Rail News

Russian Railways, Siemens and Sinara Group have entered into a collaboration deal on producing locomotives.

Russian Railways, Tatravagonka and TransContainer have signed an agreement to cooperate on the scientific and technical development, manufacturing and testing of high-speed platforms mounted on die-welded bogies.

Kansas City Southern has partnered with CANACERO, the national chamber of the iron and steel industry in Mexico, to prepare for the growth of the Mexican steel industry and develop strategies for...

American Railcar Industries is opening a railcar maintenance facility in Brookhaven, Miss., in Lincoln County, expanding its presence in southwest Mississippi, according to Mississippi’s Gov. Phil Bryant, local officials and ARI officials...

Intermodal Cartage Group, part of IMC Companies, has promoted two current team members to new roles and named two new hires at its Nashville, Tenn., office.

The Greenbrier Companies today reported net earnings in the second quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending Feb. 28, 2013, totaled totaled $13.8 million, jumping 33 percent compared with $10.4 million in the previous quarter.

State-owned Container Corporation of India has launched a regular intermodal rail service between the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal at Cochin Port and Bangalore, a southern hinterland destination, following an appeal by terminal operator DP World.

Norfolk Southern has appointed Tom W. Schnautz as assistant vice president of research and advanced technology.

Ocean Spray Cranberries reduced its carbon dioxide emissions along with transportation costs through a pair of supply chain changes to Florida, a company official told a trade and transportation conference.

Mexico-based Grupo TMM reported a net loss of 202.5 million Mexican pesos (about US$16.5 million) in the fourth quarter of 2012, declining from a net loss of $3.2 million in the same quarter in the previous year.

NORFOLK, Va. — For Norfolk Southern Railway, this is the year in which its major initiative to grab domestic truck freight, a result of hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of planning, gains steam.

The size of the revenue-earning freight railcar fleet in North America rose by 1.1 percent in 2012 to 1.5 million units of equipment, but has not recovered to pre-recession population levels...

NORTH BALTIMORE, Ohio — CSX Transportation’s headquarters are in sunny Jacksonville, Fla., but the beating heart of its intermodal network is here under overcast skies in northwest Ohio.

In January, February and March, The Greenbrier Companies has received new orders for 5,400 railcars valued at approximately $575 million.

ConGlobal Industries has teamed up with CakeBoxx Technologies to provide a range of depot, container yard and transportation services for CakeBoxx Technologies throughout the U.S. and Mexico.

The European Commission has launched a €66.7 million (about US$85.2 million) call for proposals to fight road congestion and make freight transport greener in the framework of the Marco Polo program...

Demonstrating the importance of intermodal rail to Southern California, the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday broke ground on an $84 million project to add tracks and a support yard for on-dock rail operations.

At the end of 2013, representatives of inland shipping operators, seaport terminals, depots, shipping companies, hinterland terminals, the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure...

Globaltrans’ revenue surged 22 percent in 2012, but profit dipped 2 percent as the Russian rail freight operator sharply increased borrowing to finance acquisitions that boosted its share of the fast-growing domestic cargo market.

India’s Ministry of Railways has decided to reduce haulage charges for containers transported by rail in privately owned railcars, effective April 1.

Work on $88 million worth of construction for three segments of the Port Mackenzie Rail Extension project in Alaska has kicked off.

Toll Intermodal has opened its interstate freight forwarding facility in Kewdale, an intermodal hub in Perth in Western Australia.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, and David Vitter, R-La., ranking member of the...

Construction has begun on the Pioneer Project, which will expand the New Town transloading facility in North Dakota, increasing rail capacity in the Williston Basin...

Norfolk Southern reported profit in 2012 was $1.75 billion, dropping 8.7 percent from $1.92 billion in 2011.

In April, MacAndrews will set up a refrigerated train service linking Murcia with Balboa in Spain, in order to reinforce its current European 45-foot container reefer multimodal service.

CEVA Logistics has launched a new China to Europe railway service.

Florida East Coast Railway recorded a net loss of $13.3 million for the full year of 2012, improving $24.0 million, or 64 percent, from a net loss of $37.3 million in 2011.

The Intermodal Transportation Institute’s board of directors at the University of Denver has elected two new members: Mathieu Faure from Canadian Pacific Railway and Keith Reardon from Canadian National Railway.

A supply chain and logistics provider serving major U.S. fast food and sit-down chain restaurants said its customers could double the share of surface freight shipped via railroads to as much as 9 percent in the coming years.

Container lines’ rapid exit from intermodal chassis ownership is spawning several equipment supply models that emphasize flexibility and a larger role for lessors and truckers.

The Greenbrier Companies has hired Adrian Downes as senior vice president and chief accounting officer.

Canadian National has appointed three vice presidents as part of the company’s executive changes, according to Jim Vena, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Class I railroad.

Indian Railways reported its revenue-earning freight traffic from April 2012 to February 2013 was 911.53 million metric tons, increasing 35.93 million metric tons, or 4.1 percent...

The origins of the looming deadline to implement a railroad crash-avoidance technology mandate and a shipper petition to require mandatory reciprocal switching are completely different.

Genesee & Wyoming has appointed Greg Pauline as managing director of Genesee & Wyoming Australia, its Australian branch.

Indian Railways reported earnings from April 2012 to February 2013 were Rs. 111984.89 crore (about US$20.6 billion), rising 20.4 percent compared with $17.1 billion during the same period in the previous year.