The HHLA's rail intermodal subsidiary has ordered 10 Vectron multisystem locomotives from Siemens, due for delivery between end-2019 and the spring of 2020.
RB Rail, the organisation overseeing the project, has selected IDOM to provide design and supervision services for the 71 km- Pärnu-Rapla and the 78 km-long Kaunas-Ramygala sections.
The company has leased out three brand-new freight locomotives manufactured by the Polish Newag, which will be chiefly used to carry dry bulk goods on the routes connecting southwest Poland with OT's sea terminals in Gdynia and Świnoujście.
Effective from 1 January, trains on the Duisburg-Gądki/Pruszków route stop at the CLIP Intermodal Container Terminal in Swarzędz instead of Gądki and at PKP Cargo Connect's facility in Warsaw-Praga in place of Pruszków.
The Russian rail container carrier and terminal operator has purchased the inland Logistika-Terminal (LT) from the First Container Terminal (FCT), part of Global Ports, for approx. €20m.
The kombi service has been in place since end-August, initially offering three runs per week between the Port of Lübeck and the TriCon terminal located in Nuremberg in northern Bavaria.
LOGOPER, a Moscow-based third-party logistics service provider, has set up a regular rail container service that links the Port of Bronka with the capital of Russia.
FESCO and Hyundai Glovis have set up a regular sea-rail container service on which spare car parts and other components are transported from South Korea to Hyundai's factory in St. Petersburg.
The company has added a sixth weekly round-trip to its service that loops between CLIP's terminal in Swarzędz and Europoort's in the Port of Rotterdam.