This company was on the filing of balance

The approximation of SNCF and Geodis freight under the same management has expanded the multimodal ambition of the rail carrier: provide and use the most suitable to each delivery, not only the railway transport. The SNCF Geodis branch does not hesitate for example to study at this time a resumption of River Shuttle Containers (RSC), the CMA - CGM shipowner River shuttle. "The SNCF is majority on the Dourges multimodal platform." "River-rail must become a focus of significant development," says one of its leaders. In his great molt, the SNCF following the Deutsche Bahn-Schenker modèle: "this is a reference that we respectons, which took five years ahead of us in all areas and plays an important role in the combined with Kombiverkher", said Pierre Blayau, directeur General of SNCF Geodis.

Intermodal (or combined), optimized form of multimodal faster transfer of "boxes" from one mode to another, thus becomes one of the priorities of SNCF Geodis.

Strong decline in activity

In addition to the 7 billion euros that the State invests in infrastructure belonging to RFF, SNCF will add 1 billion, "for combined transport and railway highways, cars, Terminal, cost of new boot", explains Luc Nadal, head of the railway SNCF Geodis freight transportation center.

This pole, with turnover of us $ 2.5 billion before the crisis, has yet melted by 30 as a result of the conditions. It is divided into three subsets: alongside railway companies (Fret SNCF, VFLI, ITL Germany, and now Veolia Cargo off Hexagon) and Commissionaires of specialized transport, is a set of operators of combined.

In this set, which is despite the crisis "an operating margin positive from 2 to 3 by 2012", is the maritime container Naviland Cargo subsidiary (whose turnover fell 90 to 75 million euros and whose profitability went from green to red in 2009) and Froidcombi, joined by Novatrans, reproduced in part in the road. "This company was on the filing of balance." Volume declined again from 25 to 30 in 2009. "The reconstruction of the capital is the debts and (...) to redeploy its", explained its new Director General, Tarek Hosni, former President of the Executive Board for Giraud International. He sees five conditions to its "reconstruction": Terminal infrastructure sufficiently strengthened to be attractive (a blueprint of all will be soon published), the massification of flows (partners ensuring flows may enter in the management of terminals), furrows dedicated cargo, reliability and punctuality of the service, economic competitiveness and lines connected to Europe. "An operator cannot exist with connections and a European network and trains clean but also shared", said Tarek Hosni, who says that 25 of trains circulating in France are shared with the positioning of the shipyards and axes. "This partnership of decision-making risk, comparable to the"code sharing"of the air must be developed."But Pierre Blayau said: "For the moment we have no external growth in Europe project and nothing Switzerland happens" where the SNCF posted designs.

Mixed highways

The combination of SNCF Geodis will also concern rail freeways (Highway semi-trailers by railway transport). SNCF wants, here at the end of the year, taking the majority of Lorry Rail, which manages the Bettembourg-Perpignan line. "We will revive it on an economic basis," said Pierre Blayau, who said: "We will make a less expensive product." Need to lower the stalled and find volumes. "It will thus become a joint Highway carrying boxes than semi-trailers as well and could extend to end to Duisburg in the North and to Barcelona to the South. Finally, Naviland Cargo, Novatrans and railway highways will be "released order, streamlined and in synergy" by the joint management of terminals, the sharing of capabilities of the trains, even by organic rapprochement Naviland and Novatrans: financial directorates and HR, and then a possible merger by 2012. "The decision shall be taken only if it has a true sense and, in any event, retaining the two marks."