Railways
All aspects of the relationship between ports and railways. This is mainly railway infrastructure within ports used to deliver and collect cargo from ships. It also includes national and international rail networks used to transport goods from ports to markets in Europe. Also includes EU rail transport policies and regulations (TEN-T). Railways often form parts of international transport corridors.
Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...
Tarragona port to host conference on Mediterranean Corridor
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Tarragona port will host a meeting to analyse the connections of the harbour to the Mediterranean Corridor on...
A Coruña port calls on government to finance railway line to outer harbour
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The mayor of A Coruña, Xulio Ferreiro, today asked the central government to donate the necessary...
Spain’s Renfe Mercancías to lift traction capacity at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Santander port will see the traction capacity of state-run freight rail operator Renfe Mercancías in its...
Spanish Environment Ministry okays A Coruna port’s outer harbour rail project
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Environment has given the green light to the study of rail access to outer harbour Punta...
Valencia urges government to provide better port links to Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Valencia regional government public works councillor María José Salvador recommended that the central...
Slovenian prime minister insists on Koper-Divaca railway project
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Slovenian prime miniser Miro Cerar said he insists on the planned upgrade of the Koper-Divaca railway line...
Hannibal launches Melzo-Trieste intermodal service
Trieste, Italy June 20, 2017 – Hannibal, in partnership with Alpe Adria S.p.A., is launching a new intermodal service between Melzo (Milan) and Trieste,...
Russia’s Freight One organises cargo shipment for Knauf at Taganrog port
Taganrog, Russia (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – Russian logistics company JSC Freight One organised the first complex cargo transportation by sea from the...
TEN-T – Connecting Europe – Core network corridors
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Networks) envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways,...
Adif, Valencia port to allocate funds to connect Sagunto port to Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) and Valencia port...
Rail freight corridor North Sea-Mediterranean Sea helps Marseille development
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – The rail freight corridor North Sea–Mediterranean Sea (RFC North Sea-Med) is one of the nine most...
Metrans opens new rail hub in Budapest linking north and south Europe
Budapest, Hungary (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – Metrans, the intermodal subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), is further expanding its...
Badajoz logistics platform to be completed by 2020
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 –The Plataforma Logística do Sudoeste Europeu (PLSWE – The Southwestern European Logistics Platform) in...
Basque Country, Castile and Leon regions lobby for shorter Madrid-Bilbao port route
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Basque and Castile and Leon regional government officials have called on the central government to initiate a...
Serbia, China, Hungary start talks on transport corridor to Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – Serbia, China and Hungary have agreed to start talks as soon as possible on the modernization of the transport...
Andalusia government official calls for better rail links to regional ports
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – Gaspar Llanes, Secretary General of Economy of Andalusian regional government, stressed yesterday that...