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Indian trade unions are going ahead with a strike planned for Friday despite government concessions.

VTG boosted first-half profit the group benefited from lower financing costs and synergies from the acquisition of a rival company.

JNPT is the first major, or public, port to take advantage of a new policy under the Sagar Mala infrastructure development program.

DP World views containerized rail as a bright spot in the emerging Asian economy.

The Chinese Olympic team wasn’t the only group of visitors from the manufacturing powerhouse in Brazil this month.

State-owned Container Corporation of India’s net earnings slumped by double digits in the first fiscal quarter.

Although Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has maintained shippers are increasingly turning to rail instead of drayage, an analysis of the latest port traffic data collected by JOC.com paints a different picture.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is boasting of seamless gate operations and greater efficiency, bringing smiles to shippers.

Deutsche Bahn’s restructuing efforts to restore profitability are beginning to show results.

Russia’s container trade continues to rebound, sparking an intense competition between truckers and railroads.

Container Corporation of India is aggressively ramping up its intermodal reach into Krishnapatnam Port.

Angry Mexican teachers are blockading some of the country's railways, leaving thousands of containers stranded.

India's road, rail and inland waterway systems have suffered from years of neglect and underinvestment, adding to freight delays and logistics costs.

The original deadline for binding bids was April 26, but Greece’s privatization agency has pushed it back three times.

Trains are a critical tool that can be used to relieve port congestion, but in Europe they face a number of challenges.

A new containerized cargo transportation firm able to compete with global majors may soon appear in Russia.

DP World is continuing its search for investment opportunities along the China-Europe Silk Road.

Reliable, time-guaranteed freight service is becoming the new mantra for Indian Railways.

The potential impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative is starting to emerge.

Russia is making it easier for shippers to secure spot containerized rail transport.

A container block train bound for Duisburg in Germany pulled out of the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi at the weekend, the latest milestone in the development of China-Europe container rail links.

Switzerland will open the world’s longest rail tunnel June.

India’s port connectivity infrastructure, which is a source of regular frustration for shippers and logistics providers, should show some improvement in the coming years.

In issuing its guidance on how exporters need to meet the SOLAS container weight rule, Israeli stakeholders have said they will double-check the verified gross mass declarations of containers.

The government of Ukraine plans to significantly reduce tariffs on container shipments via the trans-Caspian international transport route.

Fiscal year 2015-16 earnings tumbled at India’s largest port-based logistics provider, Gateway Distriparks Ltd.

Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway, is pressing ahead with plans to list its DB Schenker logistics unit on the stock market.

Intermodal logistics giant Container Corporation of India is moving heavily into privately operated Krishnapatnam Port, lured by new mainline service additions and strong volume gains at the minor, alternative cargo gateway on India’s east coast.

Despite the Brazilian recession, rail operator and logistics company Brado Logistica expects new shipper contracts and services to drive containerized rail volume up at least 15 percent this year compared with 2015.

In a major surprise, China’s Cosco has decided not to submit a bid to acquire Greece’s state-owned railway.

China’s Cosco, Russian Railways and Italy’s state-owned railway, Trenitalia, are expected to submit initial bids for Greece’s national rail operator by today’s deadline.

Container Corporation of India this week lifted its port congestion surcharge on containerized freight railed to inland distribution points after its parent company Indian Railways canceled the decree that created the fee.

Shippers moving their goods through Moscow could see their transportation costs rise 15 to 20 percent through a new ban on containerized cargo transiting through the Russian capital.

TransContainer, Russia’s leading containerized rail operator, plans to make more investments in its network after posting a 22.6 percent year-over-year decline in net profit to 2.8 billion rubles ($60 million) even as revenue increased 16.2 percent to 42.5 billion rubles.

Since the beginning of this year volumes across Russia’s shipping industry have begun to show signs of recovery after a dismal 2015 in which Western sanctions and the low price of oil devastated the country’s transportation firms.

Russian railway monopoly RZD is offering significant discounts to shippers in a bid to remain competitive with over-the-road trucking, which carries the largest share of Russia’s cargo volumes.

The government of Ukraine is struggling to replace transshipment container traffic that has been lost to the country’s ongoing economic crisis caused by its civil war and Russian sanctions.

Moscow’s share of overland transshipment traffic fell to 35 percent in 2015 from its typical figure of 75 percent, according to Russia’s Ministry of Transport, as the country’s overland logistics network reorients itself away from the country’s capital toward China and the Asia Pacific.

The movement of people and goods in and around Brussels ground to a halt Tuesday after a series of terror attacks rocked the Belgian capital. Brussels Airport has been shut down, all flights in and out cancelled, and public transportation throughout the city has been put on lockdown, sparking wide reports of gridlock.

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, on Tuesday celebrated the arrival of its first double-stack freight train from Container Corporation of India’s newly-opened “multimodal logistics park” at Kathuwas in the northern state of Rajasthan.