The impact of dramatically increasing energy prices in the rail freight market has the potential to not only reverse modal shift, but also to fundamentally change the composition of the European rail freight sector, says the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA).

High energy prices could reverse intermodal shift, says ERFA

The European Commission has approved a €47.5 million Spanish scheme to support the digitalisation of freight transport services.

EU approves €47.5 million Spanish scheme to support freight transport digitalisation

Amid a continuous growth in rail freight volumes, the Spanish port of Huelva says it wants to have a rail freight link connecting it with Madrid and Zaragoza.

Spanish port urges construction of railway links to Madrid and Zaragoza

British railway network manager Network Rail is running weekly trains from the port of Tilbury to a depot in Daventry, Northamptonshire with the aim of helping imported wine get to the supermarkets for the festive period, reports The Times. Freight trains are also involved in the effort to take off some pressure of the port of Felixstowe by rail and intermodal transportation and carry containers nationwide.

Weekly “wine trains” to help transport Christmas booze stocks amid driver shortage

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) warns that a 200% increase from Network Rail on electricity charges to rail freight operators risks wrecking the industry while jacking up the use of diesel on both rail and road, thereby “making a nonsense of the Government's CO2 targets". Rail freight service provider Freightliner has already decided to temporarily replace electric services with diesel.

RMT: electricity price rise threatens intermodal and rail freight, encourages diesel use

Besides using chilled containers to transport fruit and vegetables from Spain to the UK via rail, Tesco plans to expand its use of rail freight services to bring more goods into the country, CEO Ken Murphy has told Reuters.

High energy prices could reverse intermodal shift, says ERFA

EU approves €47.5 million Spanish scheme to support freight transport digitalisation

Spanish port urges construction of railway links to Madrid and Zaragoza

Weekly “wine trains” to help transport Christmas booze stocks amid driver shortage

RMT: electricity price rise threatens intermodal and rail freight, encourages diesel use

Tesco expands use of rail freight to alleviate driver shortage difficulties

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New lower rates for truck transport by rail through Brenner

Project of the century ready for trial operation. First trains in the new railway tunnel through the Alps

A fully automated truck will change container transhipments in Germany?