SNCF and Eurotunnel acquire Veolia Cargo
NewsSNCF and Eurotunnel groups have teamed up to acquire Veolia Cargo, the rail freight businesses of the Veolia group...
Novatrans to SNCF
NewsDespite earlier resistance from the French road hauliers’ association (FNTR) and two big road haulage firms, Charles André and Norbert De...
SNCF takes Ermewa
NewsSubject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities, the Transport and Logistics Division of SNCF (French Rail) will take 100% c...
IFB takes over TRW’s transport business
NewsBelgian Railways is rationalising its intermodal service offer...
SNCF in for Novatrans again?
NewsSNCF Fret is understood to have made another bid for Novatrans, the French UIRR operator...
SeaFrance up for grabs?
NewsSNCF may be forced to relinquish control of its loss-making ferry arm. Both LD Lines (Louis Dreyfus group) and Brittany Ferries are believed...
SNCF buys Nord Cargo
NewsSNCF is understood to have acquired a majority stake in Nord Cargo, Italy’s second biggest rail freight operator after Trenitalia and up t...
DB moves on EWS and Transfesa
NewsConfirming months of speculation, fuelled by their own joint statement some time ago that they were examining ways of “extending co-operat...
Lorry-Rail enters the combi-field
NewsA new autoroute ferroviaire (rail motorway) service will start commercial operations this July between Bettembourg, in Luxembourg and Perpig...
Sernam buyout
NewsSernam, the international parcels express arm of SNCF, has been sold to its management and renamed Sernam Xpress. Philippe Chevalier is the ...
SNCF Fret on track
NewsFollowing a test phase last year, SNCF has decided to equip its fleet of freight locos with a Saphymo real-time tracking and condition monit...
Ermechem debut
NewsErmechem has been launched in France by Bourgey Montreuil, Groupe Ermewa and SNCF as a full-package, multimodal logistics service provider f...
IPE bags Ermewa
NewsInvestors in Private Equity (IPE), headed by Philippe Nguyen, has acquired a majority 50.4 percent stake in Ermewa Group, Europe's second la...
Intermodal on the move
NewsAfter two years of preparation, Contship Italia (Eurogate) is set to launch its transalpine "Hannibal Express" service....