DB Schenker Rail accelerates container transport to Poland

New production concept of DB Schenker Rail offers continuous shuttle trains from Hamburg and Bremerhaven to Poland:

With its new production concept DB Schenker Rail accelerates container transport from the German seaports Hamburg and Bremerhaven to Poland. Together with its customer Polzug, the market leader for intermodal transport between western Europe and Poland, the enterprise developed a service concepts for continuous shuttle trains and presented it on 11 December. “We expect shorter transport times an more reliability from the new system with continuous shuttle trains“, explains Dr. Alexander Hedderich, CEO DB Schenker Rail.

The new hub terminal in Gadki near Plzen, constructed for Polzug as the operator, plays also an important role. Trains from Germany are arriving there and are no longer taken apart. Instead, containers are reloaded at the new hub terminal to available block trains of PKP Cargo, and are then transported to Polzug’s terminals in the Polish economic centres. DB Schenker Rail operates the services to Gadki border-crossing from one source. They deploy five multiple system locomotives, which can be used in German as well as on Polish tracks.

DB Schenker Rail has been operating container trains from Hamburg and Bremerhaven to the shunting station in Posen-Franowo, Poland, since 1991. Previously they were taken over at the border in Frankfurt (Oder) from the Polish national railway PKP Cargo. In Posen-Franowo the block trains were taken apart. Afterwards the wagons were reassembled to new trains, to supply the economic centres Warschau, Lodz, Wroclaw and Kattowitz.

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