Rail & barge

The Queensland Competition Authority will be considering Aurizon’s business case for rail maintenance in two days time.

By the end of 2019, the Chinese steelmaking city of Tangshan has plans to end the movement of its bulk commodities by truck and instead shift the transportation of all of its iron ore and coal from ports to steel mills by rail.

BNSF Railway Company requests two-year file extension for Positive Train Control deadline.

Thyssenkrupp has supplied new quadruple rail car dumpers and shiploaders to the Caofeidian coal terminal in China.

The Rail Delivery Group Freight Board has appointed DB Cargo UK’s Chief Executive as Chairman of the Board.

Aurizon should resume its normal maintenance programme and end the coal export impasse, says the Queensland Recourses Council.

The strike by Canadian Pacific rail workers has ended after reaching a tentative agreement.

After being unable to agree with management on new contract terms, Canadian Pacific rail workers have gone on strike.

The reforms are intended to help grains and other crops move more quickly to market after transport problems impacted both Canadian National Railway Co (CN) and smaller rival Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP) during the winter.

Ceres Global Ag has received BNSF site certification status and CTPAT certification at the Northgate Terminal.

Railway Board notifies all zonal railways to prioritise power plants while loading coal.

The project concerns the autonomous operation of trains at the group’s iron ore business in Western Australia.

AUS$4 billion from Queensland exports and AUS$500 million in annual royalties paid by the industry to the Queensland Government will be cut following Aurizon’s reduction in the number of its coal trains.

On 12 May, the first Silk Road freight train from China arrived at the Port of Antwerp.

Domsjö Fiber and Green Cargo sign a collaboration agreement which will see Domsjö Fiber transporting its pulpwood via more environmentally-friendly rail shuttles instead of by road.