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‘It’s hard to convince shippers to use combined transport services’

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November 6, 2024
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Lahaye Global Logistics is a French family-owned road haulage and logistics company based in Brittany. Railfreight.com spoke to Bastien Thirion, Lahaye’s director of rail freight,…

France’s master plan for combined transport highlights need for more terminals

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October 28, 2024
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France has published a “national master plan” for combined transport. Drawn up by the State Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Transport and Mobility (DGITM), in close collaboration…

Hungarian EU Council presidency puts forward new combined transport definition

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October 3, 2024
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The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union has proposed a new definition of combined transport. There is a lot of disagreement about…

‘Catch-up effect’ sees French combined transport increase 16% in H1

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September 20, 2024
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Rail-road combined transport in France increased by 16 per cent in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, according to…

FM Logistic starts with rail-road combi freight services

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September 16, 2024
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One of France’s biggest independent logistics services providers, FM Logistic, is poised to make a concerted move into the rail-road transport segment. Initially operating on…

Combined Transport performance rebounds by 4,25% in Q2 2024

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August 14, 2024
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European Combined Transport (CT) performance has rebounded by 4,25 per cent in the second quarter of 2024. The improvement occurred because the sector left earlier…

‘France can no longer be on the sidelines of P400 transport’

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July 10, 2024
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The new president of France’s multi-modal transport association, the Groupement National des Transports Combinés (GNTC), Rémy Crochet, has highlighted good quality train paths as the…

Combined transport is staying with DB Cargo after “mud fight” with trade union

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July 3, 2024
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DB Cargo is no longer dropping its combined transport operations, which will reportedly save up to 2000 jobs at the company. The decision comes after…

French road-rail traffic up 18% in Q1 2024, but only because 2023 was bad

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June 21, 2024
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French road-rail volumes were up 18 per cent in the first quarter of 2024. Still, they benefitted from a favourable comparison with the same period last year, marked by several negative factors affecting the market, according to the combined transport association Groupement National des Transports Combinés (GNTC). In 2023, road-rail volumes, expressed in tonne/kilometres, were…

Combined transport in Europe in 2023 down by 10%

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May 21, 2024
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Combined transport in Europe in 2023 dropped by 10.57 per cent the number of consignments transported and by 9.39 per cent in the tonne-kilometre performance. This means that these volumes are roughly back at pre-COVID 19 levels after four years of moderate growth between 2019 and 2022. UIRR said this downward trend was caused by…