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  • POLISH coal mining company JSW and national rail freight operator PKP Cargo have agreed to cooperate to research, analyse and possibly produce new types of hydrogen-powered freight wagons and shunting locomotives.

  • Alstom presented today the first Citadis X05 tram, which will run on all three new lines Caen la mer (Normandy), in the presence of Joël Bruneau, President of Caen la mer, Rodolphe Thomas, First Vice-President of Caen la mer in charge of transport, travel and infrastructure, and Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud, President of Alstom France. 23 trams were ordered by Caen la mer in November 2016. The first deliveries will begin in October 2018 with entry into commercial service scheduled for September 2019.

  • SAUDI Railway Company (SAR) saw a 139% increase in the number of passengers on its trains during the second quarter of 2018 compared with the same period last year with an extra 46,000 passengers using the North-South Railway between Riyadh and Hail.

  • The first TIR operations from Iran to Pakistan signal the start of TIR in Pakistan and the activation of the Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad trade corridor.

  • On International Women's Day, 8 March, Southampton-based ferry operator Red Funnel appointed Alice Duncan as its first female captain. Ms. Duncan started her cadetship at the age of 18, and joined Red Funnel five years ago.

  • 2018 has been terrible for the crude oil tankers, as freight rates and the fleet utilisation rate fell to a record low level, BIMCO reports. Namely, after a strong 2015, good 2016 and a decent 2017, loses came back to the industry, after three years with profits.

  • Germany’s shipping major Hapag-Lloyd has dismissed reports that its French counterpart CMA CGM proposed a merger between the parties.

  • As part of the continuous consolidation trend in the container shipping industry, France's CMA CGM, which is currently the third biggest container line, has reportedly made an exploratory approach to German Hapag-Lloyd, the world's fifth line, over a possible form of merger, Reuters reported.

  • UNESCO's World Heritage Committee met in Manama, Bahrain to debate which sites to add to its catalog.

  • Panama and China opened free trade talks on Monday with the aim of crafting an agreement that could turn the Central American country into a hub for Chinese goods across Latin America.