2000 as dillen & lejeune cargo founder ronny dillen et jeroen le jeune headquarters deurne belgium area served port of antwerp belgium key people jeroen lejeune owner jeroen lejeune hupac msc lkw walter bertschi ag gts number of employees 31 2005 1 160 2009 whole crossrail group parent crossrail ag hupac website 1 crossrail benelux is a belgian rail freight company a subsidiary of crossrail ag ; operating in belgium . crossrail s class 66 near bruges belgium contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references and notes 3.1 notes 3.2 references 4 external links history edit the company was formed in 2000 as dillen & lejeune cargo dlc and was the first private company to haul a freight train in belgium . on that moment both founders owned 50 % of the shares . in october 2001 hupac entered the capital of dlc before the first train was effectively hauled in april 2002 the first container train was hauled for msc from port of antwerp to aachen west station by a class 66 locomotive leased from porterbrook and further to schwandorf station with another hupac hired electric locomotive breaking the monopoly of state owned sncb although belgian freight rail transport was officially opened to private operators only in march 2003 dlc operates based on european directives from 1991 and a security license for the belgian rail network . a security license to access the dutch network was obtained at the beginning of 2003 with the first train hauled to waalhaven on january 11 . trains to and from the zeelandic flanders a part of netherlands which is not directly connected to the remainder of the dutch rail network became recurring traffic with the terneuzen based bretschi container terminal as client . in october 2007 dlc merged with swiss babcock & brown owned crossrail ag . 2 hupac had left the capital of dlc so the shareholding structure was dispatched between both dlc founders having 25.5 % each and babcock & brown for the remainder . the merged company operates as crossrail ag with subsidiaries in belgium and italy . in september 2008 the company acquired a security license to train its own drivers . problems between both founders resulted in august 2008 in jeroen lejeune leaving the company for a few months . 3 as babcock & brown was facing strong difficulties after the global credit crunch jeroen le jeune came back and bought their 49 % shares in august 2009 together with the shares from ronny dillen . 4 in september 2009 crossrail successfully sued belgian rail network manager infrabel for having given full priority to passenger traffic instead of treating all rail operators equally during a strike . 5 as traffic grew le jeune quickly faced liquidity problems and searched partners to refund the company 6 the first candidate was no newcomer . hupac took a 25 % participation on august 24 2010 . 7 as of february 2012 two customers of the company austria based lkw walter and g n ral transport service gts from italy acquired respectively 25 % and 10 % of the shares with lejeune group reducing to 40 % . 8 two other customers bertschi ag and msc each took 10 % of shares from lejeune in july 2012 . 9 see also edit euro cargo rail db schenker subsidiary operating in france sncb belgian state owned railways references and notes edit notes edit references edit national bank of belgium company figures . nbb.be . crossrail and dlc set to merge . railway gazette . 2007 10 04 . le jeune leaves dillen . meuse rhine journal . 2008 08 14 . crossrail goes back home . ship2store.it . 2009 09 07 . infrabel heeft goederenvervoerder crossrail gediscrimineerd . lexpress.be in dutch . 2009 09 01 . spoorbedrijf crossrail mikt op snelle doorstart . lexpress.be in dutch . 2009 10 28 . hupac takes crossrail stake . railway gazette . 2010 08 26 . neue starke partner f r crossrail . bahnonline.ch in german . 2012 02 23 . chemical logistics specialist bertschi global logistics and msc belgium nv have each taken a 10 % stake in swiss rail freight company crossrail ag . . lloydsloadinglist.com . 2012 07 04 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crossrail benelux & oldid 716584435 categories railway companies of belgiumrailway companies established in 2000hidden categories cs1 dutch language sources nl cs1 german language sources de navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 22 april 2016 at 15 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution 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