Cherbourg-Bayonne

Captrain and Brittany Ferries team up to take trucks off the road

The port of Cherbourg. Image: © Ports de Normandie

Captrain France and Brittany Ferries have launched a new rail freight service for semi-trailers, taking 24,000 trucks off the road yearly between Cherbourg and Bayonne, in the south of France. The rail highway has been long in the works.

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