SNCF Geodis is launching a new brand, CapTrain, covering its international rail haulage activities. The creation of CapTrain, following the acquisitions made over the last two years, confirms the objective of the SNCF Geodis to integrate and develop its various international activities.
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Intermodal operator Shuttlewise will launch a service from Rotterdam via Venlo to the northern Italian city of Mortara at November 30th. This new container-shuttle will depart from Rotterdam RSC terminal, has a commercial stop at TCT in Venlo and ends at TIMO in Mortara. TIMO is a brand new terminal in the Lombardia region, 20 km south of Novara.
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The port of Gothenburg has significantly increased the proportion of traffic moving by rail. At a time when the rest of Europe is struggling to make rail transport more successful compared to road, the proportion of the port's hinterland traffic moving by rail recently reached 60%.
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The Husa Transportation Group has taken over the Germany railway companies Rent-a-Rail (RaR) and SRS RailService. The acquisition is the initial, important step in Husa's ‘Stepping Stone’ strategy. The objective is to acquire a strategic position on the German rail freight transport market through cooperation with and the taking over of mainly regionally-oriented players on the German market.
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The Dutch rail freight promotion centre, Rail Cargo information Netherlands, has recently introduced a new tool. It concerns a European overview of intermodal rail terminals. The overview can be downloaded for free at www.railcargo.nl. It consists of a special layer on ‘Google Earth’. In total more than 380 rail terminals are listed.
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SNCF Fret has confirmed a contract with Bombardier Transportation to supply 80 interoperable diesel electric BOMBARDIER TRAXX F140 DE locomotives, with an initial firm order of 45 locomotives.
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Agility, which is a global logistics company, has opened a new freight services centre in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
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Rico Schavemaker, MD Schavemaker Logistics & Transport
“Today, carrying cargo between the Netherlands and Poland is definitely road haulage market related. The rates are very competitive on this trade. Despite the introduction of the LKW-Maut (levy of truck toll), rising fuel costs etc., there has not been such thing as a euro’s rise of Polish road haulage freight rates since 2004. The question is how long this will be going on. Road haulage will be faced with another LKW-Maut increase, fuel costs will continue rising in the next few years and it will become harder and harder to get Polish drivers attracted to international road haulage when prosperity in that country will continue growing.
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This report presents the current situation and the forecast for 2020. For this report data was collected from various sources. Also interviews with market parties have been done to validate the information and to get a good view on the actual situation.
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Recently two publications on intermodal transport have been issued: the factsheet “Intermodal transport, Co-modality starts here” and the brochure “Intermodal transport from a Dutch perspective”. These editions are a cooperation project between the Shortsea Promotion Centre Holland, Rail Cargo information Netherlands and the Inland Shipping Information Agency.
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