PSA Singapore announced that it has achieved a record throughput of over 40 million TEUs in 2024, significantly exceeding the company’s previous record of 38.8 million TEUs set for 2023. To celebrate the achievement, PSA held a celebration event bringing together employees, union representatives and management.
In February 2025, SJSC “Latvijas dzelzceļš” (LDz) will announce a tender for the Riga-Liepaja passenger rail infrastructure modernization project. The project includes design and construction. In order for interested suppliers to be able to familiarize themselves with the procurement conditions and offer their recommendations, LDz organized an online consultation on 7 January 2025.
The German Seaport Association (ZDS) has called on the German government to adopt a more ambitious port policy and increase funding. At the annual press conference in Hamburg at the end of November, ZDS President Angela Titzrath said that the economic and geopolitical challenges of recent years were putting the industry under severe pressure. In the first half of 2024, German ports handled 136.29 million tonnes of cargo, only slightly more than in the same period last year. Container throughput increased by 3.3%, but Titzrath noted that these figures should be seen in the context of the disastrous 2023, the worst in two decades.
The railway aims to establish a connection between Kashgar in China, passing through Torugart, Makmal, and Jalalabad in Kyrgyzstan, before reaching Andijan in Uzbekistan.
The Port of Gdansk has announced a tender for a 26.7-hectare site with access to the Rudowy Pier, next to the Baltic Hub, the largest container terminal on the Baltic. The site is located in the deep-water part of the port, known as the Northern Port, and includes a permit for the construction of a cargo handling and storage terminal with the necessary technical infrastructure.
Since 1 January 2025, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has been using 100% renewable energy for its transport operations. This is the final step in the company’s long-term strategy to reduce its environmental footprint.
A freight train with 50 containers departed from the dry port of Xi’an to the capital of Uzbekistan. This is the first trip of the year within the framework of the accelerated route “China – Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan”, aimed at developing rail transportation.
The Italian Ministry of Enterprise and Production has approved the sale of the renowned aviation company Piaggio Aerospace to the Turkish manufacturer Baykar. Founded in 1884, Piaggio Aerospace is known as the “Ferrari of the sky” thanks to its P.180 Avanti business jets and aircraft engines.
As of 1 January 2025, METRANS has completed another stage of the Adria Rail integration, centralising customer service and operational activities of the Rijeka – Belgrade Inđija service at the METRANS /Danubia/ headquarters in Dunajská Streda, Slovakia. Now, the processing of transport orders, management of daily operations and invoicing will be handled by a dedicated team at the company’s headquarters.
JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy successfully completed 2024, demonstrating stability in cargo transportation and fulfillment of strategic objectives. Cargo turnover reached 272 billion ton-kilometers, container transit increased to 1.4 million TEU, and transportation volumes through Kazakhstan-China joints increased by 12%, reaching 31.8 million tons. Exports from Kazakhstan also showed an increase of 8.8%, amounting to 13.7 million tons.
