The Russian company has put in place the Silkway Amber, a container train that connects the Chinese Zhengzhou (Henan province) with Hamburg via the Kaliningrad Oblast.
Kombiverkehr and Color Line have partnered to launch a direct train connection between the Port of Kiel's Norwegenkai ferry terminal and the Italian inland rail freight terminal Verona Quadrante Europa.
The Helsinki-based Nurminen Logistics has put in place a regular, every second week, round trip container rail service, linking the country's capital to Hefei in eastern China.
The Austrian Rail Cargo Group and Nordisk Transport Rail, a subsidiary of the Swedish rail haulier Green Cargo, have put in place a shuttle train between Malmö/Trelleborg and Vienna.
UTLC ERA - a JV between the Belarusian, Kazakhstan, and Russian railways - has kicked off a new and regular container service between Luxembourg and Chengdu.
The HHLA's rail intermodal subsidiary has ordered 10 Vectron multisystem locomotives from Siemens, due for delivery between end-2019 and the spring of 2020.