Luka Koper has announced the start of one of the company’s largest and most significant projects for the coming years. The state tender is for the construction of a container berth and additional storage facilities on the northern part of Pier 1. The deadline for applications is 30 September 2024.
The Malmporten project has started in Sweden, which will transform the port of Luleå in the north of the country into a deepwater port. Initial dredging work has already begun, with plans to deepen the port area to 15 meters.
As part of the agreements between the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on cargo transportation along the China-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan route, the container train covered a distance of 4,486 km in just 5 days. The freight train departed from the Chinese port of Xi’an, was reloaded at the KTZE Khorgos Gateway dry port and headed through the KTZ network to Saryagash station, and then to the final point – Tashkent station, the main transport hub of Central Asia.
Kombiverkehr KG is expanding its European intermodal network with a new route between Belgium and Spain. The first train on the Atlantic route between Antwerp and Madrid will depart on September 3, 2024. This offers freight forwarders and logistics companies the opportunity to use this important 1,600-kilometre corridor for environmentally friendly rail transport. Example: a round trip with a load of 25 tonnes saves 5.1 tonnes of CO2 (84 percent). The trains will run twice a week: from Antwerp on Tuesdays and Fridays, from Madrid on Wednesdays and Sundays. Containers, swap bodies and dangerous goods (classes other than 1 and 7) can be transported. The transit time will be between 48 and 72 hours, depending on the day of the week.
Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan Marat Karabayev and Minister of Infrastructure of Estonia Vladimir Svet held a working online meeting to discuss prospects for cooperation in the field of port infrastructure. More than 60 representatives of businesses, seaports and exporters of the two countries took part in the video conference.
In July, Greenpeace published a study, “Connection Failed”, analysing existing and potential direct rail and air connections between major European cities. The organisation called on the European Union and national governments to increase investment in rail infrastructure, as rail transport significantly reduces CO2 emissions.
Kedentransservis, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan Railways, and the German transport and logistics company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) have signed an agreement to provide freight forwarding services and develop multimodal terminals in Kazakhstan and abroad.
On July 22, HHLA TK Estonia received the first container ship running on raw methanol in the Estonian port of Muuga. The Eco Maestro of X-Press Feeder operates on the Green Finland X-PRESS (GFX) route, starting from Rotterdam, passing through Antwerp, Kotka, Helsinki (Vuosaari) and finally arriving at the port of Muuga, after which it returns to Rotterdam.
cargo-partner, part of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., is expanding its electric truck testing program in Europe. Following successful pilot projects in Austria and Slovakia, the initiative will also cover Slovenia from June 2024. The electric truck testing program is part of the company’s sustainability strategy “ROAD (Reducing Our Atmospheric Dependencies)”.
In the first half of 2024, investment in China’s transport sector reached 1.7 trillion yuan (US$234.4 billion). In 2023, this amount was 3.9 trillion yuan (about US$548.7 billion), including 764.5 billion yuan (about US$108 billion) for railway infrastructure, up 7.5% compared with 2022.
