1600 gross ton train on Turkish rails
Trains weighing 1600 gross tonnes have started to run on Turkish rails where maximum gross ton was 1300 tonnes until this month.
Electrification revolution in railways
A silent transpormation is taking effect in Turkish State Railways (TCDD) where currently expenses are far more than income.
Which company should get which licence in rail freight?
Not every company can do railway transport from now on.
Every one of three ro-ro loads used train
Every one of three Turkey-Trieste loads (container, semi-trailer, truck) of Un Ro-Ro got on train.
Big discount in container demurrage fees
Turkish State Railways (TCDD) announced big discount in container demurrage fees in TCDD terminals.
New route for China-Turkey trains
The container trains between China and Turkey/Europe have started to use the new route.
Rail freight rings alarm bells
Rail freight volumes in Turkey had been between 20-30 mn tonnes since 2007 and after reaching to peak of 29 mn tonnes in 2014, had dropped to less than 26 mn tonnes in 2015.
Baku Tbilisi Kars railway project
The scope, route, targets and history of Baku-Tblisi-Kars railway project which connects Kars (Turkey) to Baku (Azerbaijan) and Central Asia via Tblisi (Georgia):
Decrease in international freight continues
International freight by rail in Turkey continued to decrease in 2015.
Konya high speed train station project
The scope, location, connections, targets and history of new high speed train station under construction at Konya:
