Today, 5 October 2021, the Connecting Europe Express will reach Luxembourg for an afternoon dedicated to rail freight and intermodality. Home to CFL’s (Compagnie des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois) modern Bettembourg intermodal terminal, Luxembourg was selected by the European Commission as the ideal location for a conference promoting the role given to rail freight in its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy. A tour of the terminal will demonstrate the various transhipment techniques available there to transfer cargo from road to rail and underline the crucial importance of ‘truck-train interoperability’ when it comes to developing ‘rail-road intermodality’. (....)