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Combined Transport

Combined transport: think railway

Are you looking for an ecological, simple, effective solution for your container shipments, swap bodies and trailers (Autoroute Ferroviaire on the Bettembourg-Perpignan and Aiton-Orbassano routes)?
Do you have strong delivery deadline, tracking and transport quality requirements?

Our role: we give you a leg up!


Combined Transport Fret SNCFContainers, swap bodies, trailers, fruits and vegetables, automobile parts, press and express parcels? Whatever your transport needs, our materials and experience are at your service.

Expertise for the long haul


Are you looking for the best capacity and highest reliability with the best quality-price ratio. By choosing combined transport, you get the best of road and rail, and you benefit from optimized road, river, maritime and rail production facilities.

Our response to these requirements carries 3 imperatives:

Combined Transport is...

35,000 trains per year
30 active multi-technical terminals
60% international traffic
92% one hour reliability
100 to 160 km/h commercial speed.

Capacity: customization

We build personalized transport plans for you, to provide you the carrying capacity you need.

Reliability: high capacity deliveries!

In the context of Haut Débit Ferroviaire (High Railway Capacity), we will do everything we can to offer you optimized lead times:

  • Thanks to our high commercial speed, the majority of domestic deliveries are made overnight, Day A evening ? Day B morning, making combined routing lead times shorter or equivalent to road lead times. Our connections are guaranteed, with a reliability rate equal to, and even greater than road.

    Express Combined Freight division: a dynamic partner!

    Fret SNCF is a member of major international organizations:

    -Groupement Européen des Transports Combinés (GETC)

    - Union Internationale Rail Route (UIRR).


    Fret SNCF belongs to and is an active member of the Groupement National des Transports Combinés (GNTC).

    As a result:

    we are in permanent contact with key market players: companies, operators, institutions?

    - we use a shared approach to quality to work with all the players;

    - our customers receive positive benefits from the discussions GNTC participates in (line reopenings).

  • With locomotives dedicated to this activity and mechanics specialized in combined transport, we are familiar with market requirements and focused on the quality necessary to successfully carry out our common projects.

Competitiveness: structural visibility

Our commercial and design teams work with you to structure and group your flows, so you can provide your customers with a long-term manufacturing offer.

International: special access

We have woven partnership relationships with most of the Railway Companies, allowing us to offer you end-to-end routing solutions. Furthermore, we are developing our own expertise by acquiring safety certificates from several countries. Ever since, we have been offering end-to-end service, particularly with the major developed industrial areas (Benelux, Germany, Italy).

A single carrier, we route your merchandise end-to-end, with no break bulk at the border.

Our offer

Our offer is built around trains sold as round trip, with a minimum of one trip per week; this to provide optimum productivity and service quality to our customers.

Nearby services


A radiation network

Our regional correspondents stand ready to serve you and ensure on-going monitoring of train quality.
We link some thirty active multi-technical terminals in France, of the following types:

  • maritime port and river port;
  • dry port;
  • terminals in ports and near population centers (ex.: Valenton, beside Paris).

A personalized relashionship!

Our operational relays ensure the monitoring of the service, and a daily relationship with your teams and providers, allowing better traceability and locating of trains.

Simplified processes

You entrust your merchandise to us and:

  • we integrate your cargo into a dedicated transport plan;
  • your products are routed with our specific means of transport: locomotives, agents specially working for combined transport.

The green version of quality


Combined transport is the green solution for routing your merchandise.
Our Combi-Express division is fully integrated into a sustainable development logic and meets all your requirements in terms of:

  • Quality
  • Cleanliness

A winning pair!

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