Specializing in the rental of equipment for intermodal transport, the French group Modalis has acquired CCFC, an Italian company which manufactures, in particular, swap bodies, P400 trailers and container chassis.

Modalis will carry out “a massive investment programme worth several million euros” in the CCFC plant, located in Lallio near Bergamo (Lombardy).

This will allow the French group specializing in the rental and trading of containers, swap bodies and intermodal wagons, to double the production of the Italian company that it announced on October 30th that it had acquired. In 2025, 1 swap bodies and 000 semi-trailers could be manufactured each year in northern Italy.

2 actors intervening on different links

The integration of CCFC within Modalis, underlines the French group, brings together “two players operating on different links in the combined transport value chain”. Modalis, which employs 130 people and forecasts a turnover of €2023 million for 60.

With the future terminal of Tonkin, at the port of Marseille-Fos, the Aix-based group, created by Bernard Meï in 2002, will also be a rail terminal operator from next year.

CCFC, a company employing around sixty people and with a turnover of €20 million, manufactures semi-trailers, including those that can be gripped by a clamp (P400), swap bodies, container-carrying road chassis and special ISO containers.

Development of innovative projects

The company, created 40 years ago, has a factory on an 8 ha site, 3 ha of which are covered, which “authorises new capacity investments” according to Modalis.

Modalis, the new 100% owner of CCFC, has appointed Enrico Rossi, previously sales director of Cobra Containers, as head of the company. The development of innovative projects is envisaged: “Butterfly” swap body with automatic hood for the transport of bulk, side-opening swap body, modular coil-carrying swap body, etc.

Etienne Berrier