Cargo Center Graz about to enter its second decade
Cargo Center Graz wants to implement more block trains and logistics projects; investments so far totalled EUR 130 million at the site
Cargo Center Graz (CCG) is celebrating its 10-years-jubilee on 26 June. More than one decade ago, one of Austria’s first infrastructure PPP-projects (private public partnership) was launched at the site in Werndorf. Having invested close to EUR 110 million until 2013, they built a terminal for accompanied and unaccompanied multimodal road/rail transport and logistics premises. The objective of the facility opened in 2003 was to join goods flows to be forwarded towards North and Southeast Europe, as well as boosting Graz as a business area including the neighbouring regions in Carinthia, Burgenland, Western Hungary and Slovenia.
Cargo Center Graz present themselves as a modern cargo distribution centre with terminal operations for multimodal road/rail traffic. The facility for combined load transport, which is equipped with four craneable tracks, each 700 metres long, and two gantry cranes, has lately felt the consequences of the economic development. Moreover Rail Cargo Austria has shifted supra-regional BEX transports from rail back to road last year. “As a result we lost 50 to 60 wagons daily in one swoop“, Franz Glanz, Managing Director, explains the consequences in the interview with the Austrian transport magazine Österreichische Verkehrszeitung. According to him annual volume handled at the terminal in 2012 was about 100,000 TEU. The container depot provides space for up to 3,600 TEU. Every day the CCG handles 30 trucks and many goods transported on the rail, with a total weight of 3,500 tonnes. Rail operations at the CCG are managed by the Styrian railway company Steiermärkische Landesbahnen.
In order to compensate for the volume loss on the railway resulting from the shift of the BEX transportations the staff-team of 14 at the Cargo Center Graz pushes an initiative for neutral block train concepts. Two products bear the signature of the company: the regular service operated together with W.Combi Cargo and Wenzel Logistics, offering three to four weekly rotations on the Werndorf-Neuss route, and the Koper shuttle, a joint enterprise of CCG and the private railway company Adria Transport, held by the associates Luka Koper and LTE Logistik- und Transport GmbH, offering five to six weekly rotations. Franz Glanz intends to develop this business segment in the coming years, meaning to add new block train concepts.
Issue N° 24/2013 of the ÖVZ features a detailed report on the Cargo Center Graz.
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