{"id":16612,"date":"2025-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/lineas-and-railpool-extend-their-strategic-partnership-to-strengthen-rail-transport-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:00:00","slug":"lineas-and-railpool-extend-their-strategic-partnership-to-strengthen-rail-transport-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/lineas-and-railpool-extend-their-strategic-partnership-to-strengthen-rail-transport-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineas and Railpool extend their strategic partnership to strengthen rail transport in Europe."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Lineas, the largest private freight rail operator in Europe, and Railpool, one of Europe\u2019s leading locomotive leasing companies, have extended their partnership for another six years. Under the renewed agreement, Lineas will continue to operate 33 electric locomotives from Railpool\u2019s fleet, maintaining their current capacity and gaining the option to lease additional or new locomotive types in the future to meet changing shipper demands.<\/p>\n<p>The companies note that service flexibility and reliability are becoming key market requirements. According to Lineas Chief Operating Officer Alban Fran\u00e7ois, the partnership extension will allow Lineas to more effectively adapt to customers\u2019 logistics needs while maintaining the environmental benefits of rail transport, which has a significantly lower carbon footprint per tonne-kilometer compared to road transport. Railpool, for its part, continues to invest in locomotive modernization and maintenance, ensuring high availability and sustainability of operations.<\/p>\n<p>The parties emphasize that their joint efforts facilitate a modal shift \u2013 the transfer of freight flows from roads to rail. Both partners are investing in the development of environmentally friendly technologies, including hybrid solutions, alternative fuels, and energy efficiency measures, accelerating the transition to zero-emission rail transport.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lineas, the largest private freight rail operator in Europe, and Railpool, one of Europe\u2019s leading locomotive leasing companies, have extended their partnership for another six years. Under the renewed agreement, Lineas will continue to operate 33 electric locomotives from Railpool\u2019s fleet, maintaining their current capacity and gaining the option to lease additional or new locomotive types in the future to meet changing shipper demands.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}