After successful trials, the Port of Nantes-St Nazaire now offers a regular, weekly rail freight service to Lyon carrying Spanish-origin granite. The shipments arrive at…
Category: France
French road-rail traffic up 18% in Q1 2024, but only because 2023 was bad
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…
EU Member States are not satisfied with the Greening Freight Package
A few EU Member States showed some dissatisfaction with the recent developments regarding the Greening Freight Package. Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands were not happy with the definition of Combined Transport. Moreover, Sweden does not seem to satisfied with the Capacity Management Regulation as it abstained from voting on Council proposal during the EU…
Work underway on new rail-river aggregates terminal in Normandy
Aggregates specialist Carrières de Vignats has laid the foundation stone for a multimodal freight terminal that will allow the transport of construction feedstock from Western France to the Greater Paris region by rail and river. Work began last September at the company’s site in Val d’Hazey in the département of Eure, in Normandy. The terminal…
Will Switzerland fund the upgrade of the railway on the Rhine’s left bank?
The Swiss Federal Council proposed three measures to boost the modal shift from road to rail across the Alps. The main measure is the financing for the adaptation to the 4-metre profile of the railway between Basel, Strasbourg and Metz to create a viable alternative route on the left bank of the Rhine River. However,…