Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight reaches major milestone of transported trucks
Celebrating 33 million trucks on the shuttle. Image: Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight
Usually, when speaking about freight trains, one pictures them carrying cargo. However, there are freight trains known as rolling highways that transport trucks. One such service is the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight, which transports lorries between the UK and France. After 28 years of operations, the service reached an impressive milestone by transporting 33 million trucks on rails.
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Still, however, balance, some 75%, is by sea and providing for redundancy, the vital, at any sustainable, high quality, “JIT”, supply chain.
(Diversity, strategy of Nature, is requested.)
Still, for Hemisphere, logistic costs are high, too high. Severe bottleneck of railway, vulnerability, remains and now decisively has to be outed.
Simply, maintenance work has turned too costly. (Regardless of Big Data and “predictive”, broken rails…by far, is the most common reason of derailments…, etc.)