For the second year in a row, the month of May is bringing waves of bad weather in northern Italy which disrupt the country’s rail freight industry. A few wagons of a convoy near Borgo Mantovano, a town between Verona and Bologna, was knocked over by the strong winds. “I have never seen freight trains…
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UPS and CargoBeamer expand partnership with new test service
CargoBeamer and UPS are cooperating on an intermodal service connecting Italy to Greece. The two companies ran a successful test which entailed rail transport between Domodossola and Bari, crossing Italy from north to south, and a ferry connection to Patras, in northern Greece. This is not the first test run involving UPS and CargoBeamer. In…
NGOs express concerns over new Italy-China rail freight service
A new rail freight service for the import of agricultural product was recently established from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China to the Italian city of Salerno, near Naples. However, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are saying that some of the cargo coming from the Chinese region may be the…
NGOs express concerns over new Italy-China rail freight service
A new rail freight service for the import of agricultural product was recently established from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China to the Italian city of Salerno, near Naples. However, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are saying that some of the cargo coming from the Chinese region may be the…
‘Rail magnetic levitation can work without infrastructure upgrades’
IronLev, an Italian company specialising in magnetic levitation solutions, has recently carried out tests to apply its technology on existing railways without any need to upgrade the current infrastructure. RailFreight.com had a discussion with IronLev co-founders Adriano Girotto and Luca Cesaretti to better understand how the technology works and how it can be advantageous for…
New Italy-Serbia service for the sake of intermodality
A new intermodal rail freight service connecting the Cervignano Intermodal Terminal, near Trieste, and the Pančevo Dry Port Terminal, near Belgrade, will start operations on 11 May. The service can be seen as the evolution of a block train service which was running between the terminal in Italy and the Indija terminal in Serbia. A…
Hannibal to launch new Italy-Hungary-Romania connection
Hannibal, the multimodal subsidiary of Contship, will launch a new rail freight service connecting Milan to Budapest and Curtici. The company expects to commence operations by the end of this year. The service will connect the Rail Hub Melzo, east of Milan, with the BILK terminal in Budapest and the Arad terminal in Curtici. The…
Italian region near Slovenia shares environmental concerns on Divača-Koper project
The Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG), which borders Slovenia, asked for more details concerning the environmental impact of the doubling of the Divača-Koper line. “The Region considers that technical investigations into the documentation received from Slovenia are necessary”, the region claimed. FVG is asking for more detailed information to be included in the…
Italian waste goes on the rail to Austria to be transformed into fuel
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, says an ancient proverb. This still seems to be applicable when it comes to Italian waste, some of which will be turned into alternative fuels in Austria. Rail Cargo Group (RCG) launched a multimodal service to transport waste from the Maddaloni-Marcianise terminal, near Naples, to Combi Cargo Terminal…
ITA Airways Focuses On North American Market With New Rome To Toronto Flight
The upcoming new route follows the launch of its Chicago service earlier this month.