Kombiverkehr expects significant growth in volume in 2011

„The current high demand combined with bottlenecks at terminals is the reason why not all transport requirements can be met at the moment. This situation will only ease in 2012, when the expansion at the four big terminals Hamburg, Cologne, Ludwigshafen and Munich will be finished“, says managing director Robert Breuhahn at the annual press conference.

With double-digit growth rates the enterprise has generated one of the best results in the financial year 2010 in its 40-years history. In total they shifted 933,039 truck loads (1.866 million TEU) from road to rail, 9.1 per cent more than in the previous year. As the average transport distance and transport weight increased, transport performance increased in line with that by 9.8 per cent to 17.2 billion ton kilometres; volumes forwarded increased by 10.2 per cent to 21.5 billion gross tons. The turnover generated by 137 employees was climbing 10.7 per cent to EUR 384 million. Last year Kombiverkehr’s rail transportataions avoided transport-caused greenhouse gas emissions at the amount of 1.155 million tons, 870,000 tons thereof carbon dioxide (CO2).

As all five traffic corridors of Kombiverkehr grew by 6 per cent at minimum, the enterprise was able to consolidate its position as the biggest intermodal transport operator in Europe in 2010. The German network posted a plus in volumes of exactly 7 per cent to 220,107 shipments. In western Europe the volume rose 23.4 per cent to 86,189 shipments. Traffic with northern European and Baltic countries increased 9 per cent in 2010 to 99,151 shipments.

The south-eastern Eruope route of Kombiverkehr, its core being traffic with Italy and which is accounting for more than 40 per cent of the total volume handled by the enterprise, grew 8.4 per cent to 421,940 shipments in 2010. The Gotthard and the Brenner route, the core relations in traffic with italy, developed wuite differently. Whereas traffic through Switzerland rose 12.5 per cent to 156,141 shipments, Austria-traffic rose 6.2 per cent to 250,956. Breuhahn: „We assume that the grants from the Swiss government will play a major role this year as well."

Transport from and to eastern and south-eastern Europe and Austrian traffic grew six per cent to 105,652 truck shipments. Relations to Turkey and the Czech Republic were the growth-drivers with 119 per cent and 27 per cent, respectively.

Quelle: LogEastics
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