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…
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…
Eurotunnel has confirmed it has frozen planned UK freight projects. The French owners have cried foul on what they describe as “unsustainable” British taxation. The…
In the spring of 2025, the Swiss parliament revised the Freight Transport Act. The Federal Council, the country’s cabinet, is now elaborating on that revision…
The European Commission has proposed a Regulation with measures to enhance the transport of military equipment, goods and personnel across the EU. It should be…
Rail Logistics Europe (RLE), the structure grouping SNCF’s rail freight subsidiaries, has opened a register of interest for the auction of 26 locomotives put up…
A reopening of the Muslim Union Railway, a newly introduced name for the Pakistan-Iran-Türkiye line, is right around the corner. Talks between the countries are…
The EU’s Council and Parliament have come to a provisional agreement on the much-anticipated Capacity Regulation. A step forward for international rail freight, one should…