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Navya and Lohr link their fate on the autonomous vehicle

2022-09-22 – Mobily-Cités (FR)

The autonomous shuttle designer Navya and the industrial manufacturer Lohr signed a "strategic alliance" on 22 September.

Navya and Lohr enter into a strategic alliance

2022-09-22 – Press release

Navya and Lohr form a strategic alliance to speed up their technological, industrial and commercial development in the field of autonomous mobility

2022 IAA Exhibition

2022-09-19 – Press release

LOHR is expanding its range of products, incorporating all the latest innovations to meet the broadest range of needs within the different business sectors of vehicle transportation.

Cherbourg – Bayonne rail motorway: the date is set for 2024

2022.05.31 - La Lettre Ferroviaire (FR)

Brittany Ferries has been supporting the Cherbourg - Bayonne rail motorway project for several years. A call for a manifestation of interest from the State is underway.

Draisy: a light vehicle based on “existing and proven solutions”

2022.06.28 - La Lettre Ferroviaire (FR)

The SNCF and Lohr are working on a Draisy light train concept to revitalise the short lines. A prototype is expected in 2025. [...]

Innovation on the tracks

2022.04.17 - Franceinfo (FR)

On the 15,000 kilometres of non-electrified track where railcars, mostly diesel or hybrid, are used, clean and modular solutions are being devised for passengers and freight. [...]

The Draisy light railway wants to rehabilitate the small railway lines

2022.07.08 - Les Echos (FR)

As part of a consortium led by the SNCF, the Alsatian company Lohr has designed a hybrid train/bus vehicle. Equipped with rapidly rechargeable batteries, this vehicle can run on non-electrified tracks, which are inexpensive to maintain. [...]

Clip. Modern transshipment of semi-trailers in Swarzędz

2022.03.20 – Rynek Infrastruktury(POL)

Last week, at the Clip Rail Mega Hub Intermodal in Swarzędz, semi-trailers were reloaded using the Lohr Railway System station. The Lohr Railway System is a technology that allows horizontal loading of standard road semi-trailers on railway wagons, without the need for a crane. For several years it has been used in intermodal transport, mainly between France and Italy. Now it is also available in Poland.

First in Poland: CLIP Group introduces innovative system for loading semi-trailers onto wagons

2022.03.14 - Intermodal News (GB)

CLIP Group is moving further in developing its Rail Mega Hub Intermodal in Swarzędz near Poznań. Since early March, an innovative system for loading semi-trailers onto wagons without using reach stackers or cranes has been functioning at the facility. It is the first intermodal terminal in Poland with a solution of this type. The new system was applied for the intermodal connection between Poland and Luxembourg.

VIIA to operate new multi-modal terminal at French port of Sète

2022.02.17– RailFreight.com (GB)

SNCF Logistics’ rail freight subsidiary VIIA has won a tender to operate a new multi-modal terminal in the French Mediterranean port of Sète, scheduled to enter service at the beginning of 2023. The company also is planning to launch a rail ‘motorway’ route between Sète and Calais, in addition to two other routes connecting the port in the southeast.