Rail freight volumes on Rhine-Alpine Corridor declined by 3.2%
Traffic volumes on the Rhine-Alpine rail freight corridor (RFC) decreased by 3.2 per cent in 2017, compared to the previous year. On the contrary, overall…
Economic damage of Rastatt incident more than 2 billion Euros
The Rastatt incident that paralysed rail freight traffic during a seven-week interruption of railway operations on the Karlsruhe-Basel line of the Rhine-Alphine Corridor has resulted…
Netherlands saw plunge in rail freight traffic 2017
The Netherlands witnessed a decline in overall freight traffic on its railway network last year. Rail freight volumes through the Port of Rotterdam dropped with…
Hupac goes Eurasian after strong response to Rastatt
The now-infamous Rastatt shutdown failed to stop Swiss intermodal operator Hupac increasing its rail shipments by over three per cent in 2017. This rail success…
TACs: ‘Era of charging based only on cost allocation is over’
Track Access Charges expert Justina Hudenko believes the era of charging based only on cost allocation is over. The Chair of LatRailNet, the allocation & charging…
Rail freight 2017 & ahead – by ERFA’s Julia Lamb
To say it’s been a challenging year for the rail freight sector, not least in Europe, is an understatement. While the immediate effects of the…
DB Cargo boss reflects on an ‘eventful’ year
Raimund Stüer, head of Europe’s largest rail operator DB Cargo, believes the coming year will mean adapting to the changing needs of the logistics sector.…
DB Netz CEO regrets Rastatt effects
The head of German rail network manager DB Netz has expressed his ‘regret’ for the knock-on problems caused to rail freight stakeholders by this summer’s…
‘DB Netz must take full liability’ over Rastatt, says rail alliance
An alliance of influential European rail bodies have called on German rail infrastructure manager DB Netz to ‘take full liability’ over this summer’s Rastatt landslip…
EC transport leaders move to avoid a Rastatt repeat
The European Commission is laying down future contingency plans to avoid a repeat of the chaos caused to continental rail freight operations for nearly two…
The Rastatt incident: lessons learnt and steps to take
The Executive Board and Management Board of the Rhine-Alpine rail freight corridor met on Wednesday in Milan, Italy to discuss the ramifications of the seven…
Karlsruhe-Basel section reopened, industry demands compensation
The disrupted railway line between Karlsruhe and Basel is open for traffic from today, after nearly two months of limited capacity on Europe’s main north-south artery.…