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HARD FREIGHT * Switzerland - The long way home
Construction work forces a meandering tour of France for a new cruise boat being transported to Lake Geneva in sections from a shipyard near Nantes
Genève,Switzerland -Tribune de Genève -1 April 2008: -- A new vessel ordered from France by Lake Geneva’s major passenger boat company is on its way – but the route is a circuitous one. The Compagnie Générale de Navigation (CGN) commissioned a shipyard in Nantes to build the Valais, a 30-meter long boat capable of carrying 200 passengers. But construction work on the new TGV rail line from Geneva to Macon has closed off a route used in the past to transport similar boats. Because French regulations ban trucks with over-sized loads from using the autoroute, the shippers of the vessel – moved in three pieces – have had to take a 400-kilometer detour via Basel to get it to Geneva... (Photo: DR - The convoy transporting the Valais on its way from Brittany to Geneva. It left last Thursday and is due in this region on April 11)Labels: freight transport systems
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