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Ports and railways in France need to increase their cooperative efforts to increase the share of rail freight, according to Matthieu Chabanel, the head of France’s rail network manager, SNCF Réseau. Addressing a Senate committee recently on the state of the sector, Chabanel took the example of Calais where a major project is attracting public investment totalling 83 million euros.
The project is divided into two phases: the first entails the modernisation of the existing rail infrastructure, while the second focusses on the creation of a new line in the port area to enable the development of combined transport. Providing an update on the first phase of the project, a spokesperson told Railfreight.com that a bridge was replaced in October last year and the railway line was renovated. Work is currently underway on the erection of acoustic screens to limit noise levels in residential and urban areas, which will be completed in the summer of 2025.
Detailed studies are now underway for Phase 2, the route of the new line having been chosen this Spring. However, no information has been disclosed on when construction work is due to start nor the timeframe for its completion, only that it will offer the possibility to triple rail freight traffic from three to four trains daily today to up to 15 round-trip trains daily by 2040. Read more
Source: RAILFREIGHT.COM
