Ekol Logistics launches Sete-Paris train line

Ekol Logistics has put the Sete-Paris train line into service: Ekol Logistics has added a new one to its electric block train services used within the scope of intermodal transportation service.
Ekol, which aims to ensure sustainable development by developing environmentally friendly business processes and projects, has added a new one to the electric block train services used within the scope of intermodal transportation service. Italy, Trieste, Germany, Cologne and Ludwigshafen cities, Czech Republic's Ostrava, France, the city of Sete a weekly total 44 block train service between the Sete-Paris line was also included.
Ekol, which carries approximately 1.500 trailers and containers per week with rail connections throughout Europe, plans to expand the Sete-Paris line, which operates one day a week, to two flights in 2017. Ekol, aiming to add a new Ro-Ro to its existing sea route connection between Izmir and Sete in 2017, continues its efforts to connect Sete Port to the UK, Benelux countries and Germany in cooperation with VIIA, Europe's leading railway operator.
Regarding the commissioned Sete-Paris train line, Ekol Logistics Transport Group General Manager Murat Boğ; "Railways in the direction in accordance with the north-south mega trailers in France thanks to this line is the first product of the transportation corridor Turkey and Iran's European connection, and the North African countries are hedefiy strengthen their links with Paris. With this new connection, which we will consider as an important green logistics investment, we will achieve a reduction of 180.000 kg CO2 in monthly emissions and save a forest the size of 20 football fields ”.