In an exceptional move, France’s rail infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau is undertaking a major tranche of track maintenance during day-time hours in order to preserve…
The situation has prompted carriers to alter schedules and, in at least one prominent case, to re-route calls to neighbouring English port Southampton.
SNCF subsidiary VIIA is already looking to double weekly frequencies on its rail highway service between Sète and Calais, which was launched as recently as…
Getlink, the French parent company of Eurotunnel, has pulled the plug on major Anglo-French rail freight plans, blaming what it calls “unsustainable” UK taxation.
French multi-modal logistics company Combronde recently launched a east-west rail freight service between Arles, in southeast France and Bordeaux, in the southwest of the country.…
Eurotunnel has confirmed it has frozen planned UK freight projects. The French owners have cried foul on what they describe as “unsustainable” British taxation. The…
Rail Logistics Europe (RLE), the structure grouping SNCF’s rail freight subsidiaries, has opened a register of interest for the auction of 26 locomotives put up…
Ukrainian Railways (UZ) is getting 55 new dual-voltage electric locomotives from Alstom. The deal is made possible by financial support from the World Bank and…