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.
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...
Port of Leixões increases use of rail
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 29, 2023 – The modernization and expansion of the railway has played a crucial role in the development of...
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...
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,...
Landlocked Serbia with a new rail link to Port of Koper
Nis, Serbia (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – The intermodal rail and road MBOX Terminal in Niš, Serbia, a member of the Milšped Group, has started a new...
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...
Uzbekistan looks for a railway line via Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea
Termez, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – A trans-Afghanistan railway project would connect landlocked Uzbekistan to the Arabian Sea and the...