Kombiverkehr KG registers continuous positive demand

European market leader moved almost one million truck shipments in 2011 as intermodal traffic operator

Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co (Frankfurt) expects an increase in mail volume in 2012. "Demand continues to be positive", the managing directors Robert Breuhahn and Armin Riedl said when announcing the traffic 2011 figures.

The confidence of the two managers is based on the one hand on the terminal expansions in Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and Ludwigshafen, and the other hand on the capacity expansions and new transport services between Germany and Austria, Romania and the Netherlands implemented last year. In January 2012 they were followed by a new train between the Czech city of Ostrava and Verona in Italy. Since the end of 2011 the transport services to and from Poland are embedded in a new shuttle concept, which effects significant quality improvements and further increases in demand according to Kombiverkehr.

Since some weeks ago Kombiverkehr and all stakeholders, especially the partner railway enterprises, prepare intensively for the announced blockade of the Brenner corridor in summer 2012 and additional restrictions during construction activities, through single-track traffic flow and locks on weekends. “Our aim is to keep the impact on customers as low as possible during the entire phase of construction work or full closure", said Robert Breuhahn.

In 2011 Kombiverkehr transported 972,600 truck shipments, and thus exceeded the previous year’s figure by 4.2 per cent. The majority of this growth came from international transports. About two thirds of all truck shipments – one shipment is equal to one semi-trailer, a 40-foot container or two swap bodies – were carried out on international routes. In the overall system, the company operates more than 170 daily trains.

Quelle: LogEastics
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