SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has established a new subsidiary with the aim of developing rail freight in France, named SBB Cargo France and based in Huningue in Alsace.<\/p>\n
SBB Cargo operates domestic freight services within Switzerland, while SBB operates freight trains in Germany and Italy through its subsidiary SBB Cargo International.<\/p>\n
The new subsidiary is likely to operate freight trains on diversionary routes through France due to limited capacity on European Rail Freight Corridor 1 (RFC 1). This is the Rhine-Alpine corridor that runs from Rotterdam and other North Sea ports to Genoa via Cologne, Karlsruhe and Basle.<\/p>\n
SBB Cargo International told IRJ that traffic on the section of RFC 1 in Germany north of Basle is reaching capacity limits, a situation that is unlikely to be resolved until the 2040s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe route via France is therefore an important alternative,\u201d an SBB Cargo International spokesperson said, although no further information was forthcoming.<\/p>\n
Capacity constraints on RFC 1 are mostly present between Basle and Karlsruhe. Diverting trains through France would mean operating on the non-electrified line<\/a> running north from Strasbourg to Lauterbourg on the German border, which at present is under-equipped to handle major transit freight traffic.<\/p>\n Another alternative might be to operate from Basle to Koblenz in Germany via Thionville in eastern France.<\/p>\n SBB\u2019s freight operations in France have been minimal until now. Transit traffic on the Basle – Strasbourg – Luxembourg – Antwerp corridor has been organised through Sibelit, a joint venture with French National Railways (SNCF), Luxembourg Railways (CFL) and Belgian freight operator Lineas.<\/p>\n A Vossloh G1206 diesel locomotive hired from German freight operator MWB is used to operate trip workings from Basle to Huningue, a river port on the opposite bank of the Rhine to Basle.<\/p>\n Most other cross-border freight between Switzerland and France involves Fret SNCF operating into Switzerland.<\/p>\n The post SBB sets up freight subsidiary in France<\/a> appeared first on International Railway Journal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has established a new subsidiary with the aim of developing rail freight in France, named SBB Cargo France and based in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rail-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}