Europe has spent decades trying to shift freight from road to rail. Yet today, around three quarters of inland freight still travels by road, while congestion, driver shortages and transport emissions continue to grow.
What if the biggest obstacle isn’t rail itself – but the way cargo moves between trucks and trains?
This was the focus of a recent meeting between ALICE and Danish company Safe Green Logistics (SGL). During the discussion, Fernando Liesa, Secretary General of ALICE, met with SGL founder Heine Blach Jensen to explore how the company’s Container Transfer System (CTS) could help make intermodal freight transport faster, simpler and more commercially attractive.
Rather than reinventing rail transport, Safe Green Logistics has reimagined one of its biggest bottlenecks: transferring containers between road and rail.
The problem: intermodal transport is still too slow and expensive
Rail remains one of the most sustainable ways to move freight over long distances, but transferring cargo between trucks and trains often requires large terminals, heavy cranes, specialised equipment and significant handling time. (....)