- 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.
- Law & Politics
The parliamentary state secretary in the German Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport, Michael Theurer, made his first public appearance at an online conference organised by the “Pro-Rail Alliance” with “train influencers”. Theurer came out as a “frequent rail traveller”.
- Land Transport
Under this question we present answers from various personalities in the international cargo and rail sector. Peter Reinshagen, Managing Director of Ermewa SA in Paris, answers today.
- Events
It obviously had to be like this: IT-TRANS, the world's leading conference and trade fair for digitally networked urban mobility, has to be postponed due to the pandemic - from March to April 10th-12th. May 2022.
- Air Transport
CO2-neutral cargo flights, is that even possible? DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo say yes! On January 11, 2022, they welcomed Lenovo, the global provider of hardware technology, as a new major customer.
- Maritime
The new coordinator of the German federal government for maritime economy and tourism is Claudia Müller. The 40-year-old business economist was born in the Baltic Sea port city of Rostock.
- Land Transport
It looks sleek, the Volta Zero - more like a bus with no passenger windows than a truck. Now the vehicle is to support the logistics company DB Schenker in its environmentally friendly climate strategy.
- Uncategorized
In recent months, the network of European railways NEE has sent angry letters of complaint to politicians in order to achieve improvements in rail freight transport. Now there is a new strategy: play!
- Land Transport
The logistics service provider CargoBeamer has been operating a new connection since January 10, 2022: between Kaldenkirchen in Germany and Perpignan on the French-Spanish border.
- Maritime
The trade union ver.di and the Central Association of German Seaport Companies e.V. (ZDS) have reached a settlement at the Hamburg Labour Court. Three more negotiation dates will be agreed by July 22, 2022 to take place by August 26, 2022 and collective bargaining will continue. During this period, no further industrial action will be taken by ver.di with the plaintiffs' employees.
- Land Transport
The portfolio of SBB Cargo's older mainline locomotives will reach the end of their economic and technical life in the coming years. That is why the Swiss company is now renting 35 modern Vectron mainline locomotives from the manufacturer Siemens Mobility.
- Industry & Infrastructure, Land Transport, Research & Development
The city of Braunschweig is a traditional industrial center in north-west Germany. In the immediate vicinity of the main train station is a large research and production plant of the Siemens group with 3,500 employees. It is the largest Siemens site for rail automation worldwide.
- Land Transport, Logistics, Services
In a letter to its business partners, the international freight forwarder OTTO HAALBOOM from Hamburg called on the industry to continue to carry out transport tasks as best as possible despite the ongoing crisis caused by global politics.
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