Hexafret: France's leading rail freight company
With both regular and flexible solutions adapted to the volumes and frequency of deliveries required, Hexafret provides freight transport that meets the challenges of its customers. By offering high-performance rail solutions designed to shift more goods on trains, the company contibutes to the decarbonization of supply chain.
As a key player in the ecological transition, Hexafret promotes environmentally friendly transport, eliminating the need for over one million long-haul trucks on the roads each year, equivalent to approximately 800,000 tons of CO2. Compared to road transport, Hexafret delivers:
6x
less energy consumed
8x
less air pollution
14x
fewer CO2 emissions
Tailor-made transport solutions
As France's leading rail freight company, we design customized transport solutions. Our unique approach is based on a shared transport plan with predefined capacity axes, enabling us to meet all your transport needs, whatever the volume and frequency.
1,300
rail services annually to logistics hubs and factories
Unique geographic coverage
Our trains load various types of wagons and goods via terminal service platforms that irrigate the territories. As the main operator of single wagonload in France, Hexafret is present on the entire network and manage end-to-end flow for a seamless service in more than 20 countries across Europe.
A commercial team close to the field
Our commercial teams are organized by market and sector of activity in order to:
- Better understand your expectations and client needs;
- Offer transport solutions adapted to your market.
Hexafret transports for every market
- Steel industry: flat products, long products, scraps…
- Bulk solid: quarry products, construction, minerals, cereals, fertilizers, sugars…
- Chemistry: chlorine, fine chemicals for pharmaceuticals…
- Bulk liquid: food bulk, gases, fuels
- Automotive and consumer goods: palletized products
- Special and exceptional transports: military, wind turbine blades, trams, metros, agricultural construction machinery...
35
billion tonne-kilometres transported per year
Safety and security are integral to our operations, as demonstrated by our high SQAS rating.
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