HHLA and Polzug open intermodal hub in Poznán

Hub terminal in Posen boosts and accelerates connection between Polish industrial centres and north German seaports:

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and the rail operator Polzug Intermodal have opened a hub terminal near the Polish city of Poznán. The site allows daily shuttle trains to be run between the North European sea ports and Poznán for the first time. This reduces transport times between Hamburg and Poznán from previously 18 to 12 hours.

In Poznán Polzug Intermodal will be pooling rail freight transport from the north European sea ports – especially Hamburg and Bremerhaven – in Poznán for distribution throughout Poland on the spokes of its hub network. In addition to its central position for west-east traffic, the new site has the advantage of high local freight volume. The hub in Poznán currently has four tracks of 610 metres in length each, capable of serving an entire block train. The annual capacity amounts to about 180,000 TEU.

HHLA Intermodal Polska, a subsidiary of the HHLA group, invested around EUR 15 million in the new hub. The rail operator Polzug, which operates the terminal, contributed EUR 1 million. Polzug already has a dense terminal network in Poland, with sites in Katowice (Dabrowa Gornicza), Wroclaw and Warsaw (Pruszkow).

The hub in Poznán is a further step in the expansion of the HHLA transport network and will drive the industrialisation of hinterland traffic of sea ports. During the initial stage three to five trains will shuttle between Hamburg and Poznán every day. They can be loaded with “mixed cargo”, i.e. goods not sorted for a specific destination in Poland. At the Poznán hub terminal the containers are then sorted, and depending on their destination either reloaded onto inner-Polish trains for onward carriage to the appropriate terminals or delivered locally by truck.

Quelle: LogEastics
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