Kombiverkehr expands service portfolio from/to North Europe
| Expanded Norway services for customers of Kombiverkehr As of now the Kombiverkehr Group offers numerous additional services in combined transport from and to North Europe. In addition to several new train departures, more continuous connections to Norway will be available and handling processes will be simplified. Consignments from and to the Norvegian terminals Åndalsnes, Bodø, Fauske, Kristiansand, Mo i Rana, Narvik, Stavanger and Trondheim are now handled as single bookings with a sole transport price. So far customers had to order and pay a partner company for transporting their goods from Oslo. As of June 8, frequencies will be increased on important routes for traffics from and to Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Baltic States. Three departures per week and direction are now on the schedule on the routes between Karlsruhe and Hamburg as well as between Hamburg and Lübeck and Rostock. Moreover three instead of two weekly departures will be available from June 15 between Hamburg and the Danish terminals Taulov and Høje Taastrup. “This increases the capacity of our direct train network and cuts real transit times on many gateway connections", explained Managing Director Robert Breuhahn. Established in 1969, Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co KG develops, organises and markets an international network for combined transportations on the railway and on the road. With 170 direct and shuttle trains the enterprise based in Frankfurt/Main offers more than 15,000 connections every night throughout Europe to forwarding and transport companies. In 2008 the whole group shifted 1.021 million truck consignments (2.043 million TEU) from the road to the railway. Quelle: Österreichische Verkehrszeitung |