Naviland Cargo launches its first rail link to Germany
Naviland Cargo starts container rail link between the port of Le Havre and Ludwigshafen with a connection to Eastern Europe
Naviland Cargo, a SNCF Geodis subsidiary, has opened the first container rail link with Germany on 18 January. “The new service runs from Le Havre to the Kombi-Terminal Ludwigshafen and offers an ideal connection to Eastern Europe. A link between Germany and the Lyon region, through a hub terminal at Strasbourg, as well as the ports of Fos, Marseille and Barcelona is also operated”, the company informs in a press release. The new rail link starts with three overnight rotations a week, with trains made up of wagons that can carry heavy containers and tanks (D wagons). Naviland Cargo plans to begin operating daily frequencies on this route to Germany in spring 2012 and to increase the length of the trains from 570 to 750 metres once the access works on the Ludwigshafen terminal are completed. Naviland Cargo is specialising in transport services across Europe for sea, tank and bulk containers. Its parent company SNCF Geodis, provides a global multimodal offering and end-to-end supply chain management solutions for its customers in Europe and worldwide. Through a network covering 120 countries and a 46,000-persons staff, the group is the fourth-largest transport and logistics operator in Europe, with revenue of EUR 7.4 billion in 2009. Quelle: LogEastics |