Kalmar has launched its next-generation Gen 2 battery system for Kalmar electric straddle carriers. The new lithium-ion battery boasts increased energy density, improved thermal stability, and longer equipment runtime. Developed to address growing customer demand for safer, more efficient, and more sustainable material handling technologies, the solution is now available to customers worldwide.
The European Union is gradually tightening regulations on road transport, introducing new technical and administrative requirements. From July 7, 2026, all newly manufactured trucks must be equipped with automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems, and from 2026, new buses and trucks must be equipped with event data recorders (EDRs), which will become mandatory for the entire fleet from 2029. At the same time, from July 1, 2026, vans weighing 2.5–3.5 tons will be treated as trucks in international transport: they are required to use G2V2 smart tachographs and adhere to driver work and rest schedules.
Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) has obtained financing of approximately EUR 690 million to support further works on the 1,300 km railway corridor linking the Port of Lobito with Luau on Angola’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The funding has been arranged with the US International Development Finance Corporation and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
Freight transport operator MEDWAY, part of the logistics company MEDLOG (MSC Group), is expanding its network of rail routes in Europe. On December 14, 2025, the inaugural train service in France, for one of Europe’s largest steel mills, departed between Café and the port city of Dunkirk. The train, carrying up to 3,600 tons of lime and limestone, will operate daily.
On November 27, 2025, the Council of the State of Italy, in its decision, definitively rejected the appeal of FINCOSIT S.r.l. and the other second-place consortium members, upholding the decision of the Regional Administrative Court of Liguria No. 982/2025. Thus, the country’s highest administrative court recognized the tender process for the construction of a new terminal at the Ravano quay in the port of La Spezia as fully legal.
German rail infrastructure operator DB InfraGO, part of the Deutsche Bahn Group, has summarized its 2025 results, reporting infrastructure projects worth over €19 billion. During the year, the company built and renovated 2,173 km of track, replaced 2,065 switches, and modernized 950 stations out of the approximately 5,700 stations in the national network.
Grupa Azoty Koltar has signed an agreement on direct cooperation with Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia). The arrangement was concluded in mid-December and provides Koltar with authorisation to operate through the Jagodyn–Dorohusk and Medyka–Mostiska railway border crossings between Poland and Ukraine.
Solid Port, the operator, has completed a new investment project at the Free Trade Zone (WOC) quay of the Port of Gdansk, constructing two warehouse complexes for storing organic fertilizers. The facilities, built on land leased from the port for a period of 30 years, consist of tent-covered steel structures measuring 40 x 60 meters each with a ridge height of 14.5 meters. The walls and roof are made of durable PVC coating, allowing the warehouses to efficiently store bulk agricultural cargo in big bags with a capacity of 500, 600, and 1,000 kg, stacked up to four high. The total storage capacity at the site reaches 12,160 tons.
LTG Infra, an infrastructure company within the LTG Group responsible for the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania, has announced an open international tender for the design of the railway section from Panevėžys to the Lithuanian-Latvian border. This section is approximately 54 kilometers long. The company emphasized that the selection of a designer is expected to be completed soon, with design work scheduled to begin next year.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov held a working meeting with Jérôme Boyer, Managing Director of Alstom Kazakhstan, to discuss developing investment cooperation within the framework of the objectives set by the Head of State. The parties discussed the current state and future prospects of cooperation between the state and the company in the field of railway engineering.
