VFLI

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Groupe VFLI
Founded 1998
Headquarters Paris, France
Owner SNCF (via Transport et Logistique Partenaires S.A.S.[1])
Parent SNCF Geodis
Website www.vfli.fr
www.groupe-vfli.com

The Voies Ferrées Locales et Industrielles (VFLI) is a French freight rail company, a subsidiary of SNCF in the SNCF Geodis logistics group.

The company was formed in 1998 as a low cost short line and industrial railway operator.

The subsidiary Fertis operated construction trains on the LGV Est up to 2007.

From 2007 on, SNCF developed VFLI into a full-fledged freight railway.[2]

History

VFLI was created in 1998 as a subsidiary of the holding company SNCF Participations to operate as a low cost operation,[3] initially the company took over the operations of two industrial railway systems: Voies Ferrées des Landes (VFL) and Mines Dominiales de Potasse d'Alsace.[4][5]

In 2000 the company began a joint venture with Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux (CFD) called Voies Ferrées du Morvan to operate the 87 km Avallon-Autun railway line,[3] and in 2001 took over operations on the Houllières du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL) via a subsidiary 'VFLI Cargo.[3]

Up to 2007 the company was involved in the construction of LGV Est through the subsidiary Fertis.[5][note 1]

In 2007, VFLI got the certification to run trains on the full extent of the French national railway network owned by Réseau Ferré de France.[7]

By 2008 the company was providing services for around forty industrial sites, with clients having included Rhodia, Arkema, Arcelor,[note 2] Renault and Coke de Carling,[5] Ciments français, Lafarge, Elf, Port Edouard Herriot (Lyon), ALZ, Smurfit SCF in Facture and PSA (in Trnava, Slovakia),[8] other contracts included transport of combustion waste from Protires waste processing plant in Strasbourg, work sub-contracted from SNCF and transportation from ports.[5]

Current operations

As of 2012 VFLI's operations are in four main areas: main rail freight in France ; rail freight operations at industrial sites; rail infrastructure train haulage; and short haul operations including port railways.[2]

Main line freight rail accounted in 2011 for nearly two thirds of VFLI's turnover, representing a turnover of 67.7 million Euros, compared to 5.4 million Euros in 2007.[9]

Rolling stock and facilities

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In 2010 VFLI owned ~100 diesel locomotives, mostly shunting and short trip locomotives.[3][10] as well as ~800 wagons.[3]

The company also operates rolling stock workshops, carrying out maintenance and refurbishment.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Fertis hired ex-British Rail Class 56s and Class 58 locomotives from EWS (UK) to work the construction trains.[6]
  2. ↑ Contract ended late 2007.[7]

References

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