Tag: freight
Environmentally friendly freight transport: Parcels on the rails – car & mobile
How can parcels be transported without polluting the environment too much? The parcel industry is now back on the rails. After the market leader Deutsche Post DHL increased its use…
Rail: Freight traffic: Deutsche Bahn and SNCF need billions
Rail Freight traffic: Deutsche Bahn and SNCF need billions An automatic coupling for freight trains should make freight transport on the rails faster and cheaper. At the moment, however, freight…
New Silk Road: Freight trains from Europe avoid transit through Russia – Economy
The Silk Road is considered the most important foreign policy project of the Chinese President. Container traffic also uses cities like Duisburg. Moscow is now threatening to destroy what Beijing…
Accident in Munich: 89-year-old is killed by a freight train – Munich
In Munich, a pensioner was hit and killed by a freight train at a level crossing on Lerchenauer Strasse. As the fire department announced, the 89-year-old wanted to cross the…
Global Supply Chains: Air Freight Bottlenecks
Status: 03/31/2022 08:11 a.m The blocking of Russian airspace is a burden on German airlines. They now have to fly expensive detours to destinations in Asia. This also affects the…
Freight train carrying humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees in Romania departed from Strasbourg
A freight train made up of eleven wagons left Strasbourg in the early afternoon, from the Port du Rhin industrial zone. A train loaded with goods carrying humanitarian aid for…
Two million euros in damage after the attack on a freight train
Their punch action sparked a wave of outrage. Saturday morning, around fifty environmental activists attacked a freight train carrying several hundred tonnes of wheat at a level crossing in the…
“An act of scandalous food waste”… The attack on a freight train condemned on all sides
A scene worthy of the Wild West. Saturday morning, a train carrying several hundred tons of wheat was attacked by militants in Noyal-Pontivy in Morbihan. Gathered at the call of…
Freight forwarders should get cheaper fuel – Bavaria
Bavaria’s Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (free voters) calls for the logistics industry to be relieved with cheaper fuel. “We need a commercial diesel regulation with a price of around 1.50…
Munich: freight train must brake after throwing stones – Munich
In Munich, unknown persons threw stones at a moving freight train and damaged the locomotive. The 34-year-old engine driver therefore had to initiate emergency braking at around 90 km/h early…