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CFL cargo S.A.

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Type
National operator — The group's conventional-freight railway undertaking, born of the merger of CFL's freight division with the internal transport department of ArcelorMittal's Luxembourg production sites. It holds a single safety certificate for freight on the national network, valid to 28 October 2026, and operates through ten companies in four countries with its sister company CFL multimodal
Market · Region
European Union · Luxembourg
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Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance

CFL freight subsidiary offering rail freight, intermodal transport and logistics with €291.3 million turnover.

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A railway undertaking serving the major European rail axes with the support of subsidiaries in France and Germany, offering combined and conventional rail transport, wagon maintenance, road haulage and chartering, warehousing, bespoke logistics and customs agency. The CFL group's freight activities turned over EUR 291.3 million in 2025, up 3.7 per cent, and Groupe CFL cargo posted a record net result of EUR 13.3 million, EUR 6.1 million more than in 2024; new contracts in 2025 were with TotalEnergies through CFL cargo Deutschland, Saarstahl Rail through CFL cargo France, the Holcim group through CFL cargo Belgium, and for the traction of the Bettembourg–Le Boulou rolling-motorway trains. Luxembourg's national rail freight was 7,299 thousand tonnes and 214 million tonne-kilometres in 2025.

Type
National operator — The group's conventional-freight railway undertaking, born of the merger of CFL's freight division with the internal transport department of ArcelorMittal's Luxembourg production sites. It holds a single safety certificate for freight on the national network, valid to 28 October 2026, and operates through ten companies in four countries with its sister company CFL multimodal
Where
Luxembourg · Dudelange
Programmes
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Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance

Structure

  • regulated by ACF — CFL cargo S.A. holds a single safety certificate for freight operations valid to 28 October 2026; the ACF's 2025 report lists only two other freight certificate holders on the national network, LINEAS of Belgium and Hexafret of France (active · since 2024)
  • owned by CFL — CFL cargo is a CFL group company, born of the merger of CFL's freight division with the internal transport department of ArcelorMittal's Luxembourg production sites; CFL states it has eleven subsidiaries in freight (active · since 2024)
Sources for these relationships (4)
  • ● ACF, Rapport d'activite ferroviaire 2025 · 24-page activity report published by the ACF, downloaded as a 1.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Table 1 lists the certified rail actors using the national rail network: CFL Gestionnaire Infrastructure (Luxembourg) holds a safety authorisation valid to 16.04.2028; CFL Entreprise ferroviaire (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for passenger operations to 29.07.2029; CFL cargo S.A. (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for freight to 28.10.2026; LINEAS (Belgium) a single freight certificate to 18.03.2026; Hexafret (France) a single freight certificate to 27.10.2029. Chapter 4: the Sillons division handled 50,391 path orders in 2025, representing 319,887 train runs, with 1,353 no-shows of which 20 per cent passenger, 35 per cent freight and 45 per cent infrastructure manager; 56.6 per cent of path orders were cancellations; 1,004 medium- and short-term train notices and 8,223 very-short-term train notices were issued and 660 short-term works notices checked and validated. Of all train categories run, 58 per cent were passenger (V140 47 per cent, HPV140 11 per cent), 39 per cent freight and 3 per cent infrastructure-manager. Chapter 3: the two tram safety documents were renewed in 2022 for five years to 28.11.2027; no new tram was authorised in 2025; since 2017 the ACF has authorised 33 seven-section Urbos trams, one multifunction road-rail vehicle and one road-rail sweeper; on 28 February 2025 the ACF issued the entry-into-service authorisation for the structural subsystems of section E, Luxexpo to Findel Luxembourg Airport, under identification number LU 60 2025 5001, adding the stations 'Heienhaff P+R' and 'Findel-Luxembourg Airport' over 3.9 km and linking Kirchberg to the airport; 192 tram-driver licences have been issued since 2017. The ACF has held an ISO 9001 certificate since 2015, the current one valid 20.12.2024 to 10.12.2027 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● CFL Group — Filiales · The group's subsidiaries page: CFL cargo ('nee de la fusion entre la division fret de la Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) et le departement de transport interne des sites de production luxembourgeois d'ArcelorMittal'), CFL Mobility (car-sharing, created 2017, 16 staff), CFL multimodal, CFL cactus shoppi (created 2022, 51 per cent CFL-owned, convenience retail in stations), Lorry-Rail (unaccompanied rolling-motorway services), NEG Niebuell (the group holds 25.1 per cent of a passenger railway undertaking in northern Germany) and CFL Immo (management and development of the State's and CFL's railway estate) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● CFL Group — CFL cargo · 'CFL cargo, avec sa societe soeur CFL multimodal, est un prestataire de services qui couvre l'entierete de la chaine logistique multimodale. Fort d'une presence europeenne au travers de 10 societes implantees dans 4 pays, CFL cargo et CFL multimodal offrent une gamme de services en transport et logistique ... En tant qu'entreprise ferroviaire et avec le support de ses filiales en France et Allemagne, CFL cargo dessert les axes ferroviaires majeurs en Europe.' Published desk: Terminal intermodal, Eurohub Sud, Site 100, Z.A.E. Wolser E, L-3437 Dudelange; tel +352 4996 0001, Monday to Friday 08:00-18:00; info@cflcargo.lu (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● CFL Group — Qui sommes-nous · 'Creee en 1946, la Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois fait aujourd'hui partie des principaux acteurs economiques du Grand-Duche, en tant qu'epine dorsale du transport en commun national et transfrontalier. Ses actionnaires sont le Grand-Duche de Luxembourg (94%), la Belgique (4%) et la France (2%). Fort d'un ensemble de nombreuses filiales dont 11 dans le domaine des activites fret et de plus de 4.900 collaborateurs, le Groupe CFL se positionne parmi les employeurs les plus importants du pays.' The page gives the group's three principal missions as passenger transport, railway infrastructure management and freight transport (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

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  • ● CFL Group — CFL cargo · 'CFL cargo, avec sa societe soeur CFL multimodal, est un prestataire de services qui couvre l'entierete de la chaine logistique multimodale. Fort d'une presence europeenne au travers de 10 societes implantees dans 4 pays, CFL cargo et CFL multimodal offrent une gamme de services en transport et logistique ... En tant qu'entreprise ferroviaire et avec le support de ses filiales en France et Allemagne, CFL cargo dessert les axes ferroviaires majeurs en Europe.' Published desk: Terminal intermodal, Eurohub Sud, Site 100, Z.A.E. Wolser E, L-3437 Dudelange; tel +352 4996 0001, Monday to Friday 08:00-18:00; info@cflcargo.lu (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● CFL Group — Filiales · The group's subsidiaries page: CFL cargo ('nee de la fusion entre la division fret de la Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) et le departement de transport interne des sites de production luxembourgeois d'ArcelorMittal'), CFL Mobility (car-sharing, created 2017, 16 staff), CFL multimodal, CFL cactus shoppi (created 2022, 51 per cent CFL-owned, convenience retail in stations), Lorry-Rail (unaccompanied rolling-motorway services), NEG Niebuell (the group holds 25.1 per cent of a passenger railway undertaking in northern Germany) and CFL Immo (management and development of the State's and CFL's railway estate) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● CFL, press release on the 2025 annual report, 15 June 2026 · Four-page press release from the CFL Service Communication, 16 boulevard d'Avranches, L-1160 Luxembourg, dated Luxembourg, 15 June 2026, downloaded as a PDF on 14 September 2026. Investment: 'investissements propres a 158,9 millions d'euros notamment pour l'acquisition de nouveaux trains ou d'investissements dans l'infrastructure ferroviaire pour le compte du Fonds du rail a 327,1 millions d'euros'. Group finances: turnover EUR 1.311 billion in 2025 against EUR 1.215 billion in 2024, up 7.9 per cent; net result a record EUR 35.3 million against EUR 25.6 million. Staff 5,345 (5,199 in 2024) and 466 hires (503). Passengers: 31.4 million, up 0.6 per cent; punctuality 89.6 per cent against 90.8 per cent in 2024, 90.4 per cent excluding strikes on neighbouring networks, and 91.4 per cent over the first five months of 2026. Freight activities turnover EUR 291.3 million, up 3.7 per cent; Groupe CFL multimodal's first positive net result for many years at EUR 3.0 million (a loss of EUR 1.8 million in 2024); Groupe CFL cargo a record net result of EUR 13.3 million, up EUR 6.1 million; Lorry-Rail EUR 8.7 million and Groupe Luxport EUR 1.4 million. Rolling stock: 10 new Coradia trains entered service in 2025 and the full refurbishment of 10 TER2N-ng units was completed, with the other 11 decided; 'En juin 2026, 22 trains Coradia sont en service (17 de la serie 2400 avec 334 places assises par train et 5 de la serie 2450 avec 692 places par train)'; 'En 2025, les CFL ont finalise le cahier des charges en vue de la commande de la prochaine serie de nouveaux trains (serie 2500)'. Network: CFL worked on the network for 270 days in 2025 against 264 in 2024, and 'les deux parties ayant signe, fin 2025, un nouveau contrat de gestion de l'infrastructure ferroviaire pour la periode 2026 - 2040', allocating means on performance criteria and covering the daily management of 1,000 trains a day. Projects: the new Luxembourg-Bettembourg line, 'mise en service prevue a l'automne 2027', and the Howald mobility hub advanced substantially in 2025, a second platform was placed at Howald and the works at the south head of Luxembourg station were completed (published 2026-06-15 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF, Rapport d'activite ferroviaire 2025 · 24-page activity report published by the ACF, downloaded as a 1.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Table 1 lists the certified rail actors using the national rail network: CFL Gestionnaire Infrastructure (Luxembourg) holds a safety authorisation valid to 16.04.2028; CFL Entreprise ferroviaire (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for passenger operations to 29.07.2029; CFL cargo S.A. (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for freight to 28.10.2026; LINEAS (Belgium) a single freight certificate to 18.03.2026; Hexafret (France) a single freight certificate to 27.10.2029. Chapter 4: the Sillons division handled 50,391 path orders in 2025, representing 319,887 train runs, with 1,353 no-shows of which 20 per cent passenger, 35 per cent freight and 45 per cent infrastructure manager; 56.6 per cent of path orders were cancellations; 1,004 medium- and short-term train notices and 8,223 very-short-term train notices were issued and 660 short-term works notices checked and validated. Of all train categories run, 58 per cent were passenger (V140 47 per cent, HPV140 11 per cent), 39 per cent freight and 3 per cent infrastructure-manager. Chapter 3: the two tram safety documents were renewed in 2022 for five years to 28.11.2027; no new tram was authorised in 2025; since 2017 the ACF has authorised 33 seven-section Urbos trams, one multifunction road-rail vehicle and one road-rail sweeper; on 28 February 2025 the ACF issued the entry-into-service authorisation for the structural subsystems of section E, Luxexpo to Findel Luxembourg Airport, under identification number LU 60 2025 5001, adding the stations 'Heienhaff P+R' and 'Findel-Luxembourg Airport' over 3.9 km and linking Kirchberg to the airport; 192 tram-driver licences have been issued since 2017. The ACF has held an ISO 9001 certificate since 2015, the current one valid 20.12.2024 to 10.12.2027 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Eurostat, rail_go_total — Luxembourg · Rail freight transport, read through the Eurostat dissemination API on 14 September 2026. Luxembourg: 7,135 thousand tonnes and 228 million tonne-km in 2023; 6,689 thousand and 216 million in 2024; 7,299 thousand and 214 million in 2025 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● TED Search API v3 · POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search, no authentication. Two sweeps run on 13 and 14 September 2026: a history sweep on buyer-country IN (LUX) with the rail CPV set and publication-date >= 20240101 (56 notices), widened to every Luxembourg notice published since 1 January 2024 (6,909 notices, pulled in six date slices) and filtered by buyer name and title because CFL and Luxtram advertise much of their rail work under general construction classes; and an open sweep on deadline-receipt-tender-date-lot >= 20260914 and deadline-receipt-request-date-lot >= 20260914. The whole eForms value set was requested — BT-27 at procedure and lot level, BT-271, BT-720-Tender, BT-118, BT-161, estimated-value-*, framework-maximum-value-*, result-value-*, total-value, tender-value high and low — together with winner-selection-status, non-award-justification, BT-759 and BT-760, procedure-identifier, internal-identifier-proc and the parallel arrays tender-identifier, tender-lot-identifier, winner-identifier, result-lot-identifier and BT-13714-Tender (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

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