It is never too late to shift to a virtuous transport system. By using the existing railway network, every new rail motorway service, deliverable in eighteen months, allows to transfer trucks from the road to the rail, thus avoiding GHG emissions.
French company Lohr Industrie is now deploying what trucking companies have been dreaming of for decades: a wagon that can carry standard, 4 metre truck semi-trailers throughout the European rail network.
THE first intermodal terminal for direct loading of lorry semitrailers between rail and ferry in France was inaugurated at the Port of Calais on October 23.
Yesterday the port de Calais inaugurated its new road-rail combined transport platform equipped with a solution by the Alsatian company Lohr.
THE first intermodal terminal for direct loading of lorry semitrailers between rail and ferry in France was inaugurated at the Port of Calais on October 23.
The first intermodal road-rail combined transport terminal for direct loading of lorry semi-trailers between rail and ferry in France was inaugurated at the Port of Calais on Friday. This was the last step before the road-rail combined transport line connecting Spain to Great Britain comes into service...
The intermodal railway terminal was inaugurated yesterday. Two trains carrying forty trailers will arrive and depart at Calais each day, 160 lorries per day, 6 days a week! “It’s fantastic!” exclaimed Daniel Percheron. The President of the Region (the owner of the port) is thrilled with what he saw. The port’s intermodal railway terminal was inaugurated yesterday and is due to come into service on 12th January 2016...
This article from the Lëtzebuerger Gemengen of May 2012 also talks about the benefits of the rolling highway concept.
This article from the Républicain Lorrain of 11 April 2012 recalls the benefits of the ....
A revolution is underway in the world of rail transport. Since January 2012, trains 850 m long have been authorised to run on the French network. These longer trains can therefore take more lorries in the case of combined rail-road transport and thus reduce the number on our roads.
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