GERMAN intermodal operator European Cargo Logistics (ECL) has expanded its services between the port of Lübeck and Duisburg to accommodate lorry semitrailers that cannot be loaded by crane, using a unique parallel loading and unloading system developed by CargoBeamer, Germany.
UNION Pacific (UP) has unveiled the production version of its Arrowedge tapered container which it plans to put into service this month on a double-stack container train between Joliet, Illinois, and Long Beach, California.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on August 2 to mark the start of the start of construction on a new €300m intermodal terminal at Inzersdorf south of Vienna.
THE first freight train from Zhengzhou in eastern China to the Billwerder intermodal terminal in Hamburg arrived at its destination on August 2, just 15 days after setting off on its 10,214km journey.
BRITISH railfreight operator Freightliner is set for a major expansion of its international activities after announcing on June 19 that it has acquired Rotterdam-based intermodal operator ERS Railways from Maersk Line for an undisclosed sum.
THE Swiss Federal Council has approved a scheme to create and finance a project which will allow 4m corner-height semitrailers to be carried on the Gotthard line.
SWISS intermodal operator Hupac achieved a small profit of SFr 4.4m ($US 4.5m) last year, up 65.6% on 2011, despite a drop of 7.8% in total revenues to SFr 454.5 million.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) railfreight unit SBB Cargo announced on April 2 that it will take over operation of most of DB Schenker's transalpine intermodal traffic between Germany and Italy from the end of this year, ousting BLS Cargo, which is 45%-owned by DB Schenker.
GERMAN intermodal operator Kombiverkehr is launching a total of 32 new services in the first quarter of this year to meet a significant increase in demand.
ALPINE Rolling Motorway (AFA), the piggyback shuttle service between France and Italy operated jointly by SNCF Geodis and Trenitalia, has gained 52 new customers in the six months since the 12.2km Mont Cenis tunnel was cleared for trains carrying 4m-high semitrailers.
