The construction of the Brwinów rail terminal, located near Warsaw, has begun, with the start of operations slated for Q3 2022.

The German rail freight hauliers have built a coalition with over 230 forwarders to shift more cargo from roads to railways, with the aim of saving the environment some 50mt of CO2 emissions by 2030.

The train set - carrying electronics, auto parts, and epidemic-prevention supplies - will cross Duisburg on its way and arrive at the final destination after 21-22 days.

By combining rail and sea transport, DB Cargo Eurasia is testing an alternative route from China to Finland to the current setup that sees trains passing the Buslovskaya-Vainikkala border between Russia and Finland.

Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg and Port Express Transport Company have put in place a bi-weekly train service, running every Tuesday and Thursday.

The shipping major has connected, on a weekly basis, the Port of Odessa with Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.

The new route goes via the Manzhouli-Zabaykalsk and Brest-Małaszewicze border crossings, with trains running to Europe once per week.

A fully-loaded train left Xi'an on 6 March for the Russian Baltic Port of Kaliningrad, where the goods will be loaded onto a vessel heading for the Danish Port of Fredericia.

The multinational consultancy has won the safety, reliability, availability and maintainability (RAMS) contract, awarded by RB Rail AS, a consortium that's in charge of setting up the standard-gauge freight & passenger 1,000 km-long rail line from Estonia to Poland.

Commissioned by the Polish Material Reserves Agency (a governmental institution which purchases, stores, and distributes strategic reserves), Maersk has organised two rail shipments to Małaszewicze - from Xi'an and Yiwu.