Etiket: Freight
Collision between freight train and SUV claims five lives in Florida | Abroad
The accident happened in Plant City, which is located about halfway between Brandon and Lakeland, Florida. According to local sheriff Chad Chronister, the driver of the SUV drove into the…
Truck driver ignores red signal and rams freight train in Antwerp port | Antwerp
An accident occurred between a truck and a freight train on the Scheldelaan towards Zandvliet on Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported, but the fire brigade had to be called…
Gotthard tunnel to open again for freight trains next week
The Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland will reopen on Wednesday 23 August for rail freight transport. But passenger trains will continue to be diverted for the time being because the damage…
Two women travel hundreds of kilometers through Germany on a freight train
The two women were hiding under the truck trailer. A woman (small photo above) crouched under the axle of the trailer. Small photo below sat the other woman. Beside her…
Air freight sector Schiphol is gloomy
Rats and mice sometimes roam in the canteen and toilets. The equipment used is very outdated. And several employees were seriously injured by unsafe situations on the platform, slaloming with…
Freight train carrying grain derailed in Crimea after explosion, presumably due to ‘interference from outsiders’ | Abroad
In a statement to Telegram, Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian governor of the annexed Crimea peninsula, said the grain wagons had derailed and no one was injured. Train traffic between the…
Freight personnel at Schiphol sound the alarm: work too dangerous, unhealthy and unsafe
Cargo employees at Schiphol are very concerned about their safety and consider the work at the airport dangerous and unhealthy. Research by trade union FNV shows that 1 in 10…
Railway associations doubt the federal government’s traffic forecast for freight traffic
BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – The federal government’s long-term traffic forecast for freight transport by road and rail is, from the point of view of several railway and transport associations, “too road-fixated”…
Freight trains drive directly into the shed in the port of Zeebrugge
Freight trains drive directly into the shed in the port of Zeebrugge Loading and unloading is now faster. Nicolas Dehaemers, co-manager NDQ Zeebrugge: “That is certainly a milestone in our…
Fifteen migrants found ‘suffocating’ in freight train at US-Mexico border, two dead
Two dead migrants were found on a freight train in the US state of Texas on Friday. This has been announced by the local police. US border guards found 15…