Novatrans goes to Charles André

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

Times are tough for Novatrans

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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...

New combi-rail services

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

SBB Cargo/Hupac link up

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

Novatrans to SNCF

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

Novatrans returns to Chunnel

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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...

Novatrans returns to Chunnel

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

Longer combi-trains?

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

New AFR intermodal wagon

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Despite the poor health of the railroad combined transport sector in France, Douai-based wagon builder Arbel Fauvet Rail (AFR) has come up w...

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