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Work is nearing completion to link the Port of Cherbourg to France’s national rail network ahead of the launch of a rolling highway service for…
Work is nearing completion to link the Port of Cherbourg to France’s national rail network ahead of the launch of a rolling highway service for…
Ports and railways in France need to increase their cooperative efforts to increase the share of rail freight, according to Matthieu Chabanel, the head of…
The head of France’s rail network manager, SNCF Réseau, Matthieu Chabanel, recently appeared before a Senate committee to respond to questions about the state of…
A major investment programme totalling 4 billion euros to develop rail freight in France is due to be finalised later this year. Two of France’s…
France’s Brittany region plans to increase its rail freight traffic six-fold by 2050, reaching nine million tonnes of goods transported.
The works to repair the Frejus Railway, the main railway border crossing between France and Italy, may need more time than previously expected. Emmanuel Manier…
French infrastructure manager (IM) SNCF Réseau claims there has been a marked improvement in customer service levels in recent years. The volume of freight train…
Opposed to Fret SNCF’s “economic discontinuity,” the French railways’ major labour union, the CGT, is not giving up the fight to force the government and…
The French and Spanish governments are said to be in discussions on proposals to subsidise tolls on freight trains operating through the Perthus Tunnel under…