The Polish PKP CARGO CONNECT and the Turkish Logitrans have partnered to launch a weekly connection between Gliwice, located in the south of Poland, and İzmit, situated some 100 km east of Istanbul.
The company has started offering an intermodal solution that routes cargo from a number of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ports to the Russian ones in Vladivostok and Vostochniy and then dispatches it by rail to St. Petersburg.
As of 1 June, the Danish shipping & logistics company will be offering a daily round trip between the ports of Sheerness (part of Peel Ports London Medway) and Calais.
The fleet of the company's Malta Motorways of the Sea has been reinforced with the purchase of two ro-ros: Eurocargo Catania and Eurocargo Sicilia, each offering 3,300 lane metres of cargo capacity.
Once up and running in 2023, the steelworks-turned-blade production plant will manufacture 107 m-long turbine blades, part of GE's Haliade-X offshore wind turbines.
GEODIS has partnered with Phantom Auto, a company specialising in long-range remote operation software for unmanned vehicles, to develop a fork truck that can be controlled from thousands of miles away.
A reefer train carrying fresh fruits and vegetables was sent from Valencia to Copenhagen via Cologne to test a route that is expected to become a regular weekly connection.
Shenzhen Senior Technology Material will erect a production line, its first outside China, at the Svista industrial estate, with supplies going by rail via the Eskilstuna Intermodal Terminal.
The two countries want to add more volume to the already existing container services (from Klaipėda to Odessa and Kiev), set up one for the transportation of trailers (Klaipėda-Odessa), and rail-connect Kyiv, Minsk, Vilnius and Riga together.
