Category: Multimodal systems

DB Schenker Rail to provide new connection to Turkey

17/06/2013 | Comments (0)

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 [...]

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Strategy of Russian port infrastructure development is obtaining approval of federal authorities

11/06/2013 | Comments (0)

The Strategy of Russian port infrastructure development up to 2030 is obtaining approval of federal executive authorities, IAA PortNews journalist cites Acting Director General of FSUE Rosmorport Igor Levit as saying at the meeting of the Marine Council of Saint-Petersburg Government. According to Levit, the Strategy is to obtain an official status soon. FSUE Rosmorport [...]

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RZD and GEFCO ship over 2,000 vehicles by rail

11/06/2013 | Comments (0)

Russian Railways and the logistics company GEFCO have jointly shipped more than 2,000 vehicles weighing 4,025 tonnes produced by Sollers-Far East LLC in Vladivostok to western Russia since the beginning of 2013. Serial production of Toyota’s Land Cruiser Prado SUV began at a plant in Primorsky Territory in Russia’s Far East at the end of [...]

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LDz Cargo and Kedentransservis sign collaboration on container transport services

11/06/2013 | Comments (0)

LDz Cargo’s subsidiary LDz Cargo logistika has signed a cooperation agreement with the Kazakh logistics company Kedentransservis. According to the agreement, LDz Cargo logistika becomes Kedentransserviss official agent in Latvia with the right to conclude contracts on the organization of freight transport in the name of Kedentransservis. LDz Cargo hopes the contract will get them [...]

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Turkey: Reysas Logistics wants to enter the rail transport market

10/06/2013 | Comments (0)

Turkish ReysasTasimacilikveLojistikTicaret Company announced that its railway logistics unit ordered 60 platform wagons from the Turkish manufacturer TUDEMSAS. The contract is worth EUR 3.5 Million. ReysasDemiryoluTasimaciligi aims to tap high demand for logistics services and add to its portfolio transportation services upon the forthcoming liberalisation of the country’s railway sector. The company will use leasing [...]

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