NiKRASA brings not craneable semitrailers on to rail
New lever for combined transport has started regular operation: benefits for shippers, forwarders and the environment
NiKRASA-system benefits shippers, forwarders and the environment In close coordination with the market, the bayernhafen Group, TX Logistik, the Prien logistics competence centre and Uhly Maschinentechnik have developed a system for loading not craneable semitrailers on standard flat cars. It is called NiKRASA, and was officially introduced last week in the bayernhafen port of Nuremberg and is open for every forwarder.
The NiKRASA system consists of two parts: a passable terminal platform and a transport platform. The terminal tractor drives onto the terminal platform and positions the trailer in the middle of the transport platform. Then it’s the turn for the standard grappler of a gantry crane or reach stacker. It packs the trailer on the gripping edges of the NiKRASA transport platform and lifts it. Trailer and transport platform thus form a unit that can be handled as a whole. The NiKRASA-transport platform makes the hitherto non-cranable a cranable trailer. The trailer is positioned in the recess wagon exactly to the trestle. There, the kingpin is locked. Then the throughput of the trailer is completed.Throughput the other way round works just as simple, from recess wagon on the truck.
NiKRASA harmonizes with the standard recess wagon versions Twin and T3.000. The transport platform moves with the car, the terminal platform remains at the terminal. If it is not needed, it can be easily parked on the parking lot of a 40-foot container.
The new system has been successfully operated on a regular basis – since July 2014 between Padborg and Verona, since the end of September on the connection between Bettembourg and Trieste, and on the Rotterdam-Oslo route. NiKRASA offers combined transport terminals an economic approach to win shippers and freight forwarders for throughput of so far not craneable semitrailers. Thus, the system makes a lasting contribution to shift more freight from road to rail.
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Quelle: LogEastics
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