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Brittany Ferries to go ahead with Cherbourg-Bayonne rail link

News25 Apr 2022

Brittany Ferries will adopt the modalohr system from Lohr Industrie for its new rail freight service between Cherbourg and Bayonne, and beco...

News10 Feb 2021

Capacity of the terminal in Jasin, near Poznán, will increase annual capacity from 136,000 TEU to 533,000 TEU, or up to 20 trains a day...

News22 Feb 2020

The French ro-pax shipping line will introduce its own intermodal rail service using the Modalohr technique between Bayonne and Cherbourg, t...

News24 Oct 2015

VIIA will open its new intermodal rail terminal for unaccompanied trailers in Calais, targetting UK o/d traffic, in January next year...

News29 Sep 2013

New routes for "Rail Motorway" services have been announced by Lorry-Rail...

News9 Dec 2012

The UIRR has backed traditional vertical means of transferring semi-trailers between rail and road against the CargoBeamer and Modalohr syst...

News1 Nov 2012

DB Schenker Rail recently demonstrated two rail/road horizontal transfer systems to customers in Wolfsburg, Germany....

News30 Oct 2009

Three consortia have been short-listed to provide France's third "rail motorway," this time to link the Aquitaine with Nord-Pas de Calais vi...

News1 Apr 2007

A new autoroute ferroviaire (rail motorway) service will start commercial operations this July between Bettembourg, in Luxembourg and Perpig...

News1 Jan 2006

A new long-distance intermodal service will be launched in 2007 between Perpignan (for Spain) and Luxembourg by Lorry-rail , a new joint ven...

News1 Jun 2005

The forced closure of the Fréjus road tunnel for several months due to an accident on 4 June has led to a surge of interest in the Modalohr...

News1 Apr 2005

Dear Sir, Thank you for the article mentioning our study (probably a little bit hidden) in the February 2005 issue of WorldCargo News (pp40-...

News1 Feb 2005

A new design for a topliftable piggyback trailer, with a mgw of 38 tonnes (tri-axle), has been launched by UK-based Intermo Ltd. The 45ft tr...

News1 Nov 2004

Popular support for measures to reduce truck traffic is as strong in France as anywhere in Europe. The reality, however, is that combi-trans...

News1 Nov 2004

CargoBeamer, another new horizontal transfer concept designed to bring standard, non-liftable road trailers within the scope of intermodal r...