{"id":150916,"date":"2024-11-22T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=58089"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:26:25","slug":"db-cargo-france-to-close-down-two-hubs-gives-up-traffic-to-hexafret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=150916","title":{"rendered":"DB Cargo France to close down two hubs, gives up traffic to Hexafret"},"content":{"rendered":"

DB Cargo France is to close two of its hubs with the loss of 30 jobs. Explaining the move, president and CEO, Alexandre Gallo, told Railfreight.com that DB\u2019s wagon groupage traffic from Germany to France \u201cis no longer sufficient to maintain its own fixed cost structure.\u201d The traffic this activity represents has been handed over to Hexafret, one of the two companies born out of the demise of Fret SNCF, Gallo added.<\/strong>
\n<\/span>He continued: \u201cTherefore, we are closing the Vaires (Greater Paris region) and Gevrey (Dijon) hubs (the company will maintain its offices at both locations). This involves around thirty jobs and mainly concerns staff responsible for sorting wagons.\u201d The downsizing measure has perhaps come as a surprise as the accent has been very much on expansion at DB Cargo France this year with the company taking on several routes relinquished by SNCF\u2019s main rail freight subsidiary ahead of being discontinued.<\/p>\n

Gallo also confirmed the launch of two rail-road transport services<\/a> at the beginning of 2025. One will link Metz and Nancy in eastern France with Valenton, in the Paris suburbs, while the second is a new \u2018combi\u2019 route to the UK between Paris-Valenton and Daventry, in Northamptonshire, England, via the Channel Tunnel, operating two or three times a week.<\/p>\n