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State package will boost French rail freight

By 2009-09-24T09:00:00

Freight train.

FRANCE: Keen to implement strat­egies arising from its Grenelle de l’Environnement, the French government unveiled on September 16 a €7bn package of measures to reverse the decline in rail’s share of the freight market over the next decade. At present road carries 86%, a figure that the government aims to ...

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