"VIIA Britanica" set to open in Calais

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

More horizontal transfer systems

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

France’s Atlantic "rail motorway"

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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...

Lorry-Rail enters the combi-field

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

Lorry-Rail 2007 launch

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

Frejus boosts Modalohr

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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...

Horizontal transfer

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

Mega-3 and the Maxbox trailer

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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...

French combi faces grave crisis

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

Can CargoBeamer open new horizons?

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

A step forward for Cargospeed?

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A full-scale demonstration of the Cargospeed ro-ro, rail/road transfer technique for non-liftable, semi-trailers took place last month at th...

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