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The Voies Ferrées Locales et Industrielles (VFLI) is a French freight rail company, a subsidiary of SNCF in the SNCF Geodis logistics group. The company was formed in 1998 as a low cost short line and industrial railway operator. The subsidiary ''Fertis'' operated construction trains on the LGV Est up to 2007. From 2007 on, SNCF developed VFLI into a full fledged freight railway.〔 ==History== VFLI was created in 1998 as a subsidiary of the holding company SNCF Participations to operate as a low cost operation,〔 initially the company took over the operations of two industrial railway systems: ''Voies Ferrées des Landes'' (VFL) and ''Mines Dominiales de Potasse d'Alsace''.〔〔 In 2000 the company began a joint venture with Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux (CFD) called ''Voies Ferrées du Morvan'' to operate the 87 km Avallon-Autun railway line,〔 and in 2001 took over operations on the ''Houllières du Bassin de Lorraine'' (HBL) via a subsidiary 'VFLI Cargo''.〔 Up to 2007 the company was involved in the construction of LGV Est through the subsidiary ''Fertis''.〔 In 2007, VFLI got the certification to run trains on the full extent of the French national railway network owned by Réseau Ferré de France.〔 By 2008 the company was providing services for around forty industrial sites, with clients having included Rhodia, Arkema, Arcelor, Renault and Coke de Carling,〔 Ciments français, Lafarge, Elf, Port Edouard Herriot (Lyon), ALZ, Smurfit SCF in Facture and PSA (in Trnava, Slovakia),〔 other contracts included transport of combustion waste from ''Protires'' waste processing plant in Strasbourg, work sub-contracted from SNCF and transportation from ports.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「VFLI」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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