GTS Rail, the railway company of the Bari-based GTS group, and the CargoBeamer have planned new intermodal connections between northern Italy and Belgium. Tomorrow the first company will inaugurate a train service that will connect the Padua Interport with Zeebrugge with three weekly rotations, with the aim of increasing them to five starting from the second quarter of this year. CargoBeamer has inaugurated a new connection between Liège and Domodossola, which represents for the company The first entry into the Belgian market. The service of CargoBeamer is initially made with three rotations weekly with the aim of increasing them to six in the second quarter of this year.

Announcing the new service, which entrusts BLS Cargo with the CargoBeamer explained that the opening of the Liège-Domodossola line takes place at a crucial moment for the intermodal market in Europe due to the closure of the motorway travelling between Germany and Italy at the end of 2025 ( of 9 December 2025), resulting in a significant decrease in Capacity available for non-liftable semi-trailers in the transalpine traffic. The goal of the new CargoBeamer service is therefore to absorb part of these previous volumes, transferring them to the scalable mode of transport unaccompanied intermodal transport.