DB Schenker establishes new logistics centre in Northern Italy
DB Schenker Italiana’s logistics centre in Dinazzano shines with a covered track for weather-sensitive freight:
DB Schenker has opened a new logistics centre in the Northern Italian town of Dinazzano, which links road and rail. The new facility, located next to the facilities of the Schenker Italiana S.p.A. branch of Dinazzano specialized in rail logistics and forwarding, is thus able to offer complete multimodal solutions. The single-track hall of the new terminal is 250 meters long, 26 meters wide and has an indoor height of ten meters. Inside the hall, valuable sensitive freight can be transhipped between rail cars and trucks in any weather. The terminal makes comprehensive additional logistics services possible. The site includes an approximately 30,000 m² asphalted outdoor area. The siding is 600 meters long.
The facility offers efficient transhipment equipment, including bale clamp forklifts with rotating clamps, cranes that can carry up to 35 tons and a truck scale for checking vehicle units up to 18 meters long. The quartz cement floor inside the terminal can support up to 100 tons. “Our new multimodal logistics centre serves as an interface between the different modes of transport and allows for a high quality of service in a wide range of logistics services,” said Karl Nutzinger, Member of the Management Board of Schenker AG responsible for Land Transport.
The centre is located near Bologna and Modena in one of Italy’s most important economic regions. In addition to the automotive industry, the region is also home to over 200 companies that manufacture tiles and terracotta products for export. From the location in Dinazzano DB Schenker supplies the Italian tile industry with around one million tons of clay from Germany’s Westerwald region by rail. From Dinazzano the forwarding company in cooperation with DB Schenker Rail ships tiles and ceramics to Northern Europe.
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