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Forest owners association Mellanskog has awarded Green Cargo a contract to transport containerised woodchips which previously moved by road.
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Federal railway authority EBA has approved the operation of ICE4 high-speed trains with ETCS, Siemens announced on November 5. This will enable their use on the Berlin – München high speed line from the December 9 timetable change.
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Leasing company Akiem has placed two firm orders for Bombardier Transportation to supply a total of 33 Traxx electric locomotives. The orders include more MS2 multi-system and AC3 locomotives, as well as Akiem’s first DC3 locomotives.
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European Commission (EC) has decided to refer Bulgaria to the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) for failing to implement EU railway safety legislation.
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Czech open access passenger operator Leo Express is to restart its Praha – Kraków service on November 30. The service had been launched in July 20 but was suspended and replaced by coach services from October 9 because engineering works on the Polish section of the route were causing extended journey times.
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Akiem and Bombardier Transportation have signed two contracts under frame contracts to deliver a total of 33 BOMBARDIER TRAXX locomotives.
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The MSC-owned rail freight operator Medway is to build a logistics centre in the Portuguese city of Famalição, close to the northern border with Spain. In addition, it plans to launch a rail freight service between Portugal and Germany in 2019.
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Joint-stock company United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Rail Alliance (UTLC ERA) in cooperation with a freight forwarder – Belintertrans (BTLC State Enterprise), has developed a technology to form and forward full-length container trains from Belarus to China. A new waypoint is Lupolovo station, from where a 41-feet container train loaded with powder milk was sent to Chungking on 24 October.
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Rolling stock leasing company Akiem and mobility technology leader Bombardier Transportation have signed two contracts under frame contracts to deliver a total of 33 Bombardier TRAXX locomotives.
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Soon, Siemens will start tests with a new type of train for regional services: the Mireo. Launching customer for this lightweight is the land of Baden-Württemberg – that as of 2020 will have 24 units available to operator DB Regio.
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Next year, 373 million people will find themselves on Dutch National Railway Company trains (dubbed NS), and for all sorts of reasons.
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Police evacuated the main railway stations in Barcelona and Madrid during Wednesday morning’s rush hour after a belt buckle in the shape of a hand grenade triggered a security alert.
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A Chinese-built train, a locomotive, on German tracks, as seen in Freiburg on 07.11.2018.
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The New Silk Road forms a threat to western airports, rather than sea ports, according to ING’s Economic Office.
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The intermodal division of Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has expanded its freight offering with three new non-stop TransFER connections between the Netherlands and Hungary, Austria and northern Italy, and Turkey and Poland.
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The European Commission announced on November 8 that it had decided to refer Bulgaria to the Court of Justice of the EU for failure to fully transpose and implement Directive 2004/49/EC on railway safety.
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Transdev has been awarded a contract in excess of €1.5 billion for the operation of Hannover’s regional rail network – the largest regional rail contract in the history of Transdev Germany.
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Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has reached its ambitious goal this month of handling a total of 400 trains between Asia and Europe in 2018.
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The SNCF-owned multimodal transport and logistics operator Geodis has launched a multimodal service between Spain and Germany. A train will shuttle between Hendaye, on the border between Spain and France and Metz, on the border between France and Germany.
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HHLA rail subsidiary Metrans and TransContainer will intensify rail operations on the New Silk Road on the route via Ukraine and Slovakia. The companies signed a letter of intent for closer cooperation in this regard on 1 November.
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Transport operator Transdev Group has secured a contract worth more than €1.5bn to operate the 385km-long regional rail network in Hannover, the capital city of the German state of Lower Saxony.
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A 'rail motorway' service carrying unaccompanied lorry trailers between Calais and Torino was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Channel port on November 6. This is the fourth route to be launched by SNCF’s rail motorway subsidiary VIIA.
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National railway CFM has named GE Transportation as the winner of a contract to supply 12 locomotives for use on passenger and freight services. The 2 982 kW diesel locomotives are scheduled to be delivered from early 2020.
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On the 2nd of November 2018, a new speed record for Denmark was set by the Ringstedbane test train with Hector Rail 242 502 and DB Systemtechnik 182 506.
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Transdev announced an order for 64 Stadler Flirt electric multiple-units on November 7, after its NordWestBahn subsidiary was confirmed as the winner of the contract to operate Hannover S-Bahn services from December 2021 until June 2034.
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