Transfesa Logistics has a new international rail connection in Dourges, south of Lille (France). The service stops there between two and three times a week, in both directions, to unload containers that come from Spain.
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(09/03/2021)
The service, which began in mid-2020 with a weekly stop, offers mixed, multi-product trains to transport goods to France and other countries in Europe, and opens up the possibility of increasing routes with the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Part of the train is empty at Dourges, so it can be used to reload goods to various destinations around Europe. Likewise, there is the possibility of forming larger compositions with units from other companies.
In the next stages operations will be expanded to reach three or four regular stops a week in both directions. In this first stage, 90% of the operations depart from Barcelona and Valencia. The routes are used to transport fruit and vegetables, oil, as well as automotive components and tanks. The goal is to use this connection for the export of the winter fruit and vegetable produce and reach a volume of 40 weekly loads of refrigerated goods to deliver to Belgium and the Netherlands. Likewise, about 10 tanks are being transported weekly.
One advantage of the stop in Dourges is that merchandise can be transported between the north of France and England. This connection simplifies the transit of goods to the United Kingdom and avoids the bottlenecks that trucks suffer daily, since the first authorised entry point for the train is Barking, to the east of London.
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