Sitav, an Italian rolling stock manufacturer, is launching a new hydrogen-powered freight locomotive in 2025. The company is planning to reveal the locomotive to the…
Rail can boast of being the most environmentally friendly transport modality. Nevertheless, not all trains are exactly emission-free. On non-electrified tracks, trains may still need…
A consortium of industry players is running some tests for the Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) in Sweden, to assess the performance of the devices under…
The Italian state-owned operator Mercitalia Intermodal has placed an order with PJ Monitoring (PJM) to implement the WaggonTracker system on roughly 600 of their wagons.…
The deployment of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on-board equipment in Sweden should soon receive a boost as the government agreed to create…
The European Rail Freight Association (ERFA) voiced its concerns regarding the “continuous changes and instability of ERTMS specifications”. If things don’t change promptly, the project…
Raillogix and Railrelease, both part of the Rotterdam-headquartered Rail Innovators Group, offer diesel-free reefer transportation. RailFreight.com reached out to Raillogix to have a chat about…
Dutch-based software company RailCube is strengthening its position in North America with the latest acquisition of Spark TS. “Expanding to North America has been a…
Mercitalia Fast was a pilot project launched in Italy for high-speed rail freight services. However, the experiment was quite unsuccessful and now the adapted wagons…