, having received financial support for the project from the national environment fund. The service is aimed at transit traffic, running from Dorneşti near the border with Ukraine to Giurgiu on the border with Bulgaria and Ruse across the River ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
RZD Logistics and China Railway Corp have delivered an initial shipment of goods from Beijing to Moscow in a van attached to a passenger train, following the signing on June 8 of a memorandum for the development of cross-border express freight services. The shipment of LED lights and office supplies ...
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NewsLocomotives handed over to Green Cargo
SWEDEN: The first two of eight Transmontana electric locomotives which Green Cargo has ordered from Romanian manufacturer Softronic were formally handed over at the freight operator’s Eskilstuna depot on July 24. Green Cargo ordered its first two Transmontana locomotives in July 2017, and then in April this year it ordered ...
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NewsRail Baltica freight terminal feasibility study
EUROPE: Rail Baltica project promoter RB Rail has awarded a joint venture of Civitta Estonia and Railistics a €140 000 contract to undertake a feasibility study for a freight terminal at Pärnu in Estonia. ETC Transport Consultants, Ernst & Young Baltic and AECOM had also bid for the contract. The ...
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NewsHigh-capacity container wagon certified
KAZAKHSTAN: Wagon manufacturer Ziksto has obtained certification enabling the start of series production of its Type 13-6922 high-capacity container wagon. The four-axle wagon has been developed to carry heavy containers including tank-containers carrying hazardous goods. ‘The increased carrying capacity will allow the train operator and the owner of the ...
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NewsEurasian freight co-operation agreement
INTERNATIONAL: An agreement for co-operation between logistics hubs to promote the development of Eurasian rail freight has been signed by rail freight association FERRMED, the International Union of Railways and the government of Zhengzhou. The agreement was signed during the Eurasian Connectivity & Industrial Co-operation Forum held in the Chinese ...