{"id":80512,"date":"2024-07-05T18:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=54153"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T08:44:14","slug":"carrefour-and-danone-reactivate-rail-link-for-bottled-water-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=80512","title":{"rendered":"Carrefour and Danone reactivate rail link for bottled water shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Retail chain Carrefour and food industry giant Danone are claiming a first in France by reactivating a rail delivery service connecting a manufacturer&#8217;s production site directly to a supermarket warehouse.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-54153\"><\/span>The logistics hub at Grans, located near Marseille, normally supplies more than 130 Carrefour stores in the region by truck but is now served by trains that make a 600-kilometre rail journey from Danone&#8217;s natural mineral water bottling plant in Evian carrying shipments of the beverage.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2023\/06\/16\/santanna-water-flows-from-road-to-rail-along-the-mediterranean-corridor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SantAnna-waters-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2023\/06\/16\/santanna-water-flows-from-road-to-rail-along-the-mediterranean-corridor\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Sant\u2019Anna Water flows from road to rail along the Mediterranean Corridor<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Traction is provided by French rail firm Regiorail, while 4PL specialist IDEO, a subsidiary of Carrefour\u2019s logistics provider, ID Logistics, is also involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alongside our partners such as Carrefour, we are delighted to be helping to relaunch a sustainable method of transporting goods, thereby continuing to reduce our environmental impact. This new joint project with Carrefour further illustrates our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint throughout the value chain, &#8221; commented Quentin Bonnerot, Customer Operations Director Danone France.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2023\/08\/23\/nestle-raises-the-roof-to-get-intermodal-bulk-foods-on-track\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nestle-Rail-Landscape-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2023\/08\/23\/nestle-raises-the-roof-to-get-intermodal-bulk-foods-on-track\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Nestl\u00e9 raises the roof to get intermodal bulk foods on track<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Delivering the Carrefour-ID Logistics logistics hub in Miramas by train, using single wagons, is fully in line with the latter\u2019s CSR (Corporate and Social Responsibility) approach, noted William Parramorre, Managing Director of IDEO. &#8220;Today, our ambition is to develop multi-client rail services. The pooling of resources and costs to the benefit of all will ensure that transport flows are decarbonised,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The development of the rail link means 500 fewer lorries on the roads each year, representing a saving of 400 tonnes of CO2.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2023\/05\/02\/heineken-france-shifts-to-rail-with-the-help-of-lahaye-logistics\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/shutterstock_1965775189-scaled-e1683020699595-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2023\/05\/02\/heineken-france-shifts-to-rail-with-the-help-of-lahaye-logistics\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Heineken France shifts to rail with the help of Lahaye logistics<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail chain Carrefour and food industry giant Danone are claiming a first in France by reactivating a rail delivery service connecting a manufacturer\u2019s production site\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[72,11240,11241,11242,94,11243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-carrefour","category-danone","category-evian","category-france","category-retail-logistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80512","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80513,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80512\/revisions\/80513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}