Getlink and CargoBeamer Team up to Launch the First Unaccompanied Cross-Channel Service by Rail
20 Septembre 2021 - 5:45PM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Getlink (Paris:GET):
Eurotunnel and CargoBeamer have signed a partnership which will
see the launch of a new, 100% unaccompanied rail freight transport
service across the Short Straits, from Calais to Ashford.
The extension of the rolling motorway from Perpignan to Ashford
is a logical step in developing a future international intermodal
network between the Channel and the Mediterranean. A second route
from Domodossola, in the Alps region, to Calais will also be
extended to Ashford after its launch in early October. Both new
railway services will prevent 8,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions1,
responding to the move to decarbonising freight transport and
promoting modal shift. The launch of an unaccompanied freight
service makes it possible to partially resolve the shortage of
truck drivers in the UK and Europe as well as relieving traffic
congestion on motorways.
This new service builds on the complementary expertise of both
companies. Getlink brings not only the speed, flexibility, and
reliability inherent in Eurotunnel Shuttle services, but also its
expertise in frictionless border crossings and carriage maintenance
at CargoBeamer Terminal in Calais through Europorte. CargoBeamer
offers its customers the benefit of its commercial and logistical
expertise through its rolling motorways from Perpignan and
Domodossola.
Christian Dufermont, Freight Commercial Director of
Eurotunnel, stated: “The signature of this partnership confirms
our freight commercial strategy and is concrete proof of our
customers’ increased interest in an unaccompanied cross-Channel
service that helps decarbonise their logistic chains and improves
flexibility.”
Nicolas Albrecht, Chief Business Development Officer of
CargoBeamer, added: “We value the cooperation between
Eurotunnel and CargoBeamer as another crucial step in developing
new relations around our recently opened terminal in Calais.
Connecting Europe and the UK by environmentally friendly rail is
highly important to achieve our mission of reducing the carbon
footprint of the logistics industry.”
Note to editors:
About Getlink
Getlink SE (Euronext Paris) manages, through its subsidiary
Eurotunnel, the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel and operates
truck and passenger Shuttle Services (cars and coaches) between
Folkestone (UK) and Calais (France). Eurotunnel is the concession
holder and operator of the Channel Tunnel, the fastest, most
reliable, easiest and most environmentally friendly way across the
English Channel until 2086. In 26 years, more than 460 million
people and more than 90 million vehicles have travelled through the
Channel Tunnel. This unique land link has become a vital link
between the continent and the United Kingdom. Getlink also offers a
rail freight business through its subsidiary Europorte, which
offers a wide range of integrated rail services, as well as an
electrical interconnection through its subsidiary ElecLink.
https://www.getlinkgroup.com
About CargoBeamer:
The CargoBeamer Group is a logistics service provider in the
“combined transportation road-rail segment” based in Leipzig,
Germany. Thanks to the company's technology of railcars, handling
terminals and logistics software nearly all standard semi-trailers
of all types can use the train – without additional conversions and
reinforcements for the trailer and even without a driver and
tractor unit. CargoBeamer trains currently run on four different
routes including locations in Germany, France, Italy and Poland. In
the medium-term CargoBeamer will realize a European route-network
of high-performing and innovative transhipment facilities at
important transport hubs. This will secure sustainable
rail-transport for hundreds of thousands of semi-trailers per year
– reducing CO2-emissions and relieving environment and society.
1 Assuming two trains per week and compared to a travel made by
road and ferry between Perpignan and Ashford via Sheerness.
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Getlink:
For UK media enquiries John Keefe on + 44 (0) 1303 284491
Email: press@getlinkgroup.com
For other media enquiries Anne-Laure Desclèves on +33(0)1
4098 0467
For investor enquiries Jean-Baptiste Roussille on +33
(0)1 40 98 04 81 Email:
jean-baptiste.roussille@getlinkgroup.com
Michael Schuller on +44 (0) 1303 288749 Email:
Michael.schuller@getlinkgroup.com
Contact for CargoBeamer:
For media enquiries contact Tim Krause on +49 (0) 341
652339 -19 Email: press@cargobeamer.com
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