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The transport industry in Europe is operating under difficult conditions. Swissterminal delivers reliability, sustainability and direct connections to western European ports. From 2023, the Schweizerzug runs directly between Switzerland and [...]

Swissterminal has announced it will take over operations of the three French inland ports Ottmarsheim, Huningue-Village-Neuf and Ile Napoléon in the course of 2021. The company has won an international tender to operate the three Alsatian ports. [...]

In the course of the Gateway Basel Nord legal disputes, the Federal Administrative Court has rebuked the Swiss Competition Commission’s (COMCO) actions. On 7 December 2020, the Court upheld an appeal made by the private container terminal operator [...]

Swissterminal’s rail network has gained a new weekly connection to Austria: The Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has added Frenkendorf as an additional stop on its service between the Dutch port of Rotterdam and Wolfurt, Austria’s most western rail freight [...]

The controversial Gateway Basel Nord project now faces another setback. In its decision of 21 January 2020, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland upheld an appeal from Swissterminal, finding that Schweizerische Rheinhäfen (Swiss Rhine Ports) [...]

Setback for Gateway Basel Nord. The federal contribution of CHF 83 million to the controversial major project at the Rhine port in Basel will not be paid out until further notice. The Federal Administrative Court has upheld an appeal against the [...]

Swissterminal, leading provider of container terminal services in the Basel area, has lodged a formal complaint with the Swiss Federal Administrative Court against the federal funding for the planned container terminal project Gateway Basel Nord. [...]

As far as the efficiency and functioning capacity of the international transport chain is concerned, a great deal of potential for increasing efficiency is offered by rapid, flexible and transparent services through digital processes, resulting in [...]

The container terminal Niederglatt/Zurich, operated by Swissterminal Group, will offer Swiss importers and exporters a new direct rail link to the Rail Hub Milano in Melzo/Milano with five departures per week from 2 July 2018. This new connection [...]

As long as things are running smoothly there is hardly any reason to change tried-and-tested ways for freight transportation – and risk management gets postponed. There are always projects urgently to complete and the day-to-day business comes [...]