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wagon and locomotive rental, picking, technology and training. The different types of transport are: block train, single wagonload (distributed transport), intermodal units, pallets, exceptional transport and the Green Xpress
Network. The Green Xpress Network (GXN) offers 23 rail connections between European economic hubs. GXN combines different types of freight of large and small volumes into a single train.
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During June 2023, Linease announced that it was combining its various Dutch businesses into a single entity. Around the same time, the company’s two shareholders, the French investment fund Argos Wityu (90%) and the
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Lineas offers products and services for freight transportation throughout Europe. The organisation offers logistics services, including first and last mile delivery by rail, truck or inland waterway and GXN long distance. Other services of the company are: maintenance, fleet management, fleet advice,
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By 2017, Lineas had more than 7,000 wagons and 250 locomotives. During the late 2010s, the company was engaged in a fleet expansion that was largely targeted at the international freight market. Throughout the 2020s, hundreds of Lineas' locomotives were being retrofitted with ETCS. Starting in 2021,
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and NMBS/SNCB-Holding. Until 2011, rail freight transport activities were a division of NBMS/SNCB, which operated under the name B-Cargo. Under NMBS/SNCB, B-Cargo was a loss-making division. In 2011, B-Cargo became a subsidiary called NMBS/SNCB Logistics. Privatisation took place in 2015, under the
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is the largest private rail freight operator in Europe. Headquartered in
Belgium, it also operates from various sites across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. The Federal Holding and Investment Company (Federale Participatie- en Investeringsmaatschappij) holds 10% of the shares.
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Belgian mobility; by the following year, the company was reportedly removing 5,300 containers every week from Antwerp's road traffic (compared to 2,600 before). Two years later, Lineas commenced a new container train between Interface Terminal of the North Sea Port and the Pesanti terminal in
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The primary business activity of Lineas is the transport of goods by rail. The company has proclaimed its ambition to realise a ‘modal shift’ in Europe, moving a greater amount of freight off the road and onto rail. In 2014, Lineas launched the Green Xpress
Network (GXN) with 23 rail connections
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Sustainable Business Charter (VCDO). As a result of the charter, the company was the first Belgian transport company to receive the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Certificate for Sustainable Business in October 2020. Lineas was also
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February 2020, Geert Pauwels won the European Railway Award. He received the award because of the transformation of a loss-making division of the Belgian railways into a profitable private rail freight operator. On 9 April 2020, Lineas unveiled a white locomotive, the 'Heroes Loc', in the
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Freight Forward, the coalition of European rail freight companies aiming to reduce the negative impact of freight transport on mobility, climate and the environment by shifting freight from road to rail. The coalition aims to increase the
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name B Logistics and with investments from the independent private equity group Argos Wityu. Prior to privatisation, the company was not profitable; however, profitability soon increased. In early 2017, B Logistics changed its name to
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demonstrated a highly autonomous shunting locomotive. During January 2023, the company announced that within two years, it would be operating automated freight services on the Betuweroute freight line in the Netherlands.
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of rail freight in Europe from 18% in 2020 to 30% by 2030.
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1180:"Lineas looking for major injection of capital"
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1151:"Lineas merges Dutch subsidiaries"
824:. railway.supply. 21 January 2021.
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