Lorry-Rail SA
Lorry-Rail SA is a Luxembourg transport company with international partners, which was created to build and operate a 1,050 km long international rail-road connection between Bettembourg in Luxembourg and the French Perpignan on the Spanish border.
Purpose and benefits
This rail link makes it possible to transport traffic to Spain with tractor - trailer without a driver and tractor handle due a daily train ride. As the company announced in April 2010, there will be three trains a day between Bettembourg and Le Boulou .
In May 2011, the goal was set to cover the two thousand kilometers between Spain and Scandinavia within two days, whereas on the road it would take at least three days.
partner
The operator Lorry Rail is a subsidiary of the French railway company SNCF and sells the convoys in cooperation with the Luxembourg CFL. Geodis, a transport and logistics company of the SNCF, is also involved.
history
The largest train to date that has ever been on the French rail network is the 850-meter-long and 2,400-tonne SNCF freight train that ran from Le Boulou in the south of France, near Perpignan, to Bettembourg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorry-Rail: Tëscht Betebuerg a Le Boulou elo 3 Zich den Dag. ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. rtl, April 14, 2010.
- ↑ Lorry-Rail extends its rail motorway offer in Europe: Freight from Spain to Scandinavia in 2 days ( Memento of the original of June 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 250 kB). Geodis Press Release, May 12, 2011
- ↑ 850 m long train in Bettembourg . Tageblatt , December 20, 2011
