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RAIL4CHEM was a German rail freight transport company, and the parent company of a number of European subsidiary rail freight transport companies including ''rail4chem Benelux B.V.'' (Rotterdam), the ''rail4chem transalpin AG'' (Basel) and ''Fer Polska S.A.'' (Warsaw). The business was acquired by Veolia Cargo in 2008, which was acquired by SNCF in 2009. In 2010 the company was grouped under SNCF's new freight train brand Captrain, and absorbed into the ''Captrain Deutschland'' subdivision, and became a provider to the division of long distance freight trains. ==History== In 2000 the railway company RAIL4CHEM was founded as a joint venture between three German companies: BASF AG (Ludwigshafen), and (both located in Hamburg) and one Swiss firm Bertschi AG; headquartered in Dürrenäsch. Hoyer merged its rail freight subsidiary (''Hoyer Railserv'', formed 2000 from ''RSE Cargo''.) into the company in 2002. Initially the company was set up as a rail freight service for chemical companies, the organisation serves both national and international freight movements within Europe. Amongst the first workings were the movement of chemicals from the works at BASF Ludwigshafen to Aachen to be moved further by the Belgian state railway SNCB / NMBS. Later the company took on non-chemical industry freight work. In 2004 the company gained a safety certificate to operate in the Netherlands, and in Switzerland. In 2005 the founder companies increased the capital of the company by €4 million to €5 million to enable the purchase of multi-system electric locomotives. Safety certificate for operations in Belgium was acquired (by the subsidiary Rail4chem Benelux BV) in January 2006, and for operations in France in February 2006, On 20 February 2008 it was announced that the business was to be sold to the French company Veolia Cargo for an undisclosed sum.〔(Veolia on track to take over Rail4chem ) ''vinamaso.net''〕〔(Veolia to acquire Rail4Chem ) ''transportweekly.com''〕 Veolia Cargo was acquired by SNCF (and Eurotunnel), with Rail4chem becoming part of SNCF; it was reorganised into the Captrain railfreight operation division of SNCF. The business underperformed during the difficult market conditions following the late-2000s financial crisis and was absorbed into the Captrain deutschland division in 2010. ''RAIL4CHEM'' was a founder member of the European Bulls Rail Freight Alliance, a European consortium of European rail freight operating companies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAIL4CHEM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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