- Land Transport
The new year 2025, which is slowly getting underway, will once again be challenging for the rail freight transport industry.In France, the state-owned freight transport company SNCF is being largely privatised.The state-owned DB Cargo in Germany is facing staff layoffs.Problems with the inadequate rail infrastructure are hampering rail transport in several European countries.
- Maritime
The Swedish ferry company Stena Line is an important player in European shipping with 40 ships and 20 routes. Its ships are regular guests in Kiel. It was therefore routine that Stena's Germany managing director Mikko Juelich was also present at the annual press conference of the PORT OF KIEL on January 15, 2025.
- Events, Land Transport
"There has never been a truck exhibition with such weighty exhibits in the Technik Museum Speyer," said museum director Andreas Hemmer at the opening on December 20, 2024. "It is aimed at those interested in technology and vehicle enthusiasts alike and offers a comprehensive overview of the history and future of commercial vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Trucks."
- Industry & Infrastructure, Logistics, Services
The Riedbahn in southwest Germany was the first railway line that Deutsche Bahn's infrastructure company DB InfraGO upgraded according to the new general renovation model between July and December 2024. Container wagons rented by the Ermewa company also played a part in the success of the work.
- Industry & Infrastructure, Logistics, Services
Where is Europe heading with the announced Clean Industrial Deal? How can the transformation in the transport sector be made a success? Representatives of the mobility industry discussed this with the Federal Government and the EU Commission at the annual opening event of the German Transport Forum DVF on January 13, 2025.
- Land Transport, Logistics, Services
The German Federal Office for Mobility and Logistics (BALM) has published its moving medium-term forecast for the development of freight transport from 2024 to 2026. The basis is assumptions about geopolitical and economic developments. The authors are employees of Intraplan Consult, the client is the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV).
- Land Transport, Law & Politics, Logistics, Services, Veranstaltungen
The 15th VPI Symposium of the Association of Freight Wagon Owners in Germany took place in Hamburg on January 14, 2025. VPI Chairman Malte Lawrenz described the poor condition of the railway infrastructure as the "biggest pain point in the industry". In front of the 250 participants, the VPI chairman named other key areas of action: securing innovation funding for projects such as ETCS and DAK, reforming the track pricing system, separating InfraGo from the DB Group, securing single wagon traffic and strengthening combined transport.
- Air Transport, Industry & Infrastructure, Land Transport
Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) Airport - the "Central Communication Port" - is one of the most ambitious mobility projects in Poland and Central Europe. The project can now get off to a flying start. The responsible top decision-maker of the Mazowsze Voivodeship (Masovia) announced the concrete decision to localise the CPK at a press conference on January 9, 2025.
- Land Transport
In 1814, the English railway pioneer George Stephenson constructed his first locomotive. It was a locomotive designed for coal transport, named after the Prussian general von Blücher. From Great Britain, the 1435 mm gauge spread throughout Western and Central Europe and large parts of the world outside Europe. But the privatisation of the state railway British Railways in 1994 brought ever greater problems to the once innovative British railway system. Now the railways are being nationalised again. We report on this in detail in a portrait of the British railways in issue 3-4/2024 of CARGO FREIGHT JOURNAL (cover on the left).
- Maritime
The Swedish ferry company Stena Line is an important player in European shipping with 40 ships and 20 routes. Its ships are regular guests in Kiel. It was therefore routine that Stena's Germany managing director Mikko Juelich was also present at the annual press conference of the PORT OF KIEL on January 15, 2025.
- Events, Land Transport
"There has never been a truck exhibition with such weighty exhibits in the Technik Museum Speyer," said museum director Andreas Hemmer at the opening on December 20, 2024. "It is aimed at those interested in technology and vehicle enthusiasts alike and offers a comprehensive overview of the history and future of commercial vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Trucks."
- Industry & Infrastructure, Logistics, Services
The Riedbahn in southwest Germany was the first railway line that Deutsche Bahn's infrastructure company DB InfraGO upgraded according to the new general renovation model between July and December 2024. Container wagons rented by the Ermewa company also played a part in the success of the work.
- Industry & Infrastructure, Logistics, Services
Where is Europe heading with the announced Clean Industrial Deal? How can the transformation in the transport sector be made a success? Representatives of the mobility industry discussed this with the Federal Government and the EU Commission at the annual opening event of the German Transport Forum DVF on January 13, 2025.
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