The current SCI Verkehr study «European Rail Freight Transport» analyses the factors affecting market shares, types of goods and corporate strategies, as well as emerging opportunities.
Rail freight operators could win big from a surge of Chinese electric vehicles into Europe, with Shenzhen-based BYD outselling Tesla in the market for the first time.
Preparatory activities and tender processes for the main works on the new double-track freight line between Nuremberg and Eltersdorf are currently underway
Container freight spot rates shot up on the transpacific trades this week, with an immediate surge in demand following news of a new 90-day hiatus in the China-US trade war.
Weakening demand is eating into European road freight operators’ profitability this year, with contract and spot rates declining through the first quarter.
The Shandong China-Europe freight train Russia hub was officially inaugurated at the Bely Rast Terminal Logistics Center in Moscow, Russia, in March, aiming to enhance Shandong’s logistical capabilities in Russia and its surrounding regions.
A divergence in container spot freight rates between the Asia-Europe and Asia-North America trades emerged this week, with pricing declines into Europe getting sharper, while rates to North America strengthened, week on week.
While road freight flows uninterrupted across European borders, electric freight rail continues to be limited by infrastructure bottlenecks at several border crossings.
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30.04.2025
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
The recent signing by China and Germany of the United Nations Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Rail marks an important step towards achieving efficient rail freight carriage across Europe and Asia, and beyond.
Speaking at the Central Asia-European Union summit, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced his readiness to increase exports to the EU for 175 commodity items worth over $2 billion
At a meeting of the National Kurultai, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presented plans for the development of the country’s transit and transport infrastructure
The Kazakhstan-China Logistics Center in Xi’an, opened with the participation of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, is demonstrating impressive results a year after its launch
Kazakhstan’s national railway operator Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) plans to increase railway transit through the Kazakhstan-China railway terminal in Xi’an by 65% to 456,000 tons by 2025, according to Rail-news.kz.
MSC and the Ocean and Premier container shipping alliances are withdrawing some transpacific and Asia-Europe services in a bid to to stem falling freight rates, according to consultancy Linerlytica’s report this week [The Loadstar].
The Channel Tunnel, which opened more than 30 years ago as a major pathway for trade between the UK and continental Europe, remains significantly under-used for rail freight [The Loadstar].
Europe-bound Chinese rail freight is expected to become a whole lot more expensive as Beijing looks to address multiple looming economic crises [The Loadstar].
A meeting of the management of JSC NC KTZ and LLC GC Port Lianyungang was held in Beijing, where the results of joint work for 2024 were summed up and key areas of partnership for the future were identified.