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Hupac will operate Terminal Köln Nord

News21 Dec 2022

The Swiss-based UIRR company will run TKN from 1 January 2023, following a competitive tender organised by the trimodal port authority, HGK ...

News2 Jan 2019

Greenmodal Transport is set to introduce new connections linking the Port of Dunkirk with southern France and northern Italy, through a new ...

News10 Mar 2016

The port will reroute the first section of the dedicated freight link to remove a traffic conflict with inland shipping...

News27 Sep 2012

Pan-European multimodal transport operator Charles André has acquired combi-transport firm Novatrans from SNCF-Geodis...

News8 Jul 2012

GNTC has issued a statement attacking the poor management of Novatrans by SNCF Geodis...

News1 Feb 2012

The demise of SeaFrance shows that state-owned SNCF’s lossmaking affiliates cannot go on for ever and the focus in France has now switched...

News1 Feb 2011

New combi-services have been launched in France, despite a difficult environment....

News15 Dec 2010

The French and German affiliates of their respective national rail freight companies have launched ambitious new services...

News1 Jul 2010

In a reversal of the trend for leading UIRR and other intermodal operators to be taken over by national rail companies (eg Kombiverkeher/ DB...

News1 Oct 2009

Operating losses have, if anything, spurred acquisitions at SNCF Fret....

News1 Jun 2009

Despite earlier resistance from the French road hauliers’ association (FNTR) and two big road haulage firms, Charles André and Norbert De...

News1 May 2009

SNCF Fret is understood to have made another bid for Novatrans, the French UIRR operator...

News9 May 2008

Novatrans will return to the Channel Tunnel market this autumn with a new service that will link its hub at Lille-Dourges with a terminal in...

News1 May 2008

French intermodal operator Novatrans will return to the Channel Tunnel market this autumn with a new service that will link its hub at Lille...

News1 Jun 2006

Jean-Claude Brunier, president of France’s umbrella lobby group for combined transport, GNTC, is calling for longer intermodal trains up t...