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The ideal solution for forwarding your products quickly and cost-efficiently while also reducing your CO2 emissions. We convey all types of freight (heavy goods, swap bodies, perishable waste, aggregates and hazardous substances) and we adapt to your needs according to your payloads, frequency requirements and delivery locations.
A national operator with a strong regional presence, we provide collection services to respond to specific local needs and requirements.
For your intermittent transport needs, we are equipped with sufficient human and material means that can be rapidly mobilized in order to provide on-the-spot solutions to respond to your peak business needs, volume variations and seasonal campaigns, thereby ensuring that you maintain total flexibility at all times.
Since 2010, CAPTRAIN France has been conveying bottled water from Vittel and Contrexéville to Nestlé Waters’ French distribution sites in Arles and Merrey and to all four corners of Northern Europe.
In 2020, Nestlé Waters entrusted us with its entire traffic flow from the Vosges region to two new destinations in Montreuil-Bellay and Worms.
We are currently operating 700 trains per year for Nestlé Waters, thereby handling the lion’s share of our client’s rail traffic for the Vittel, Contrexéville and Hépar brands.
GEFCO, the European leader for automobile transport solutions entered into a partnership agreement with CAPTRAIN France in January 2016.
Under the terms of this agreement, we transport the flagship models of the Peugeot and Citroën brands from their production plants at Ile Napoléon (68) and Sochaux Montbéliard (25) to the greater western region of France (Rennes) from where they are also forwarded to South America. On average, we run 5 weekly train services to & from the region, for an annual total of close on 220 trains. Convinced by the quality and competitiveness of our solutions, GEFCO decided to grant us a new 3-year deal to handle its vehicle conveyance needs to the south of the country, with 3 or 4 trains running each week from the aforementioned factories to its distribution centres in Miramas and Fos-sur-Mer.
Our traffic operates as a shuttle service with set loading days and meets the need for just-in-time deliveries so as to ensure regular supply to distributors, thereby addressing two key requirements of the automobile industry, i.e. reliability and reactivity. In addition, we take the greatest care of all goods that are entrusted to us and provide a guarantee that vehicles are transported in conditions of utmost safety & security (protecting against damage and theft) from pick-up at the point of production through to the delivery site, where they are unloaded by GEFCO’s handlers. The fact that each complete train represents a market value of around 6.5 million euros bears witness to our client’s faith in the quality of service provided by CAPTRAIN France and its teams.
CAPTRAIN France operates the daily transfer of waste from the collection platforms to the energy enhancement plant located in Villers-Saint-Paul. This collaboration was born from the local authorities’ desire to reduce the noise, traffic and pollution associated with the transport of waste by road in & around the town of Compiègne. Each year, over 100 000 tonnes of household waste are conveyed by rail, a figure soon to rise to 165 000 tonnes with the opening of a new road-rail transfer platform close to Beauvais.
Since September 2018, CAPTRAIN France has been transporting chalk aggregates for building and civil engineering purposes from the client’s quarry located in Ferques (62) to its unloading platform in Mitry (77). This traffic amounts to some 184 rotations per week.
