French quarry group Pigeon is choosing rail freight to reduce the environmental impact of its transport activities and optimise deliveries. Via subsidiary, Pigeon Granulats Loire…
Fret SNCF, the French state-owned rail freight company, is officially a thing of the past. Two freshly established entities, Hexafret and Technis, respectively taking over…
A new rail freight service connecting the Limay-Porcheville multimodal platform, near Paris, with Switzerland has been recently launched by Haropa Port. The initiative entails the…
France-based rail freight operators managed to preserve their revenues in 2023 through raising rates despite traffic falling sharply in 2023 (-17 per cent in tonne-kilometres),…
Following a historic drop in volumes in 2023, this year has shown the resilience of French intermodal freight transport with traffic picking up again. By…
Shipping giant CMA CGM is leading a consortium which plans to invest approximately 40 million euros in developing container traffic at the Lyon river port,…
France has officially decided on the ‘broad profile’ (grand gabarit in French) option for the access to the future Lyon-Turin rail link. This choice will…
