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Adif president Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña has resigned, a day after Transport Minister Óscar Puente quit over the deadly Urda high-speed crash. With Spain’s rail leadership upended just weeks before the 29 November snap election, what does the shake-up mean for freight, from Adif’s new 2026–2030 funding deal to the R…
A one-day general strike in France today over the rising cost of living is expected to bring some disruption to rail freight, according to one major operator. The strike is expected to be particularly widespread across the French rail network and also highly-localised in certain areas such as the Greater Paris region,…
British energy major BP has raised about $1.06bn by selling part of its stake in Norwegian oil and gas producer Aker BP as it continues efforts to strengthen its balance sheet. The company sold 31.6m shares, representing around 5% of Aker BP’s total issued share capital, for NOK311 per share. The transaction generated…
Combined transport (CT) volumes in Europe fell by 1.23% in the third quarter of 2026 compared to the same period last year, according to UIRR. After a brief stabilisation in the spring, the sector is back in negative territory, and its members now expect a negative business climate for the next 12 months. UIRR said in…
#fwtv_b3Jz7TlMY .fwtv-panel{border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:18px;border-radius:6px;line-height:1.6}#fwtv_b3Jz7TlMY .fwtv-panel p{margin:0 0 12px}#fwtv_b3Jz7TlMY .fwtv-note{font-style:italic;color:#666;margin-top:16px;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0} Forget millions of test miles—it’s about the *right* m…
GXO Logistics is seeing accelerating demand for its contract logistics services, particularly in North America, as data centers, aerospace and defense customers fuel a record sales pipeline. During a Wednesday earnings call, CEO Patrick Kelleher said the company’s renewed commercial strategy is generating larger contr…
“I was told in parliament the other day that the rail freight companies are, quote, ‘not in the most organised shape to drive growth’ – and I disagree”, the UK Minister of Transport Peter Hendy said. At the unveiling of Freightliner’s new logo and loco, Hendy underlined the importance of private players and the need f…
Türkiye is not exactly known for having a bustling and thriving rail freight industry. Regardless, its rail sector seems to be on a modest growth trajectory with major infrastructure projects and a recently liberalised market. RailFreight.com spoke with the country’s first private operator, Körfez Ulaştırma, about its…
It’s proving very difficult to clear the 23 October Barking derailment. The intermodal freight train that came off the rails, blocking the East London station, has done more damage than originally estimated. Recovery and restoration, according to stakeholders, will take until at least next week. However, 10 November i…
Walmart has agreed to expand its commercial agreement with Symbiotic Inc. to automate an additional 25 U.S. regional distribution centers. Symbiotic ( NASDAQ: SYM ) is an AI-powered warehouse automation and robotics company headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Walmart ( NASDAQ: WMT ) will initially invest about…
#fwtv_idDTHLionrA .fwtv-panel{border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:18px;border-radius:6px;line-height:1.6}#fwtv_idDTHLionrA .fwtv-panel p{margin:0 0 12px}#fwtv_idDTHLionrA .fwtv-note{font-style:italic;color:#666;margin-top:16px;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0} The freight market is experiencing an inflationa…
FedEx Corp.’s recent strategy to focus more on specialized services for companies in industrial sectors with complex logistics requirements, beyond basic parcel delivery, is paying dividends, especially in the aerospace and automotive sectors. The freight transportation giant last week described how it secured a serie…
Loamy, a Los Angeles startup that sells operations software to produce growers, packers, and distributors, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Zeal Capital Partners. The round, announced Oct. 27, brings the company’s total funding to $10 million. Once a load misses a buyer’s spec after it ships, the grower ha…
Italy’s draft budget law for 2027 allocated €5.43 billion to the national rail network over the next two years. The funds will be sent to infrastructure manager RFI, with the Terzo Valico project getting the largest share of the funds with €1.6 billion. According to article 77 of the bill, the ‘Services’ part of the p…
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are planning a joint intermodal terminal at the Baku International Sea Trade Port. In addition, the two countries want to launch regular high-capacity ferry services between the ports of Alat and Kuryk, dubbed “Superferry” in Azerbaijan. Both projects target freight on the Middle Corridor. Th…
A surprisingly wet October has brought much-needed relief to the Panama Canal, with Gatun Lake recovering to near its historical average despite warnings that a powerful El Niño could trigger another prolonged drought. New research from Ursa Shipbrokers, drawing on Panama Canal Authority data, shows Gatun Lake average…
#fwtv_LtCkVDuHfw .fwtv-panel{border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:18px;border-radius:6px;line-height:1.6}#fwtv_LtCkVDuHfw .fwtv-panel p{margin:0 0 12px}#fwtv_LtCkVDuHfw .fwtv-note{font-style:italic;color:#666;margin-top:16px;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0} ZET Scale, a shipper alliance, just placed the larg…
The German association of freight wagon keepers VPI has called on the budget committee to reverse planned funding cuts in 2027. The subsidy for track access charges (TAC), for example, would drop to about €200 million, while the TACs themselves are set to rise substantially. The German freight wagon keepers’ associati…
Spain’s Boluda Shipping has agreed to acquire Samskip in a deal aimed at building a broader European short-sea and inland freight network , potentially giving U.S. businesses more integrated options for moving cargo beyond Europe’s major ports. The transaction is expected to close Jan. 1, 2027, subject to regulatory a…
Ukrainian Railways (UZ) plans to acquire up to 60 used locomotives over the next six months. A World Bank grant of $100 million (about €90 million) should help pay for them. Russian attacks have damaged 605 Ukrainian locomotives so far, the government says. The Ukrainian national rail operator UZ is pursuing several r…
Hungary plans to increase funding for railway track and station renewals to HUF 80 billion (€218m) in 2027, from HUF 30 billion this year, while launching a wider investment programme intended to modernise the national network over the next decade. Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy announced the proposed …
A new federation bringing together Indian seafarer unions, welfare organisations and maritime charities has been established in Chennai with plans to coordinate action on crew abandonment, unpaid wages and seafarer safety. The International Transport Employees Federation (ITEF) was formed on October 31 following a mee…
Despite a record number of individual fiscal measures, the UK Budget, delivered by Chancellor John Healey, offered few new incentives for the rail sector. Rail freight can point to an extension of the reduced red diesel duty rate, while the wider railway receives a review of infrastructure costs and several regional i…
AIT Worldwide Logistics announced late Sunday night it has acquired Australian freight forwarder Connor Anderson International, giving the fast-growing Chicago-based freight forwarder a significant foothold in the Oceania market and the ability to capitalize on the boom in data center construction there. Connor Anders…
Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week in Borderlands Mexico: Cabotage enforcements threatening cross-border trucking; Nuevo León slashes Colombia Bridge toll fees 50% to boost cross-border trucking; and Walmart plans $400M…
#fwtv_nMjMlyeXCAo .fwtv-panel{border:1px solid #d0d0d0;padding:18px;border-radius:6px;line-height:1.6}#fwtv_nMjMlyeXCAo .fwtv-panel p{margin:0 0 12px}#fwtv_nMjMlyeXCAo .fwtv-note{font-style:italic;color:#666;margin-top:16px;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0} SAIA President & CEO Fritz Holgrefe breaks down …
Alain Bedard, the CEO of TFI International, had been highly critical of his company’s U.S. LTL operations back in 2024, at one point referring to some of its practices as “stupid.” As recently as April, he was far more optimistic about the segment that was built largely through the TFI acquisition of UPS Freight in 20…
Postal operators in Norway and Germany are adding significant parcel capacity and making operational adjustments to handle an expected flood of packages and gift cards in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Posten Bring, the state-owned postal services and logistics provider in Norway, has installed hundreds more parce…
Every carrier with a safety technology program eventually learns the same lesson: the hardware is the easy part. Cameras can be mounted, collision mitigation can be specified on new tractors, and telematics can be switched on. What’s harder to install is the belief, among people who spend their working lives behind th…
While Mexican truckers have suspended a nationwide strike that disrupted highways across 19 states, industry leaders warned that demonstrations could resume if federal and state authorities fail to address grievances that include cargo theft and violence against drivers . The suspension follows negotiations between Me…