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.
Construction of the missing 162 km rail link of INSTC to start in March’24
Rasht, Iran (Ports Europe) September 20, 2023 – The long delayed construction of the 162 km Rasht-Astara railway along the Caspian Sea coast in Iran as part...
Wabtec signs railway development agreement with Kazakhstan
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) has signed an agreement with national...
Adif improves the Sagunto-Teruel-Zaragoza rail line
València, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2023 – Adif has improved the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto line with the commissioning of the seven sidings for...
A new railway and sea ports corridor linking the Middle East, South Asia
New Delhi, India (Ports Europe) September 9, 2023 – A multinational railway and sea ports corridor linking the Middle East and South Asia was announced on...
TransContainer launches new service for cargo from China to Russia
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 6, 2023 – PJSC TransContainer has launched a service for cargo transportation from China to Russia via Suifenhe...
2TDK signs contract signs third contract for Divača-Koper rail expansion
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 5, 2023 – 2TDK has signed a contract for the third set of works on the project to expand the railway between...
Thessaloniki Port Authority launches rail service with Skopje
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 29, 2023 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) is launching a new container block-train service between...
APM Terminals: Rail freight on track for record volumes
Rail is acknowledged as the most fuel-efficient way to move freight over land, with a gallon of fuel stretching an average of 500 miles, according to the...
Next railway corridor: China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan project
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Ports Europe) August 21, 2023 – One of the main topics of China’s Premier Li Qiang visit to Kyrgyzstan in October will be the...
Port of Genoa able to transport 4 m high road trailers by rail
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 15, 2023 – The newly rebuild Facchini 1 tunnel, included in the route of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa...
Valenciaport increases use of rail transport
València, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) 2,180 trains, an average of 87 per...
Algeria’s port railway dream
El-Hamdania, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 14, 2023 – Algeria has an overly ambitious program to establish railway links between its Mediterranean ports in...
Railways play a catch-up game to larger ports
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) August 14, 2023 – When a large vessel carrying for example 5,000 containers arrives at a port, the terminal is, for a...
TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor connects ports of Bari and Naples
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) August 11, 2023 – The railway line between Italy’s Adriatic Sea port of Bari and the Tyrrhenian Sea port of Naples, in the...
Port of Sines to get closer to Spain with a new rail line
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – The upgrade of the railway line between Evora and Elvas (next to the Spanish border) will increase rail...
Metrans starts new regular common train service in Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Staring last June, the new regular common user train service from Metrans connects the port of Rijeka,...
Highspeed railway to the port of Mersin
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, will help Turkey’s...