Eurogate Intermodal (Egim) has acquired the German transport company Deisser Group, based in Stuttgart and specializing in container shipping in the Neckar region. The deal is effective retroactively from 1 January 2025 and aims to strengthen Egim’s position in the combined rail-road transport segment, as well as to increase the sustainability of the service in the face of market instability.
Preparatory activities and tender processes for the main works on the new double-track freight line between Nuremberg and Eltersdorf are currently underway.
Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure is considering plans to restore the Gyumri-Kars railway line, which was closed in 1993. In November 2024, at the Akhurik-Akyaka border crossing, representatives of Armenia and Turkey discussed technical details of resuming the route and opening the border.
Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC (ADY) Rovshan Rustamov held a meeting with Pakistani Minister of State for Railways Bilal Azhar Kayani. The talks took place within the framework of the activities of AZCON Holding, which manages ADY.
By 2032, Poland is preparing to open one of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects – the Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), located 40 km west of Warsaw. This ambitious project combines a modern airport with an initial passenger capacity of 40 million people, with the prospect of expanding to 100 million, a high-speed rail network and new road connections. The airport includes two 3.8 km long runways located 2.5 km apart, as well as a central terminal connected to the railway station and bus station.
JINGDONG Logistics (JD Logistics) has launched its first direct cargo air service between Wuhu, China and Hanoi, Vietnam. The new route is an important addition to the company’s existing network in Southeast Asia, which already covers routes from Shenzhen to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. The flights will operate 2-3 times a week with a cargo capacity of up to 20 tons, mainly for the transportation of garments, home appliances, furniture and mechanical parts from East and Central China, as well as for the import of Vietnamese products to China.
By the end of 2025, the Belgorod-Dnistrovsky port plans to begin shipping transit cargo from Asia to the European Union via a new railway route through Moldova and Romania. According to Igor Bilyk, First Deputy Director of the port, the route to the Romanian city of Galati is 320 km long, of which 182 km pass through Ukraine, 129 km through Moldova and 9 km through Romania.
LTG Infra, the infrastructure division of the Lithuanian railway group LTG, has announced a new tender for the construction of embankments and engineering structures on the Berčiūnai – Joniškielis section. This 12.4 km long section will be part of the large-scale Rail Baltica project, the goal of which is to build 114 km of high-speed railway in Lithuania by 2025.
The first Kazakhstan-China transport forum was held in Astana, bringing together more than 300 representatives of the business community and logistics companies of both countries. The key event was the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation between the Kazakh port of Kuryk and the SPG group of ports of Qingdao.
A year after cargo-partner became part of the NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS group, the companies are combining their transport capacities within the ONE Road project. The cooperation covers Central, Eastern and Western Europe, offering customers flexible solutions for the delivery of groupage, partial (LTL) and full (FTL) cargo. The network is based on cargo-partner’s key hubs in Vienna, Žory, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sofia, as well as the Nippon Express infrastructure in Western Europe.
