New container operator in Austria
A new neutral container operator is to start up business in Austria. By January 2009, the easyrail.at Spedition und Transport GmbH (forwarding and transportation-company) will market a regular blocktrain service between Hamburg/Bremerhaven and the Austrian stations Ennshafen CCT and Wien-Freudenau (Vienna) operating under the name „Rail Gate Austria“. Later on Antwerp, Rotterdam and Wolfurt CCT are planned to be integrated into the service range. The easyrail.at company acts as a specialist for combined transport activities and attends particularly to forwarders, shipping agencies, agents and hauliers. Together with about 20 employees Manfred Dvoracek and Günter Watzl, both Associates and Managing Directors, intend to forward approximately 55,000 TEU during the first year. The targeted turnover for 2009 is said to be EUR 30 million. Quelle: Österreichische Verkehrszeitung |
