Rail Freight

TransContainer, Russia's leading container transportation company, has announced its preliminary operating results for the first quarter of 2012. The company’s rail container transportation volumes for the first quarter of 2012 increased by 10.7% to 347,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) compared to...

Ansaldo STS has been awarded a contract to upgrade the rail infrastructure of Xstrata Coal’s Mine Complex in New South Wales. The contract, worth $10 million involves signalling and train control for the Mine Complex in the Hunter Valley. Ansaldo STS will design, construct, test and commission the signalling, communications and train control system for the rail facility using [...]

The rail freight arm of Groupe Eurotunnel, Europorte, has been certified to operate on the Belgian rail network, Infrabel. This safety certification, issued by the SCCIF (the Belgian railway safety authority) allows Europorte to extend its development in Belgium. Since 19...

CN has announced a major locomotive acquisition program to ‘accommodate anticipated traffic growth and to improve operational efficiency, enabling the railway to better serve its customers’. CN will acquire 65 new high-horsepower locomotives as well as 96 second-hand high-horsepower locomotives that will be upgraded. Keith Creel, executive vice-president and chief operating officer, said: “CN’s locomotive [...]

Regional Development Minister Brendon Grylls has announced that $5 million in Royalties for Regions funding had been allocated to commence the planning phase of the long-awaited PortLink Inland Freight Corridor Development Plan. Mr Grylls said the PortLink project – which last week received an additional $2 million commitment in Federal Government funding for the planning [...]

Norfolk Southern has lowered the railroad operating speed limits on certain sections of the Michigan Line between Dearborn and Kalamazoo that handle both Amtrak’s passenger service and Norfolk Southern’s freight service. These lower speed limits have been imposed to reflect the maximum safe operating speeds for the line, given the line’s condition. Safety is of [...]

Euro Carex has completed a test run of the first high speed freight train between Lyon St Exupéry airport and St. Pancras International, travelling via Paris Charles De Gaulle airport. The high speed freight train number 27274 left Lyon-St Exupéry...

QR National has extended its relationship with Southern Cross Fertilisers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL), signing two long-term haulage agreements in north-west Queensland. The Rail Haulage Agreements include the transport of sulphuric acid from Sun Metals and IPL’s Mount Isa plant to Phosphate Hill and formed sulphur from the Port of [...]

Amtrak recently achieved Climate RegisteredTM status by successfully measuring its carbon footprint according to The Climate Registry’s best-in-class program, then having it third party verified and reporting the data on The Registry’s website. With this status, Amtrak takes a major step toward reducing its energy usage, costs and carbon emissions. The Climate Registry is a [...]

Keyline has become the only heavy building materials provider to the rail industry to achieve the Gold Standard of the Freight Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS). The Transport for London (TfL) initiative aims to improve freight distribution in the capital and...