On 19 June, the consortium of Transferoviar Grup and Donau Finanz GMBH & Co KG announced its decision of withdrawing from the process of CFR Marfă’s privatisation and said it was entitled to contest the sale procedure to the responsible authorities in Romania, mediafax.ro informs. Thus, Grup Feroviar Român is the only company in the [...]
The main challenge now faced by the Baltic States and Russia as their key partner is to attract transit cargoes from China, said Andris Maldups, Director of the Transit Policy Department of the Latvian Ministry of Transport. He emphasised that the problem is not the competition with developed routes passing through Poland and Germany, but [...]
In the first five months of the year, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai carried 1.9 million passengers, 4.5% more than in the same period last year. The increased flow of passengers was determined by the train travel promotion measures. More than 422,000 passengers travelled by train in May. The company carried more than 19.7 million tonnes of freight, [...]
As of September, DB Schenker Rail will provide a new conventional and container rail freight transport service between Germany and Turkey (Halkali-Istanbul), called “Bosporus Shuttle”. For the beginning, the connection will be made by three pairs of trains and then by five pairs of trains. The new service will consolidate the transport offer between Western [...]
The road-railway bridge across the Danube linking the towns of Calafat and Vidin is inaugurated today, 14 June, 13 years after the launch of the project. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, Romanian Minister of Transport Relu Fenechiu, BNR Governor Mugur Isărescu, European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn, Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, as well [...]
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