SNCF takes Ermewa

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Subject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities, the Transport and Logistics Division of SNCF (French Rail) will take 100% c...

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...

SeaFrance up for grabs?

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SNCF 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

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SNCF 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

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Confirming 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

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

Sernam buyout

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Sernam, 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

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Following 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

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Ermechem has been launched in France by Bourgey Montreuil, Groupe Ermewa and SNCF as a full-package, multimodal logistics service provider f...

IPE bags Ermewa

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Investors 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

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After two years of preparation, Contship Italia (Eurogate) is set to launch its transalpine "Hannibal Express" service....

French combi-blues

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CNC Transports, majority-owned by SNCF, plans to cut staff by a further 10 per cent in the coming months to stem losses, thus continuing the...

2100 Channel tunnel trains lost

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EWS says it has lost more than GBP7 mill since SNCF first started restricting services from Frethun last November because of the illegal mig...

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