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.
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will be launched at the end of October
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway will be launched at the end of October, Ahmet Arslan, Turkish...
Bombardier opens new rail maintenance depot in Contship’s Melzo rail hub
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology and equipment manufacturing, has opened a...
Valencia port needs good links with Bilbao, Cantabrian coast
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martínez said that the port...
AlpineIncT aims to improve regional transport
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Share, implement and realise innovative solutions for the development of combined transport: these were...
Huelva-Zafira rail line’s traffic exceeds expectations
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Huelva port promotion association HuelvaPort has said the cargo traffic of the railway line connecting the...
Trieste port increases intermodal traffic to Budapest
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – “Hungary is becoming Trieste’s first reference market, as for port railway container traffic”,...
Valencia port starts handling PSA cars shipped by train
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Today, Valencia port has received the first train loaded with cars from the Figueruelas factory of PSA...
Trieste Marine Terminal, new rail service for the Czech Republic
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – From September 9, 2017, a new rail service has been set up for the Czech Republic which connects...
Slovenia to build Divaca and Koper port rail link
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – Following a referendum, Slovenia will proceed with the construction of a new high-speed railway line...
Opel to relaunch freight line to Valencia port on October 2
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – German carmaker Opel has said it plans to relaunch the operation of a direct rail line for the transport...
Hannibal introduces 7th service on the Melzo-Rotterdam rail route
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – Contship has announced that Hannibal will increase the frequency of the Melzo-Rotterdam rail from...
30 organisations ask europe to invest more in transport
21 September 2017, European Sea Ports Organisation With the slogan “More EU budget for transport, the best investment plan for Europe” a coalition of...
Huelva port, Renfe Mercancías sign cooperation deal
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has signed a cooperation agreement with Spanish...
Port of Trieste and TMT in Budapest: strategies for the Hungarian market
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – On September 27, 2017, an event “Port of Trieste: Your Rail Port in the heart of Europe”...
Valencia port to introduce rail traffic management platform on Sep 30
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to launch the rail service digital...
Ferrovie dello stato Italiane to takeover TrainOSE
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian state-owned railway company Ferrovie dello stato Italiane will sign a final agreement to take...
Greece to take advantage of strategic position via rail link project with Bulgaria, Tsipras says
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said the project for the launch of a railway corridor linking the...