NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has awarded Dutch telecommunications provider KPN a contract to supply, install and maintain 1400 GSM-R cab radios for its fleet of locomotives, multiple units and driving trailers.

AN agreement to develop plans for an intermodal rail terminal to serve fresh food and flower producers in the Westland agricultural area near Rotterdam was signed at the Fruit Logistica 2015 exhibition in Berlin last month.

At the start of this year new 10-year concessions came into effect for infrastructure management and operation of passenger services on most of the Dutch railway network. Quintus Vosman considers whether lessons have been learned from the previous concession, and how the new agreements will shape the operation of the network over the next decade.

THE DUTCH province of Limburg is seeking financial support from the European Union to develop better cross-border train services to Germany and Belgium.

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has launched an investigation into allegations of corruption in the tender for a €510m contract to supply 118 Sprinter EMUs, which was awarded to CAF in December.

AFTER several frustrated attempts, the government of Flanders has once again raised the prospect of reopening the Iron Rhine, a direct rail link between the port of Antwerp and Mönchengladbach in Germany's industrial Ruhr region, which closed in the 1990s.

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) says it is seeking to improve its financial performance this year after returning to profit in 2014.

FOLLOWING a public tender, the Dutch province of Limburg has granted Netherlands Railways subsidiary Abellio a 15-year concession covering all regional bus and rail services in the province.

BOMBARDIER formally handed over the last of 19 Traxx F140 MS (class 186) multi-system electric locomotives for Netherlands Railways (NS) in a ceremony at the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht on February 6.

P&O Ferries announced on January 23 that it will begin work soon on a project to expand its rail hub at Rotterdam Europoort which aims to accommodate burgeoning traffic at the terminal.