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Europorte E37500

Europorte, operator from France, acquired all 'French' activities of Veolia Cargo in 2009. They also took over six Prima electrics from the Veolia fleet.

Alstom	CON 001	2006	Prima EL3U	Bo'Bo'-el	E 37501
Alstom	CON 002	2006	Prima EL3U	Bo'Bo'-el	E 37502
Alstom	CON 003	2006	Prima EL3U	Bo'Bo'-el	E 37503
Alstom	CON 004	2006	Prima EL3U	Bo'Bo'-el	E 37504
Alstom	CON 005	2006	Prima EL3U	Bo'Bo'-el	E 37505
Alstom	CON 009	2008	Prima EL3U	Bo'Bo'-el	E 37509

Europorte E37500: news

2012-06-03

[FR] Alstom to maintain Europorte Prima fleet [updated]

update 2012|06|03

[FR] Alstom to maintain Europorte Prima fleet [updated]

Now we have the Europorte press statement, telling us more interesting things:

'Europorte, the rail freight subsidiary of the Eurotunnel Group, and Alstom have signed a partnership agreement covering the maintenance of 17 Alstom manufactured Prima locomotives now operated by Europorte.

Within this framework, the two partners will improve the management and availability of the Europorte locomotive fleet. To do this, they will analyse existing processes; optimise maintenance cycles, interventions on the locomotives and the equipment of the maintenance sites. They will work to reduce the transport to depot time and the locomotive down time to generate significant productivity improvements.

With the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) now applicable to the Channel Tunnel, the two partners are planning to organise homologation tests for the new generation of Alstom Prima II locomotives in the autumn of 2012.'

2010-03-18

[FR] Europorte rebranding

update 2010|03|18

[FR] Europorte rebranding

In France, Europorte is also rebranding former Veolia locomotives, like E 37506 in the picture. We know about E 37513, any more units with new vinyls? - VT

2010-02-12

[EU] Europorte and Captrain... [updated x2]

update 2010|02|12

[EU] Europorte and Captrain... [updated x2]

GEODIS-SNCF and Eurotunnel have split the catch.. The Veolia Cargo companies are now merged into new organisational structures. EuroTunnel merges the French parts with its own Europorte 2 activities, Europorte will be the new and leading name here. Fret SCNF combines most of its newly acquired parts with other foreign parts already part of the concern. Captrain is introduced here as new brand.

However, things get complicated... In order to keep some overview we made a list of all parts of te organisations that will change name, combined with those we are sure of that they won't. Here it is (updated 17.00 CET):

Veolia Cargo companies, taken over by Eurotunnel:

Veolia Cargo France SAS > Europorte France
Veolia Cargo Link > Europorte Link
CFTA Cargo > Europorte Proximity
Socorail > Socorail

already property of Eurotunnel:

Europorte 2 > Europorte Channel

taken over by SNCF:

Veolia Cargo Deutschland > Captrain Deutschland
Veolia Cargo Nederland > Captrain Netherlands
Veolia Cargo Belgium > to be deleted
Veolia Cargo Italia > merged into Captrain Italia
Veolia Cargo SAS > still Veolia Cargo SAS, but will be deleted
Freight Europe UK > Captrain UK
Rail4Chem disappears as brand asap

At this moment, Captrain Benelux is the name for all activities in the Netherlands and Belgium. Finally it will be merged into Captrain Netherlands.

already property of SNCF:

Fret SNCF > Fret SNCF
SNCF Fret Benelux > Captrain Belgium
SNCF Fret Deutschland > merged into Captrain Deutschland
SNCF Fret Italia > merged into Captrain Italia

VFLI France > VFLI France
VFLI Romania > Captrain Romania

ITL Eisenbahn (Dresden) > ITL Eisenbahn
ITL-Cargo > ITL-Cargo
DBV-ITL > DBV-ITL
ITL-Železniční společnost Praha > ITL-Železniční společnost Praha
ITL Polska > ITL Polska
ITL Benelux > Captrain Benelux

If there are remarks, please let us know!

2010-01-31

[FR] Europorte presents its new corporate structure/identity..

update 2010|01|31

[FR] Europorte presents its new corporate structure/identity..

Without our permission, Eurotunnel presents a visual of a Prima electric on its website, giving away their idea about the future livery of Eurotunnel operated Prima locomotives. Eurotunnel acquired the French divisions of Veolia Cargo and has restructured them:

Veolia Cargo France SAS > Europorte France
Veolia Cargo Link > Europorte Link
CFTA Cargo > Europorte Proximity
Europorte 2 > Europorte Channel
Socorail > Socorail

Veolia Cargo SAS (from Nanterre, which name is not changed up till now) is the company which owns/hires the red/grey Prima locomotives. Veolia Cargo France SAS (from Paris) operated several of them, which is now continued under the name of Europorte France. - LC/KAR