Deutsche Bahn invests €19m in Duisburg Coal Island expansion
Deutsche Bahn is to invest around €19 million by 2014 in the expansion and modernisation of transhipment and storage capacity on Duisburg’s Coal Island. Coal Island in the Port of Duisburg, which is an ideal strategic location for the transhipment of imported bulk materials, currently has an annual capacity of 2.5 million metric tons. This is scheduled to be expanded to 4.5 million tons by the end of 2014. Until then, the capacity available for the import of goods by barge from the Port of Rotterdam, for the transhipment and storage of coal on the site, which covers an area of 198,000 m2, and for supplying the coal-fired power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia is to be almost doubled. According to Dr. Karl-Friedrich Rausch, member of the Management Board DB Mobility Logistics responsible for transportation & logistics, with the end of German hard coal already in sight, the demand for imported coal is expected to increase by around eleven million tons per year until 2018. DB Schenker Rail’s subsidiary, RBH Logistics, is the biggest tenant on Coal Island, where it operates a high-capacity transhipment terminal. All the technical facilities on Coal Island are linked to enable any combination of loading and unloading, storage and mixing coal to meet customers‘ requirements. RBH develops logistics chains that run from the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp via the Duisburg region to the consumer and offers them to the customer as a complete service package. Quelle: eyefortransport Portal: www.logistik-express.com |