GREECE-SOUTH KOREA-UNITED STATES
Greece to get new rolling stock production facility
Greece is not known as a locomotive or wagon manufacturing hub, but things might change with a cooperation with the US Government and a South…
BALKAN CONNECTIONS
Bulgaria, Greece and Romania to look for funding for Thessaloniki-Bucharest corridor
“Bulgaria, Greece and Romania will request funding for a joint project to modernise the Thessaloniki-Sofia-Bucharest railway line”, according to the Bulgarian ministry of transport Grozdan…
BALKAN CONNECTIONS
Greece, Bulgaria and Romania establish new Corridor Platform
“A framework for regional cooperation aimed at enhancing cross-border transport infrastructure and its planning and implementation, as well as facilitating seamless logistics”. This is what…
Tempi train disaster
Extremist group bombs Hellenic Train HQ for 2023 collision
The offices of Greek national railway operator Hellenic Train were the target of a bomb attack last Friday night. The attack was claimed by a…
HARSIA report
Tempi Valley accident report issues recommendations to Greek and European entities
The causes behind the disastrous rail accident in the Greek Tempi Valley in February 2023, which claimed the lives of 57 people, are many and…
HARSIA report
Greek railway accident: inexperience the cause, systemic issues the underlying factors
The tragic rail accident that shook Greece in February 2023, killing 57 people, continues to wreak havoc in the country with protests and riots in…
failed mission
From recovery to derailment: Greece-North Macedonia line closed for two months
What seemed like a somewhat easy locomotive recovery procedure led to a derailment which will keep the Skopje-Thessaloniki line, between Greece and North Macedonia, closed…
what did the freight train carry?
Evidence domino frames cargo as key factor for Greek railway tragedy
Almost two years after the tragic railway accident that cost the lives of 57 people and scared Greek society, the puzzle pieces seem to fall…
UPS and CargoBeamer expand partnership with new test service
CargoBeamer and UPS are cooperating on an intermodal service connecting Italy to Greece. The two companies ran a successful test which entailed rail transport between…
Greek railway accident: more evidence surface over ‘lost container’
The investigation into the fatal railway accident involving a passenger and freight train in Greece a year ago continues on three fronts. Some of the…
A year after the Greek tragedy: Mystery covers freight train’s load
It has been something more than a year since the late night of 28 February 2023, when Greece experienced the deadliest railway accident of its…
Kombiverkehr increases connections to Greece and Turkey via Trieste
The beginning of 2024 brings more frequent connections between Germany, Greece and Turkey via the Italian port of Trieste. Kombiverkehr increases its rail services between…