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  • SWISS is to add the Geneva Cornavin to Zurich Airport route to the ‘Airtrain’ rail services which it offers in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Railways. The new services should help keep Western Switzerland optimally connected with SWISS’s Zurich Airport hub even after the timetable changes that the airline has had to make in response to the coronavirus crisis. In extending the Airtrain network to Geneva, SWISS is also offering its customers more options for seamlessly combining multiple modes of transport.

  • Iran has reached agreements with Russia and India for transiting the mentioned countries’ commodities through its rail network, ILNA reported quoting the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known as RAI) as saying.

  • Alstom says it will “take into account the consequences” of the operating and financial developments at Bombardier Transportation in forthcoming takeover discussions after the company reported an adjusted Ebit loss of $383 million in the second quarter of 2020.

  • STADLER’s IT system was targeted with a cyber-attack last week, the company has announced, with malware used to steal information.

  • FINANCIAL EDGE, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2020 ISSUE: Too much ink (printer ink in the modern era) has already been spilt trying to find an angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the national and global economy, the consumer, the business segments most impacted by the terrible crisis (think aerospace, restaurants, the arts), the front line healthcare workers risking their lives daily and the retail, delivery and factory workers keeping aspects of life in the United States (e.g. food supply) relatively normal.

  • Maersk has launched its first rail service from Xi’an, China to Izmit, Turkey. This new route, which is part of Maersk Intercontinental Rail service network, will shorten transit time in comparison to the sea route between the countries. The rail route takes 16 days. Various locations in both China and Turkey have been linked, with a diverse range of pre- and on carriage services.

  • The Indian Ministry of Railways has suspended passenger railway operations until 17 May due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

  • IRAN’s Ministry of Roads and Urban Development has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mapna to construct an electrified 510km line between Ahwaz and Isfahan.

  • UIC has been continuously monitoring the performance of the Eurasian rail freight transit market. In 2017, the study carried out in partnership with Roland Berger Consultancy focused on opportunities for freight stakeholders and addressed the Northern route development as well as the Southern routes as illustrated opposite.

  • The outbreak of the coronavirus has led to cancellations of rail freight services all across China. The largest impact is on Wuhan, where the outbreak is most serious, but also in other provinces restrictions are in place.