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Britain needs a new rail freight strategy

  • Simon Walton
  • November 28, 2025
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Britain’s rail freight sector runs on a strategy that is almost a decade old. The Department for Transport’s Rail freight transport strategy, published in 2016,…

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Data of the week: Overland rates rise as maritime markets weaken

  • Nikos Papatolios
  • November 26, 2025
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In October 2025, the Maxmodal Silk Road Index (MSRI) continued its steady upward trend, increasing by 1.23% for 20-foot containers and 0.91% for 40-foot containers.…

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Road transport: friend or foe?

  • Guest authors
  • November 21, 2025
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It is no secret that rail stakeholders like to bring up road transport policies. They point to seemingly preferential treatment for trucks, which makes the…

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  • Freight Forum
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  • Rachel Reeves
  • Rail freight
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  • Simon Walton
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An opportunity for a Budget for freight

  • Simon Walton
  • November 21, 2025
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Next week’s Budget offers the government a genuine opportunity to chart a long-term course for freight. Whether it chooses to take that opportunity is quite…

  • Data of the week
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  • Poland
  • Rail News

Data of the week: The unusual Polish rail freight cost picture in 2024

  • Guest authors
  • November 19, 2025
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The financial numbers for 2024 show that rail freight and the infrastructure management segment in Poland took losses, with the passenger sector performing much better.…

  • Alexandre Gallo
  • DB Cargo France
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Political situation in France ‘not helping’ rail freight sector, says senior industry figure

  • Guest authors
  • November 18, 2025
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France’s ongoing political crisis means the country’s rail freight sector remains in the dark as to the level of state support it can expect next…

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  • Deutsche Bahn
  • european commission
  • Germany
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How the walls started closing in on DB Cargo

  • Guest authors
  • November 17, 2025
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The recent departure of Sigrid Nikutta as CEO of DB Cargo marked the culmination of a long period of financial problems at the German rail…

  • Agnieszka Wasilewska-Semail
  • In Depth
  • PKP Cargo
  • Poland
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‘Simply saying that rail is the greenest mode of transport is not enough’

  • Marco Raimondi
  • November 17, 2025
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Agnieszka Wasilewska-Semail, President of Polish PKP Cargo, highlighted the ineffectiveness of European policies in facilitating the modal shift to rail, claiming that national frameworks can…

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  • Simon Walton

Sparks fly. Energy costs are costing rail freight

  • Simon Walton
  • November 14, 2025
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It is a truth, uncomfortably acknowledged, that any chief executive with a grasp of rail freight economics, must be in want of a lower electricity…

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  • ERA
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  • European Union Agency for Railways
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Data of the week: The challenges facing ERA

  • Guest authors
  • November 12, 2025
  • 0

The European Commission has evaluated performance of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA). While positive on the whole, the Commission identified some points where…

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