SNCF to acquire 20 pc of the Italian railroad NTV

SNCF, the good partner for NTV According to latest updates, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV), first Italian private company in high speed rail passenger transport, has chosen SNCF as a reference industrial partner. SNCF will invest as much as 20% capital into NTV’s. Through this partnership, NTV expects in the short-term to benefit from the SNCF [...]

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Russian rail to invest in Deutsche Bahn

The intention of Russian Railways (RZD) to inject capital into Deutsche Bahn (DB) following the partial DB privatisation is everything but secret. Vladimir Iakounine showed his interest as soon as the privatisation was announced. In an interview to Herald Tribune, he stated that RZD would like to own about 5% of the DB’s capital. From [...]

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Freight trains from Europe to China, a reality!

After the Deutsche Bahn (DB) launched its second experimentation of freight Trans-Siberian train, SNCF, the French national railway operator, committed to run in three years time freight over the 12,000 kilometres separating France and China. In a recent meeting with Vladimir Iakounine, head of Russian railway company, Guillaume Pépy, head of SNCF, discussed the eventuality [...]

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Trains from Asia to Europe, a DB success

The January 2008 DB Schenker trial which consisted in running a freight train from China to Germany turned out to be a real success. Trans Eurasia, the DB Schenker branch in charge of the whole scheme, has already been requested by many companies to handle their volumes. According to Harmut Albers, head of Trans Eurasia, [...]

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In brief: Heineken brewery carries beers on waterways

From its Zoeterwoude brewery, Heineken, the Dutch brewer will carry the beers produced in its factory and sent to Antwerp and Rotterdam via waterways. By 2009, the company expects to carry most of its production to Antwerp and Rotterdam on the river. It plans to reduce the number of trucks by around 100,000 per year. Roads [...]

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GAO Month in Review – July 2008

Here are the latest US Government Accountability Office (US GAO) reports about transportation, published in July 2008. Air Traffic Control: FAA Uses Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Information Technology Acquisitions, but Needs to Clarify Policy and Strengthen Oversight. GAO-08-756, July 18, 2008 (45 pages). http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/details.php?rptno=GAO-08-756 Airline Industry: Potential Mergers and Acquisitions Driven by Financial [...]

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Special announcement from the Editor

Everybody knows summer is a “slow” period. Thus we have not been writing a lot in the last couple weeks on Transport Expertise, but we did quite a bit of thinking to improve the services we provide, and to choose what we will write about in the future. After six month of successful activity, we [...]

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In brief: SNCF take over bid on Geodis is a success

The operation is (apparently) a success: according to a report from the stocks market authority (Autorité des marchés financiers, AMF), SNCF, the French national railway operator, would hold more than 95% of Geodis shares and right of votes. This announcement was made by the AMF on Monday, July 7 and the final result of the [...]

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Cargo Rail Express: does it ring a bell?

Roissy Carex, a High-Speed Freight Rail project Since 1999, a group of companies settled on the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport platform have been thinking and working together to set up a high speed freight rail service. From this idea came a struture, involving several partners: Public entities: Roissy Development (Economic Development Agency of Roissy Porte [...]

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In brief: FedEx develops its European hubs

FedEx, worldwide leader in express freight and packages transportation, will finance an extension of its infrastructures based in Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (Roissy-CDG). This site is the most important package sorting warehouse in France for FedEx and employs around 1,800 people of about 2,500 total in France. FedEx European hub in will be expanded [...]

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