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They've arrived, they're all here.
The express freight operators of Lyon Saint Exupery airport.
Here to take part in the first real-life test of the Carex project.
A project whose idea is simple: to use the TGV to transport
goods between major European airports.
The idea is primarily to avoid night-runs
by cargo-only lorries or aircraft,
starting with express freight.
Using high-speed trains,
present in all of Europe,
and with access to all major airports,
and their rails, which have been specifically made
to carry air-freight pallets and containers.
5 European airport platforms are part of this project.
As well as Saint Exupery, partners include Roissy, Li夙e, London,
and Schiphol in Holland.
Carex offers all airports an opportunity
for significant external growth.
What is important is to create business, but green business.
In other words, to reduce the amount of CO2 and
noise pollution for the local community
by lowering the number of lorries and planes,
whilst allowing for economic development.
Sustainable development also means economic development,
respecting the environment and creating jobs.
Carex is all of that!
So behind the business side of the project,
Carex finds it equally important to reduce
environmental impacts of freight transportation
The transportation of one pallet with Carex
means 35 times fewer C02 emissions
than a lorry and plane in the chain of logistics.
So this has an environmental objective.
The La Poste TGV, revamped for the occasion
with the colours of all the partners of this project,
arrived effortlessly in London from Saint Exupery station.
The test carried out at the end of March was a symbolic one.
For the Carex developers,
the idea was to show the project's viablility.
This project could become a reality in 2017-2018.