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  • Benaming voor een medewerker van een transportbedrijf die als taak heeft voertuigen te verplaatsen op de bedrijfsterreinen van zijn werkgever.

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  1. The local train is less comfortable than the express train.
  2. Have you rode on an express train lately?
  3. This is an express train. It won't make many stops.
  4. To take an express train, we have to get an express ticket in addition to an ordinary ticket.
  5. I'd like to make a reservation for the express train that leaves at 6:00 p.m.
  6. Because the Japanese morning train is very crowded, I would be out of breath if I caught the express train at 8 in the morning.
  7. Sernam may develop only its activities to carry mail by railway in accordance with the Train Bloc Express (TBE) concept.
  8. The Train Bloc Express or ‘TBE’ concept: Train Bloc Express or TBE [37] is a shuttle train running at high speed according to a fixed time schedule and with a fixed number of wagons dedicated to the transport of traditional mail and especially express mail, which forms part of a service project that simultaneously offers Quality, Reliability, Security, Speed (160 km/h on conventional lines, 200 km/h on HST lines) and allows late collection (hence better groupage).
  9. Since then, Sernam has developed a new railway transport concept known as ‘Train Bloc Express’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘TBE’) which is used as the key element in transporting traditional and express mail flows over distances exceeding 400 km including the transport of SNCF customer baggage and the transport of newspapers between the Paris region and southern France.
  10. For all of its activities, Sernam has made use essentially of transport by road (lorries). The carriage of parcels by conventional railways was abandoned with the introduction of the new transport plan mentioned in the restructuring plan. Since then, Sernam has developed a new railway transport concept known as ‘Train Bloc Express’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘TBE’) which is used as the key element in transporting traditional and express mail flows over distances exceeding 400 km including the transport of SNCF customer baggage and the transport of newspapers between the Paris region and southern France.
  11. Moreover, France has complied with the Sernam 1 decision with regard to the number of closures of Sernam’s sorting centres and their reorganisation, employee training, development in terms of staff reduction, phasing in a new transport plan, switching computer systems to those of Geodis, reducing turnover by 18% between 2000 and 2005, non-replacement by the State of the €67 million which Geodis will not provide to Sernam, changeover from Sernam’s traditional mail activities to express mail services, and in particular the changeover to an innovative service in railway transport focusing on the new combination of “range of express services” and “Train Bloc Express (TBE)” which occupies a new market segment whose full potential remains to be developed.