PD Ports is welcoming a new shareholder. Pontegadea Inversiones, the Spanish investment firm best known for its ties to global fashion retailer Inditex, has agreed to acquire a 49% stake.
Ocean Network Express is sharpening its focus on intra-European services, deploying more vessels and equipment for handling out-of-gauge cargo without disrupting sailing schedules.
China has become the workshop of the world and remains eager to share the fruits of those labours. Rail plays a small but increasingly important role in getting some of those goods to market.
Once completed, the 18km immersed tunnel will connect Rødbyhavn in Denmark with Puttgarden in Germany, establishing a permanent road and rail link beneath the Fehmarn Belt waterway.
A fierce storm and a major ferry port knocked out of action for over a month. A parliamentary investigation into has uncovered that a critical piece of UK infrastructure is surprisingly fragile.
There is a diverse portfolio of Ro-Ro operations that keep the wheels of European trade rolling, connecting islands and making short sea routes out of long inland alternatives.
The UK is very much divided over rail freight operations and ambitions. The need to encourage modal shift is widely recognised, but differing demands call for a different approach in each of the four nations.
Rail freight company Direct Rail Service (DRS) has begun a trial with ultra-low rail wagons to carry high cube containers between Teesport and Trafford Park…