Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train...

Britain has been used to transport goods of various types and in varying volumes since the early 19th century. Network Rail, which owns and maintains...

which carry freight. A wide variety of cargos are carried on trains, but the low friction inherent to rail transport means that freight trains are especially...

Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term...

Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship...

countries by rail usage. Usage of rail transport may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for freight and passenger...

shipping. Like most railways, rail transport in Russia carries both freight and passengers. It is one of the most freight-dominant railways in the world...

North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a 7,200-km (4500 mile) long multi-mode network of ship, rail, and road route for moving freight between India...

Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries. Rail transport in New Zealand has a particular focus on bulk freight exports and imports, with 19...

In freight rail transport, interchange is the practice of railroads conveying freight cars ("foreign" cars) from other companies over their lines. This...

Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads...

Transport in the United Kingdom is highly facilitated by road, rail, air and water networks. Transport is a devolved matter with each of the countries...

Intermodal freight transport uses standardized containers, which are handled by cranes. Along their routes, freight trains are routed through rail yards to...

known as Railion and DB Schenker Rail) is an international transport and logistics company. It is responsible for all of the rail freight transport activities...

Forsyth, David (19 December 1996). "Re: Longest freight train in the U.S." Newsgroup: misc.transport.rail.americas. Archived from the original on 13 February...

417 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). MSC subsidiaries operate rail freight transport in Portugal and Spain, cruise ships, and cargo aircraft. MSC operates...

more dependent on agriculture for rail freight traffic. By the 1990s road transport had captured most general freight traffic, with an average of only...

Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport...

company which has a de facto country-wide monopoly on passenger and freight transport by rail. The first railway tracks were constructed in present-day western...

Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet. It was part of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration...

70% of domestic cargo is transported by train. The relative weakness of rail freight is due to the lower price of truck transport which externalizes a larger...

Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network which connects nearly all major towns and cities. There are as many train stations as there...

and Romania, wagonload freight is a very minor aspect of rail freight transport representing less than 5% of rail freight transport. Wagonload traffic typically...

Rail transport in France is marked by a clear predominance of passenger traffic, driven in particular by high-speed rail. The SNCF, the national state-owned...

Rail transport in Australia is a component of the Australian transport system. It is to a large extent state-based, as each state largely has its own operations...

Road (Новый шёлковый путь, Noviy shyolkoviy put'), is the rail transport route for moving freight and passengers overland between Pacific seaports in the...

Transrail was a trainload rail freight operator based in St Blazey, England, UK with a large operating area including Scotland, Wales and the west of England...

Rail transport in Montenegro is operated by four separate companies, which independently handle railway infrastructure, passenger transport, cargo transport...

the transport of goods by rail. The company has proclaimed its ambition to realise a ‘modal shift’ in Europe, moving a greater amount of freight off the...

shipping decreased railroad's share of the total freight market to about 9 percent, or about half of rail's share a decade earlier. In 1995, the Mexican government...