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{{Infobox company
| name = RAIL4CHEM
| logo = Rail4captrain Logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| caption =
| type = [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|mit beschränkter Haftung (mbH.)]]
| genre =
| fate = Underperforming, absorbed
| predecessor =
| successor = Captrain deutschland
| foundation = 2000
| founder = [[BASF AG]], {{Interlanguage link multi|Hoyer Group|de|3=Hoyer-Gruppe}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|VTG AG|de}}, [[Bertschi AG]]
| defunct = 2010
| location_city = [[Essen]]
| location_country = Germany
| location =
| locations =
| area_served = Europe : Germany, Switzerland, Benelux, Poland
| key_people = Sven Flore (COO)<br>Thomas Kratzer (managing director)<br>Mark Bertram (managing director)
| industry = Rail freight
| products =
| services =
| market cap =
| revenue =
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| aum =
| assets =
| equity =
| owner =
| num_employees = ~180 (2008)<ref>{{citation| url = http://rinsider.club-feroviar.ro/en/afiseaza_stire.php?id=637| title = Veolia Cargo purchased Rail4chem| date = 7 March 2008| work = rinsider.club-feroviar.ro| publisher = Railway Insider : Club Feroviar| access-date = 28 August 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120325091657/http://rinsider.club-feroviar.ro/en/afiseaza_stire.php?id=637| archive-date = 25 March 2012| url-status = dead}}</ref>
| parent =
| divisions =
| subsid = rail4chem Benelux B.V.<br>rail4chem transalpin AG<br>fer Polska S.A.
| homepage = [http://rail4chem.com www.rail4chem.com]
| footnotes =
| intl =
}}

[[File:Rail4Chem-wagon.jpg|thumb|right|[[Goods wagon]] from Rail4Chem in [[Utrecht Centraal railway station]], May 2006]]
'''RAIL4CHEM''' was a German rail freight transport company, and the parent company of a number of European subsidiary rail freight transport companies including '''''rail4chem Benelux B.V.''''' ([[Rotterdam]]), the '''''rail4chem transalpin AG''''' ([[Basel]]) and '''''Fer Polska S.A.''''' ([[Warsaw]]).

The business was acquired by [[Veolia Cargo]] in 2008, which was acquired by SNCF in 2009. In 2010 the company was grouped under SNCF's new freight train brand [[Captrain]], and absorbed into the ''Captrain Deutschland'' subdivision, and became a provider to the division of long distance freight trains.

==History==

In 2000 the railway company RAIL4CHEM was founded as a joint venture among three German companies: [[BASF AG]] ([[Ludwigshafen]]), {{Interlanguage link multi|Hoyer Group|de|3=Hoyer-Gruppe}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|VTG AG|de}} (both located in [[Hamburg]]) and one Swiss firm [[Bertschi AG]]; headquartered in [[Dürrenäsch]].<ref name="eb">{{citation| url = http://www.european-bulls.com/company5.php| title = European Bulls Railfreight Alliance : RAIL4CHEM| work = european-bulls.com| access-date = 28 August 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110710205632/http://www.european-bulls.com/company5.php| archive-date = 10 July 2011| url-status = dead}}</ref> Hoyer merged its rail freight subsidiary (''Hoyer Railserv'', formed 2000 from ''RSE Cargo''.{{#tag:ref|
''Hoyer Railserv GmbH.'' was a rail freight subsidiary of Hoyer; formed in October 2000 by the acquisition (95%) and renaming of ''RSE Cargo GmbH.'' by Hoyer - Hoyer entered the rail freight market to obtain a more economical transportation cost than that offered by [[Deutsche Bahn]]. Hoyer Railserv primarily operated tank trains.<ref>{{citation
|title = Corporate reorganisation in the European transport and logistic sector in the 1990s
|isbn= 3-8258-6774-9
| author = Christoph Dörrenbächer
| publisher = LIT Verlag Münster
|year =2003
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7DLSs6gPApkC
| chapter = Corporate Reorganisation at Hoyer in 1990s, p.73
| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=7DLSs6gPApkC&pg=PA73}}</ref> Its initial freight flows were for transportation of chemicals between Hamburg, [[Dormagen]], and [[Brunsbüttel]].<ref>
{{citation
| url = http://www.x-rail.org/render.asp?o=2570&pf=true
| title = David against Goliath?
| author = Helena Kyster-Hansen
| publisher = X-Rail
| work = x-rail.org
| access-date = 22 January 2012
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20070629144631/http://www.x-rail.org/render.asp?o=2570&pf=true
| archive-date = 29 June 2007
| url-status = dead
}}
</ref> It later (2001) operated container trains between [[Bremerhaven]] and the chemical complex at [[Schkopau]].<ref>
{{citation
| url =http://www.mylogistics.net/de/news/themen/key/news20178/jsp
| title =Hoyer Railserv startet neue Container-Ganzzug -Verbindung
| date =10 October 2001
| publisher =Bremische Hafenvertretung e.V.
| work =mylogistics.net
| language =de
| access-date =22 January 2012
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20030425122036/http://mylogistics.net/de/news/themen/key/news20178/jsp
| archive-date =25 April 2003
| url-status =dead
}}
</ref>
|group="note"}}) into the company in 2002.<ref>{{citation
|url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/rail4chem-grows.html
| title = rail4chem grows
| date =1 September 2002
|publisher = [[Railway Gazette International]]
| work = railwaygazette.com}}</ref>

Initially the company was set up as a rail freight service for chemical companies. The organisation serves both national and international freight movements within Europe. Later the company took on non-chemical industry freight work.{{citation needed|date=August 2011}}

Amongst the first workings were the movement of chemicals from the works at BASF [[Ludwigshafen]] to [[Aachen]] to be moved further by the Belgian state railway [[SNCB]] / [[NMBS]].

In 2004 the company gained a safety certificate to operate in the Netherlands,<ref>{{citation| url= http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-303173/Rail4Chem-the-German-private-railfreight.html| title =Rail4Chem, the German private railfreight operator, has been granted a safety certificate which gives it unrestricted access throughout the national rail network| publisher = [[International Railway Journal]]| date = 1 April 2004| work = goliath.ecnext.com}}</ref> and in Switzerland.<ref>{{citation|url= http://www.x-rail.org/render.asp?o=3780&pf=true|title= Rail4chem set to cross the Alps|date= 18 April 2004|work= x-rail.net|access-date= 28 August 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120322052131/http://www.x-rail.org/render.asp?o=3780&pf=true|archive-date= 22 March 2012|url-status= dead}}</ref> In 2005 the founder companies increased the capital of the company by €4 million to €5 million to enable the purchase of multi-system electric locomotives.<ref>{{citation| url = http://www.worldcargonews.com/htm/n20050524.285251.htm|title = Rail4chem in the money| date = April 2005| work = worldcargonews.com}}</ref> Safety certificate for operations in Belgium was acquired (by the subsidiary Rail4chem Benelux BV) in January 2006,<ref>{{citation|url =http://ecms.infrabel.be/DMS/ds/en/615277| title = Annual Report 2006|publisher = [[Infrabel]]| work = ecms.infrabel.be|pages = 8, 17, 64}}</ref> and for operations in France in February 2006,<ref>{{citation|url = http://www.infrasite.net/news/news_article.php?ID_nieuwsberichten=3678&language=en| title = Rail4chem now also operating in France| work = infrasite.net| date = 13 February 2006}}</ref>

On 20 February 2008 it was announced that the business was to be sold to the French company [[Veolia Cargo]] for an undisclosed sum.<ref>[http://www.vinamaso.net/news-events/shipping-logistics/veolia-on-track-to-take-over-rail4chem.html Veolia on track to take over Rail4chem] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724122229/http://www.vinamaso.net/news-events/shipping-logistics/veolia-on-track-to-take-over-rail4chem.html |date=24 July 2011 }} ''vinamaso.net''</ref><ref>[http://www.transportweekly.com/pages/en/news/articles/49761/ Veolia to acquire Rail4Chem] ''transportweekly.com''</ref> Veolia Cargo was acquired by [[SNCF]] (and Eurotunnel),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/10/veolia-cargo-sale-finalised/browse/6.html|title=Veolia Cargo sale finalised|date=2009-12-01|work=Railway Gazette}}</ref> with Rail4chem becoming part of SNCF; it was reorganised into the [[Captrain]] railfreight operation division of SNCF.<ref>{{citation|url = http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/captrain-brand-to-consolidate-international-freight-operations.html| title = Captrain brand to consolidate international freight operations| date = 12 February 2010| publisher= [[Railway Gazette International]]| work = railwaygazette.com}}</ref> The business underperformed during the difficult market conditions of the [[Great Recession]] and was absorbed into the Captrain deutschland division in 2010.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.worldcargonews.com/htm/n20100616.216504.htm| title = Rail4chem withdrawn from the market| date = May 2010| publisher = World Cargo News| work = worldcargonews.com}}</ref>

''RAIL4CHEM'' was a founder member of the [[European Bulls Rail Freight Alliance]], a European consortium of European rail freight operating companies.<ref>{{citation| url = http://www.european-bulls.com/1926_long.php| title = Alliance founded by European rail freight carriers| date = 13 January 2005| work = european-bulls.com| access-date = 28 August 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120317063549/http://www.european-bulls.com/1926_long.php| archive-date = 17 March 2012| url-status = dead}}</ref>

===Subsidiaries===

In late 2004, ''RAIL4CHEM'' established a new subsidiary company: ''Rail4Chem Benelux NV'', after the acquiring and taking over the activities of Dutch private rail carrier {{Interlanguage link multi|ShortLines BV|nl|3=Shortlines}}.{{#tag:ref|ShortLines was the first private rail operator in the Netherlands, established in 1998. Liquidated in 2004 after acquisition by Rail4chem.
<ref>Sources:
*{{citation| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20041126002030/http://www.shortlines.nl/| url = http://www.shortlines.nl/| title = SHORTLINES website-index|archive-date = 26 November 2004| work = shortlines.nl| language =nl, en}}
</ref><ref name="short"/>|group="note"}}<ref name = "short">Sources:
*{{citation| url = http://www.worldcargonews.com/htm/n20041126.528615.htm| title = Rail4chem sets up Dutch subsidiary| date = November 2004| work = worldcargonews.com}}
*{{citation| url = http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-World-Railways/Rail4Chem-Benelux-BV-Netherlands.html| title = Rail4Chem Benelux BV (Netherlands) - Jane's World Railways| work = articles.janes.com| access-date = 14 March 2012}}
*{{citation| url = http://www.logistiek.nl/nieuws/id1633-Shortlines_overgenomen_door_Railchem.html| title = Shortlines overgenomen door Rail4chem| language = nl| date = 15 October 2004| work =logistiek.nl}}</ref>

''Rail4Chem Benelux's'' main business was the transportation of containers from the [[Port of Rotterdam]] to Germany but also operated international tank trains to DSM in [[Geleen]] as well as intermodal trains via [[Amsterdam]] and cereal trains via [[Europoort]].<ref>[http://www.railfaneurope.net/ns/r4c.html rail4chem Benelux B.V] ''railfaneurope.net''</ref>

==Operations==
{{Expand section|date=March 2009}}

''RAIL4CHEM'' was certified to operate in Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and France.<ref>[http://www.rail4chem.com/index.php?id=20&L=1 Permits] ''rail4chem.com'' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090407014150/http://www.rail4chem.com/index.php?id=20&L=1 |date=7 April 2009 }}</ref>

The trains known as 'mobile pipelines' are operated between the BASF operations in [[Antwerp]] and [[Ludwigshafen]].

Up till the opening of the [[Betuweroute]] only diesel locomotives were used in the Netherlands.

==Rolling stock==

In 2005 the electric locomotive fleet of ''RAIL4CHEM'' consisted of 14 locomotives of [[TRAXX]] type, and predecessors; the [[Adtranz]] built [[DBAG Class 145]] (for work in Germany), and the [[Bombardier Transportation]] built [[DBAG Class 185]] (for work in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).<ref name="lok2005">{{citation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050314153648/http://www.rail4chem.com/index.php?id=11&L=1 | archive-date = 14 March 2005| url = http://www.rail4chem.com/index.php?id=11&L=1| work = rail4chem.com| publisher = Rail4Chem|title = RAIL4CHEM: Locomotives}}</ref> Other locomotives such as the Siemens [[EuroSprinter]] ES 64 U2 have been used based on requirements, as well as older locomotives have also been used in Switzerland.<ref >{{cite news
| url=http://www.bahnonline.ch/wp/292/ae-47-fur-rail4chem-haben-winterthur-nach-fertigem-umbau-verlassen.htm| title=Ae 4/7 für RAIL4CHEM haben Winterthur nach fertigem Umbau verlassen - Nach 1. Einsatz wieder abgestellt| website=bahnONLINE.ch
| date=18 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016130021/http://www.bahnonline.ch/bo/archiv/2008/06/18/ae-47-fur-rail4chem-haben-winterthur-nach-fertigem-umbau-verlassen/ |archive-date=16 Oct 2018}}</ref> The company leased Re 4/4I (Re 416 626), which had previously belonged to MThB and SBB to operate fuel trains on Swiss rails, as can be seen here: [http://www.juergs.ch/jpg/vorbild/r4c/nd0309g.jpg]

For non-electrified lines in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium, locomotives of the diesel types [[EMD JT42CWR]] (Class 66),<ref name="lok2005"/> as well as [[Vossloh]] locomotives, primarily [[Vossloh G 2000 BB]] and [[MaK G 1206]] types were used.<ref name="lok2005"/><ref>{{citation|url = http://www.loks-aus-kiel.de/index.php?nav=1406157&action=results&view=fahrzeuge&object=rail4chem| title = Suche "rail4chem" | work=loks-aus-kiel.de|language=de}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of German railway companies]]

==References and notes==
{{reflist|40em}}

===Notes===
{{reflist|group="note"}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Rail4chem}}
*{{cite web|url = http://www.rail4chem.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422071301/http://www.rail4chem.com/|archive-date = 22 April 2009| work=rail4chem.com|title= RAIL4CHEM: Startseite| language=de}}, archive of homepage

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