VIIA, a French transportation company, has launched a new rail freight service connecting the port of Sete, in southern France, with the Valenton terminal, 15 kilometres from Paris. This new connection is expected to boost...Read more
Nestle Waters France will use a hydrogen-powered freight train for the transport of VITTEL mineral water from 2025. The innovative system will be developed by Alstom and the hydrogen will be provided by ENGIE. The...Read more
The new rail logistics area in Nantes-Blottereau, in northwestern France, was inaugurated Thursday, 17 November. The new facility, which replaced the one in Nantes-Etat, will be suitable for 750-metre-long trains and will be also used...Read more
Major rail freight players in France presented new demands to Clement Beaune, the Minister for Transport, as Alliance 4F (Fret Ferroviaire Français du Futur) claimed. The main purpose of these demands is to make rail freight...Read more
France has given added impetus to its aim to speed up the transition of freight transport modes by opening up the state energy savings certificate (ESC) scheme to shippers. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, minister for Energy Transition,...Read more
The renovation process of a railway line in western France, unused since 2015, started earlier in November. The 30-kilometres-long section, connecting Saint Varent and Parthenay, should reopen for freight transportation, with trains operating at a...Read more
For the first time in nine years, rail tracks in the port of Brest, northwestern France, were finally used again. Bunge, an American agribusiness and food company, has started supplying its facility in Brest by...Read more
Another incentive is added for rail companies in France and a booster for the French national rail freight development plan. Last week, the European Commission approved a 450 million euros state aid scheme to support...Read more
CFL Multimodal from Luxembourg has launched a new rail freight service between Sète, in southern France, and Poznan, in Western Poland. For now, there will be one roundtrip per week, as a spokesperson from CFL...Read more
CargoBeamer has operated the first test train between Marseille and Calais transporting craneable and non-craneable semi-trailers. The service connects the Port of Marseille Fos with the CargoBeamer terminal in Calais. On the inaugural journey, 28...Read more
The relative financial stability that the SNCF Group experiences after years brings a positive message to the French rail freight and logistics market. Nevertheless, the revenue growth noticed in 2021 and the first half of...Read more
France is rethinking the processes of train capacity allocation in its railway network. After some disputes between rail operators and the infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau, the Transport Regulatory Authority of France (ART) opened a consultation...Read more
France wants to support the export of Ukrainian grain through Romania. France’s transport minister Clement Beaune said on Sunday night that he would sign a deal with Romania on this matter the next day. The...Read more
SNCF’s rail network manager, SNCF Réseau and Rail Logistics Europe, an entity grouping its rail freight units, have developed a system for “the intelligent detection of train anomalies.”Read more
With a decision published on 6 September, the Autorité de Régulation des Transports (ART) resolved a dispute concerning “the technical conditions and operations for access to the railway network”. The French authority decided in favour...Read more
In France, the maximum load for combined transport is increased from 42-44 tons to 46 tons. This is an experiment that lasts 18 months. It should benefit truckers, but also combined transport in general, as...Read more
Swiss railway companies presented four measures “to safeguard capacity and stabilise operations on the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine, via France”. The companies involved are VAP, BLS Cargo AG, Hupac Group,...Read more
SNCF is negotiating the sale of its freight locomotive leasing company Akiem with the Canadian investment fund Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ). The railway company jointly owns the subsidiary (50:50) with German...Read more
Arkema, SNCF Fret, and Everysens launched a tripartite project aimed at improving rail freight traffic performance through data comparison. The project aims at providing real-time updates on estimated time of arrivals (ETA) and identifying immobilisation...Read more
The UK operations of aggregates and construction materials company CEMEX claims a 17 kilo-tonne reduction in CO2 emissions. They put that down to their policy of optimising their supply chain for the lowest possible emissions....Read more
France’s Groupe Open Modal has unveiled plans to build a state-of-the-art intermodal terminal for swap bodies and containers in Miramas, on the outskirts of Marseille. The investment in the project is estimated at over 30...Read more
