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Belgium Wagonload revival

Now restructured under majority private investor ownership, B Logistics is forging ahead investing heavily in walk load freight services on priority European corridors. Privatised in March, the former freight division of Belgium's national railway, B Logistics strategy is that effective partnerships on core corridors can sustain less-than-trainload freight. It's 'Green Xpress' network consolidates consignments from big traffic sources such as ports as Zeebrugge, Rotterdam and Antwerp and offers standard shipment times on fixed routes with minimal intermediate remarshalling. Frequencies on four routes vary from two and four return trains a week.

We read it in: Railway Gazette International, Intelligence Analysis