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rail transport industry

Société nationale des chemins de fer français

Headquarters: Paris
Founded: 1938
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Société nationale des chemins de fer français is

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The Société nationale des chemins de fer français ([sɔsjete nɑsjɔnal de ʃ(ə)mɛ̃ d(ə) fɛʁ fʁɑ̃sɛ], lit. 'National Company of the French Railways', SNCF [ɛsɛnseɛf] ) is France's state-owned railway operator. Becoming effective on 1 January 1938 following an agreement on 31 August 1937 between the government, private railway companies and railway labor unions, it operates nearly all rail transport in France and Monaco, including the TGV, on France's high-speed rail network. Its functions include operation of railway services for passengers and freight (through its subsidiaries SNCF Voyageurs and Rail Logistics Europe), as well as railway infrastructure management (SNCF Réseau). The railway network consists of about 35,000 km (22,000 mi) of route, of which 2,600 km (1,600 mi) are high-speed lines and 14,500 km (9,000 mi) electrified. More than 14,000 trains are operated daily.

In 2010, the SNCF was ranked 22nd in France and 214th globally on the Fortune Global 500 list. It is the main business of the SNCF Group, which in 2020 had €30 billion of sales in 120 countries. The SNCF Group employs more than 275,000 employees in France and around the world. Since July 2013, the SNCF Group headquarters are located in a Parisian suburb at 2 Place aux Étoiles in Saint-Denis. The president of SNCF Group has been Jean Castex since 2025.

Origin

Who founded it

Société nationale des chemins de fer français was founded in 1938 in Paris by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

French State

French public collective and all public authorities

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Société nationale des chemins de fer français
Industry: rail transport industry
Legal form: public limited company with board of directors
Country of registration: France
Headquarters: Paris
Formed in: Paris
Founded: 1938
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: —
Ticker: —
ISIN
Legal Entity Identifier: 969500A4MXJ3ESPHK698
Head office coordinates: 48.8567, 2.3522

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 57.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1969
Newest vessel on record: 1969
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2025

All figures in EUR

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

43.0bn EUR

Reported for 2025

Net profit

1.8bn EUR

Reported for 2025

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record · Container ship

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Transcontainer I	6904478	Container ship	Panama	1969	—	—	104.0 m	—

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Société nationale des chemins de fer français compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Société nationale des chemins de fer français is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

France is the country of registration for 53 commercial operators in this directory, among which Société nationale des chemins de fer français ranks 17th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 128 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in France.

Founded in 1938, Société nationale des chemins de fer français is 88 years old. This directory holds 32 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.