News / Brittany Ferries intermodal 'freight motorway' initiative back on track

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Brittany Ferries has announced the 2024 launch of a rail freight ’motorway’ service for unaccompanied trailers, running between the Normandy port of Cherbourg and Bayonne, in the French Basque region, a voyage of almost 1,000 km.

The aim, it said, was to link up with the freight markets in the UK, Ireland and Spain.

The “seamless transport” of unaccompanied trailers from Ireland (Rosslare) and the UK (Poole and Portsmouth) to the Iberian peninsula and vice versa, via France’s Atlantic corridor, would reduce ...