At the end of this year, Fret SCNF, the historic freight transport of the French railway group SNCF, will cease to exist. At the beginning of 2025, in fact, the activities of the company will be divided between the new companies Hexafret, which will be the rail freight operator of the transalpine group, and Technis, which will take care of the maintenance of the locomotive fleet. The French railway group announced this transformation explaining that the operation is aimed at preventing Fret SNCF from having to repay the 5.3 billion euro of debt accumulated by the company between 2007 and 2019, the year in which its transformation into a commercial company took place, debt that is the subject of the investigation launched at the beginning of the 2023 by the European Commission against the French State on the potential State aid measures in favour of Fret SNCF.

Starting from next January 1st, therefore, the two new companies will be integrated into Rail Logistics Europe, which from the same day it will group the activities in the logistics sector of the French railway group, with Hexafret and Captrain as railway companies, Technis as locomotive maintainer, Forwardis as a shipments and with VIIA and Naviland Cargo active in the transport segment combined road-rail.