PREMIERE OF AN ECTS CONTROLLED TRAIN IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

It is Friday afternoon, shortly past 4 pm. Most of the people in the Czech Republic are ending their working week, heading for the last weekend of February 2020. That is not the case for Martin Malík, the train driver of train 43342, soon to depart METRANS rail hub terminal in Česká Třebová. He climbs […]
INCREASE IN TOLL CHARGES IN THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY

According to the official publication of the Government of the Republic of Hungary No. 31 published on 28/02/2020, decree 8/2020. (II. 28.) ITM, it comes to change of toll charges on roads within the Republic of Hungary. According to the new regulation with effect from 15/03/2020, toll charges will be increased for category J4 (4 […]
Traffic restrictions due to the storm Sabine

Update 12.2.2020: Operation in the METRANS rail network and at METRANS terminals is getting stable after the storm Sabine, which has hit the Central European region. There are only some minor delays due to the accumulation of work volumes after outages. The railway line from Prague to Salzburg in the section Summerau border – Linz remains closed. METRANS […]
Planned increased of road transport tolls in Hungary

According to the official publication by the Government of the Republic of Hungary no. 212 (decree 44/2019 ITM) with effect from 03/01/2020, new toll sections were added, respectively some motorway sections and first-class roads were reclassified for vehicles over 3.5 tons. Please find more detailed information in the link below by the Government of Hungary: […]
METRANS expands the LINZ service – from Linz to Hamburg / Bremerhaven

Following our successful export connection with the port of Koper, import connection with northern ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven and following many inquiries, as of 13.12.2019 we are once again expanding our Linz service with an export train connection from terminal Linz to the northern ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven. With our goal to successfully cover […]
METRANS adds Berlin on a map of its terminals

Starting on 4 November 2019, the cooperation between LUTRA GmbH and METRANS was established in order to serve the customers in the vicinity of the capital of Germany. Situated 25 km south-east of Berlin, the (GVZ) Schönefelder Kreuz logistics center is now connected with regular trains of the METRANS network on their way to and […]