A 30 kilometres stretch of a railway line between Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne and Sablé-sur-Sarthe, located in the Mayenne département in centre-west France, is being rebuilt in order to re-launch rail freight services, which will handle around 80,000 tonnes of bulk goods annually, with trains operating at speeds of up to 40 kilometres/hour. Work began in September last […]
Category: Infrastructure
‘Dark clouds’ gather over German rail renovation plan
German rail freight association Die Güterbahnen sees ‘dark clouds’ in the rail renovation plan proposed by DB and the federal government. The association identifies a number of issues in the June 2022 plan that it expects to hinder rail traffic disproportionately. The renovation plan aims to renovate 40 rail corridors that total over 4,000 kilometres […]
Belarus reconstructs railway to St. Petersburg, securing sea export route
Belarus has started reconstructing its railway in the direction of St. Petersburg in Russia. A joint railway project with Russia aims to secure an export route through the port of the Russian city for Belarus. The staunch Russian ally has lost alternative routes westward since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to […]
Russia and China see record rail freight volumes in 2023
Russia and China have reached a new record rail freight volume between the two countries. The total freight volume going through Russia’s Far East border crossings grew by 26 per cent from 2022, amounting to nearly 44 million tonnes. This number includes traffic to and from Mongolia. The total freight volume among all transport modalities […]