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10 more trains per week in Liège to boost the modal shift

Marco Raimondi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:39:08 +0000

The Belgian city of Liège is going to see more freight trains running thanks to a number of new international services launched in the past few weeks. Connections from the Liège Trilogiport and the Liège Logistics Intermodal terminals to Slovakia, Romania and Italy were recently introduced for a total of 10 trains per week.
The service from the Liége Trilogiport signals the return of rail freight services at the facility, as Port de Liège said. The initiative connects the Trilogiport to the Stellantis plant in Trnava, Slovakia. This 651-metre train will run once a week in cooperation with Hödlmayr Group, bringing 277 cars to Belgium every week, removing 2,000 trucks from the road.

To Italy and Romania

The other connections concern the Liège Logistics Intermodal terminal, a terminal managed by Novandi. The service to Romania is not necessarily new, but its starting point was moved to Liège from Genk, as our sister publication Flows mentioned. This train will depart three times a week with traction provided by RTB Cargo, with intentions to increase it to seven.

The one going to Italy is run by CargoBeamer, a specialist in the rail transport of non-cranable semi-trailers. The link is between the intermodal terminal and Domodossola and Parma. These trains will run six times a week and are open to all the main types of loading units. The aim of these services is to pick up some of the volumes lost by the discontinuation of the rolling highway service between Italy and Germany, CargoBeamer specified.

A CargoBeamer train running between Liège and Domodossola. Image: © CargoBeamer

CargoBeamer jumps into market gap with new cross-alpine service

Dennis van der Laan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:07:01 +0000

Rail operator CargoBeamer has launched a new tri-weekly service between Liège, Belgium and Domodossola, Italy last week. The launch follows the discontinuation of a Italy-Germany Rolling Highway in December. CargoBeamer hopes to (partially) jump into the market gap left by the cancelled service, the company tells RailFreight.com.
“We are opening Liege–Domodossola at an important moment for transalpine intermodal traffic, as the transport of non-craneable semi-trailers across Switzerland undergoes a paradigm shift”, explained Boris Timm, COO of CargoBeamer. “In addition to entering the highly promising Belgian market with this new connection, we are also supporting forwarders seeking alternatives to the discontinued Rolling Highway service. Liège–Domodossola is our first step in filling this gap.”

The new service will operate three weekly round-trips, but CargoBeamer is planning to increase the frequency to 6 weekly round-trips by Q2 2026. The company is also looking to extend the service into other parts of northern Italy.

CargoBeamer says that its new service accommodates all major loading units, including craneable and non-craneable semi-trailers, refrigerated trailers, ADR and tank units, containers, swap bodies, and specialized equipment. Traction is provided by BLS Cargo.

In Belgium, operations are handled at the Liège Logistics Intermodal Terminal, while trains in Domodossola are processed at the DB Cargo Transa / FLS Terminal, the rail operator specifies. The service enables CO2 emission savings of 86% compared to diesel road transport.

The cancelled Rolling Highway

The introduction of this new Liege-Domodossola service is partially a response to the cancellation of the Rolling Highway, CargoBeamer tells RailFreight.com. The company can pick up a part of the volume previously serviced by the Rolling Highway service, despite offering a different route and not transporting trucks and truck drivers. CargoBeamer sees a gap in the cross-alpine market for semi-trailer transportation, especially non-craneable ones, and is looking to start more services in the region in the future.

As RailFreight.com reported in December, operator RAlpin had to cancel its Rolling Highway service in part due to the impactful construction works in Germany. CargoBeamer admits that the works will also affect its operations on the Liège-Domodossola route, although emphasises that it likely won’t pose “any major challenge”. It won’t have the same detrimental effect.

The Rolling Highway likely faced increased cancellation rates as a result of the construction works, because it could not be as flexible in its operations due to its responsibility to transport trucks and their drivers. CargoBeamer offers unaccompanied connections, which means that it can more easily run delayed trains and keep operations going.

New multimodal air-rail-road hub under development in Liège

Stuart Todd — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:14:25 +0000

Liege Airport and intermodal terminal operator Liège Logistics Intermodal (LLI) have announced a strategic partnership focusing on the creation of a major multimodal air-rail-road hub in the vicinity of the Belgian city. The hub, owned by economic development agency SPI, currently handles nine trains a week to Italy and three weekly trains from China.
First-phase development entails investment totalling 22 million euros and running to 2030, to modernise and expand the existing combined road-rail hub operated by LLI, located 1.5 kilometers from the airport and in close proximity to both the branch and high-speed railway lines that connect Liège to Brussels. Work will include bringing the rail tracks up to European standards, installing gantry cranes and upgrading access roads.

Second-phase work will focus on the addition of new access points and roadway modifications, the construction of a new goods storage and processing area and a horizontal piggyback loading platform. These developments will enable the rail-road platform to handle up to 45 trains a week, representing an annual capacity of 180,000 containers. Under the terms of the partnership, Liege Airport will acquire a 10 % stake in LLI.

Strategic hub

The partnership with LLI has been forged within a broader European context that is conductive to the growth of rail and river transportation, in alignment with the objectives of the European Union’s Green Deal and its sustainable mobility strategy, Liège Airport noted. Furthermore, the increasing costs of road transportation may make rail freight an even more attractive option in the coming years.

Laurent Jossart, CEO of Liege Airport underlined that the Airport’s strategic vision focuses on positioning itself as a provider of multimodal and sustainable (freight) solutions spanning air, road, rail, inland waterway and ocean transport modes. “This partnership with LLI represents the first tangible manifestation of this vision,” he added. Liege Airport is Europe’s fifth biggest hub for air cargo traffic and handles a broad range of goods that includes perishables, pharmaceuticals, express, e-commerce, medical and humanitarian aid and live animals.