The European Council has adopted a general approach on the Weights and Dimensions Directive (WDD), further decreasing the hopes of the rail freight sector for…
Europe is looking to boost its capacity to move military equipment and troops in large numbers. No single mode of transportation can do that alone,…
Oana Gherghinescu, the new executive director of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), held her first keynote speech for the rail freight industry at…
European economies are struggling in many ways. One of the underlying reasons is that energy prices are high, which is putting a strain on the…
When politicians talk about rail, you can usually be sure that they are talking about passenger trains. For that reason, an invitation to attend a…
Rail associations from all over Europe are claiming that the German infrastructure manager DB InfraGO is “failing to provide sufficient quality (and) reliability”. The parties…
The rail freight market in the European Union has been liberalised since 2007. As a result, new companies have been able to enter the market…
The implementation of the European Train Control System (ETCS) and the other components of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) continues to wreak havoc…
The European Rail Freight Association (ERFA) voiced its concerns regarding the “continuous changes and instability of ERTMS specifications”. If things don’t change promptly, the project…
As the European Commission, Parliament and Council of the European Union are negotiating on the content of the Railway Capacity Management Regulation, the rail freight…
Pushing ahead with the implementation of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) would be like “shooting ourselves in the foot”, warn Czech and Slovak rail associations ŽESNAD…
The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union has proposed a new definition of combined transport. There is a lot of disagreement about…