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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...

CLIP Intermodal Terminal expansion well under way

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...

Brittany Ferries to become multimodal operator

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...

"VIIA Britanica" set to open in Calais

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...

More "Autoroutes Ferroviaires" for French rails

News29 Sep 2013

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

UIRR backs lo-lo against horizontal techniques

News9 Dec 2012

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

More horizontal transfer systems

News1 Nov 2012

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

France’s Atlantic "rail motorway"

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...

Lorry-Rail enters the combi-field

News1 Apr 2007

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

Lorry-Rail 2007 launch

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...

Frejus boosts Modalohr

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...

Horizontal transfer

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-...

Mega-3 and the Maxbox trailer

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...

French combi faces grave crisis

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...

Can CargoBeamer open new horizons?

News1 Nov 2004

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?

News1 Aug 2004

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

Brittany Ferries to go ahead with Cherbourg-Bayonne rail link

CLIP Intermodal Terminal expansion well under way

Brittany Ferries to become multimodal operator

"VIIA Britanica" set to open in Calais

More "Autoroutes Ferroviaires" for French rails

UIRR backs lo-lo against horizontal techniques

More horizontal transfer systems

France’s Atlantic "rail motorway"

Lorry-Rail enters the combi-field

Lorry-Rail 2007 launch

Frejus boosts Modalohr

Horizontal transfer

Mega-3 and the Maxbox trailer

French combi faces grave crisis

Can CargoBeamer open new horizons?

A step forward for Cargospeed?

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Victorian terminals align landside charges

Liverpool powers up solar array for government visit

CakeBoxx introduces FlexBoxx

ICTSI 9M2024 throughput, income increase

Kalmar reachstackers for Groupe Combronde

Brittany Ferries to go ahead with Cherbourg-Bayonne rail link

CLIP Intermodal Terminal expansion well under way

Brittany Ferries to become multimodal operator

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Victorian terminals align landside charges

Liverpool powers up solar array for government visit

CakeBoxx introduces FlexBoxx

ICTSI 9M2024 throughput, income increase

Kalmar reachstackers for Groupe Combronde

Konecranes CEO: Digitalisation and automation over time is a given

London Olympic Park to get rail freight terminal

FERNRIDE joins forces with JOST

ZPMC ships STS cranes to Italy’s Gioia Tauro, RMGs to Sri Lanka

Aidrivers partners with Rocsys