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Alexander Hedderich A year of Xrail Trade fair supplement European visions Higher standards in single- DB Schenker Rail at become a reality wagon transportation transport logistic 2011 Super heroes

4A DB Schenker Rail locomotives Dieselhydraulik Lok S DK Class E4DG 3100 DB Baureihe V90 D

Nordic one-off: The six-axle EG 3100 model of the EuroSprinter family was deve- loped to haul heavy freight trains out of the Great Belt Tunnel, even at half power and at a gradient of 15.6 per cent.

1999–2000 Weight: 132 t Launch:kW/PS: 800/1100 Anzugskraft: 201 kN Length: 20.9 m Power:Motoren: 6500 kW 4 Dienstmasse: 80,0 t Powerful package Total fleet: 13 Tractivekm/h: effort : 400 kN80 Tankinhalt: 3000 l Manufacturer: Siemens DB Schenker Rail’s most powerful and lon- Speed:Länge: 140 km/h14 m Achsformel: B’B’ Six-axle version of the gest electric locomotive with its six axles of- InterestingBauzeit: to know:1970-92 Radsatzmasse: 20,0 t EuroSprinter family built by Siemens fers a high-performance output of almost two-system locomotive designed for use in Anzahl: 408 Zugheizung: – 9,000 HP. The EG 3100 is a descendant of Denmark, Sweden and Germany. The 13 loco- Operator: DB Schenker Rail Scandinavia Hersteller: MaK, Jung-Jungenthal, Krupp, the EuroSprinter family built by Siemens for motives belong to DB Schenker Rail Scandina- DK, S, D CountriesHenschel, of Operation: Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) Scandinavia and tailor-made for operation via, a joint venture established by DB and the

in the tunnel under the Great Belt and as a Swedish rail freight operator Green Cargo. Pätz Christopher DB AG; Photos:

02 | Railways 49.9938°N 8.2823°E Mainz, Germany

Why Europe matters to us

he population of the EU recently exceeded the 500 million mark. Half a billi- on people spread across 27 countries and a rallying economy make Europe the T world’s biggest single market – ahead of the USA and ahead of China. Germa- ny, as the driving force behind this recovery, and its neighbours are reliant on effici- ent freight transport solutions – not least because the supply chains of industry and commerce are increasingly moving beyond national borders.

In this issue of railways you will find out why Europe matters to us. On the following pages we outline the key role played by DB Schenker Rail in this market today, as the only truly European rail freight operator – and how we are constantly developing in order to meet the high demands of our international customers.

For example, our new green initiative, Eco Plus, has obviously struck a chord: last autumn we unveiled Audi and Hermes as the first two customers to sign up for our

completely CO2-free rail transport services. Others are now following suit, with Lanxess becoming the first chemical company to opt for DB Schenker Rail’s virtually climate-neutral range, which is not available in such a form anywhere else.

Green logistics is also set to be a central topic at the forthcoming transport logistic 2011 trade fair in Munich. The special trade fair supplement accompanying this issue contains a lot of information about our planned presentation at this leading internati- onal fair. I look forward to your visit to our stand in Hall B6 and to one of our events.

Best regards,

Karsten Sachsenröder Member of the Management Board DB Schenker Rail AG; Christopher Pätz Christopher DB AG; Photos:

railways | 03 CONTENTS

Focus on Europe Company & People

14 European visions become a reality 29 Speedily to Zeebrugge Dr Alexander Hedderich, CEO of In port-hinterland traffic DB also serves DB Schenker Rail, on the company’s Belgium’s second-largest port opportunities and prospects 30 Port with prospects NEW: With emotionMobile railways really DB Schenker Rail Polska manages DB Port comes to life. See and listen to Szczecin on the Oder estuary and is inve- Dr Alexander Hedderich, DB Schenker sting heavily in the port’s infrastructure Rail CEO, and Member of the Manage- ment Board (Sales) Karsten Sachsenröder 32 BPO: the new BahnBauPortal Online on your smartphone! Found out how Web-based functions simplify wagon orde- it works on page 15 and in our trade fair ring and tracking and tracing supplement.

16 In the eyes of our customers Customers & Projects Three major international companies and their expectations of DB Schenker Rail 34 When a crane is hanging from a crane Liebherr sent two gigantic crawler cranes 18 How green is logistics? to Russia Guest article by Professor Dr Ralf Elbert and Stefan Rother (Darmstadt Technical University) 36 Reducing the carbon footprint Lanxess becomes the first chemical group 20 Innovation to opt for climate-neutral shipments by rail Longer freight trains can increase capacity on main routes 37 Major contract from Turkey DB transports steel pipes for Noksel Steel 21 New: DB Schenker Rail Romania Pipe to the Czech Republic Subsidiary creates prospects for rail transport 38 Partners of the chemical industry DB Schenker BTT is reorganising sales and now 22 Single-wagon transport: looking after customers from a single source Higher standards thanks to Xrail The Xrail international alliance makes 40 Super heavyweights from Finland an encouraging start DB plays a crucial role in the inter-plant transport operations of the Wärtsilä mecha- 24 DB Schenker Rail’s European network nical engineering company 02 Super Heroes Europe’s biggest rail freight operator at a glance – with many facts and figures 42 WerraKombiTerminal opened 46 On the move Kali-Transport-Gesellschaft (KTG) has com- 26 Range of single-wagon services to France missioned a new handling facility in Hesse 47 Save the Date DB is reorganising wagon group transport & Imprint and expecting rising demand 43 Connections being continued How DB Intermodal and its partners are Please also take a 27 A 50-year success story responding to the liquidation of ICF look at the railways Happy Birthday: the Euro pallet’s supplement on runaway success since 1961 45 Guest performance becomes a premiere transport logistic DB Schenker Rail transported the Schiller 2011, available with classic “The Robbers” from Hamburg to

this issue! Bavaria Spediton TRANSA AG; Gotthard AlpTransit Photos:

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WORLD RECORD ON THE GOTTHARD: 57-KILOMETRE- LONG TUNNEL THROUGH THE ALPS

No Frontiers 46.5381°N 8.5913°E Gigantic bridges and tunnels are creating Gotthard, Switzerland new rail links under the English Channel to the UK, and over and under the Baltic Sea to Scandinavia. In its photo montage railways shows how rail freight transport is overcoming natural boundaries in Europe both now and in future.

GIGANTIC CRANES ON THE WAY FROM SWABIA TO RUSSIA

48.2848°N 9.7219°E Ehingen, Gotthard AG; TRANSA Spediton TRANSA AG; Gotthard AlpTransit Photos: Germany

railways | 05 CoverStory Europe finds ways and means of overcoming its geographical obstacles. Freight trains operate under and over the sea from Central Europe to Scandinavia and the UK. In the Alps, new Lötschberg and Gotthard Base Tunnels are paving the way for rail freight transport in the future.

46.5878°N 7.6558°E 46.5381°N Lötschberg, 8.5913°E Switzerland Gotthard, Switzerland

the alps

Gotthard Base Tunnel NoStart/destination: ...... Erstfeld,Fro Uri (CH) / Faido, Tessin (CH) ntiers Length: ...... 2x57 kilometres Construction period: ...... 1996-2017 (planned) Construction costs: ...... €9..2 billion (as at 2008) Maximum speed: ...... 250 km/h Height above sea level: ...... 550 m Shortening of route: ...... 30 km compared with existing ...... Gotthard Railway..

06 | Railways 47.006°N 11.5078°E Brenner, Italy the alps

Lötschberg Base Tunnel Brenner Railway No FronStart/destination: .Frutigen, Bern/Raron,tiers Wallis (CH) Start/destination: ...... Innsbruck (A)/Verona (I) Length: ...... 35 km (single track) Length: ...... 200 km Construction period: ...... 1999-2007 Year of opening: ...... 1867 Construction costs: ...... €2 ...... 8 billion Height above sea level: ...... 1,371 m Maximum speed: ...... 250 km/h Height above sea level: ...... 828 m Brenner Base Tunnel (planned) Traffic volume: ...... 112 trains per day Start/destination: ...... Innsbruck-Wiltgen (A)/ ...... Franzensfeste/Fotezza (I) Length:...... 55 km Year of opening: ...... scheduled for 2025 Construction costs: ...... approx.. €9..7 billion

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RUNWAY: Öresund Bridge with the toll station on the ver the course of the past decade, or the changing of locomotives. Around 30 interna- Swedish shore and the transport links between tional freight trains cross the Öresund strait between the railway line Copenhagen and Malmö have seen Copenhagen and Malmö every day. between the two a lot of dramatic changes. The Öre- In doing so they embark on a circuitous route: the carriageways of the sund Link, which was opened in continuous welded rail track from Hamburg to motorway.. Road and 2000, was the first continuous Copenhagen via Flensburg and Odense is almost 200 rail traffic runs on two overland transport route from the kilometres longer than the legendary Vogelfluglinie, levels on the bridge.. O North Cape to Central and Southern Europe. The with the Scandlines ferry from Puttgarden to Rödby 16-kilometre-wide strait between the Danish capital at the halfway point now used only by international Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö is crossed long-distance passenger rail services to Copenhagen. by railway and highway. Looking from West to East, By the end of this decade, the planned German-Da- they first pass through a four-kilometre tunnel, then nish road and rail tunnel, under the 19-kilometre- emerge again on the artificial island of Peberholm, and wide Fehmarn Belt along the Vogelfluglinie route, from there they climb up to northern Europe’s biggest should – if it is realised – take rail freight transport to cable-stayed bridge, spanning the Öresund some 57 Scandinavia along the shortest route once again. metres above the waves. The monumental pylons that support this imposing feat of engineering above the Channel Tunnel falls short of optimistic Baltic Sea overshadow Cologne Cathedral and dwarf forecasts many a television tower. “The continent is isolated,” the patriotic British Together with the Great Belt Fixed Link between used to say, commenting on the foggy conditions Denmark’s main islands of Zealand and Funen, the in the English Channel with their own particular Öresund Link has overcome natural boundaries and brand of humour. Yet in transport engineering completely rewritten the rules of freight transport terms at least, the United Kingdom is no longer between Scandinavia and Central Europe. Since the an island. The 50-kilometre-long Channel Tunnel turn of the millennium freight trains have been run- from Calais in France to Folkestone in England ope- ning from the Hamburg-Maschen marshalling yard ned in 1995, linking the continental network with all the way to Sweden without tedious ferry crossings the UK railway system.

08 | Railways 55.5977°N 12.7579°E Øresund, Denmark / Sweden

No Frontiers the

Öresund-Link balticStart/destination: ...... Malmö (S)/Copenhagen (DK) Length:.. ..16 km (of which 4 km tunnel and 7..9 km bridge) Construction period: ...... 1993-2000 Construction costs: ...... €2..8 billion Traffic volume in 2009: ...... 15 million car travellers, ...... 11 million rail passengers, ...... 298,000 trucks, ...... 7,250 freight trains

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51.0448°N 1.5724°E Eurotunnel, France/England

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channelEurotunnel Start/destination: ...... Calais (F)/Folkestone (GB) Length: ...... 50 km Construction period: ...... 1987-93 Construction costs: ...... €15 billion Maximum speed: ...... 160 km/h.. Traffic volume in 2010: ...... 9..5 million rail passengers, ....2..1 million cars and 1..1 million trucks (both in shuttle trains), ...... 2,097 freight trains..

TRIAL RUN: At the end of 2010 an ICE train belonging to DB made a test run through the Channel Tunnel for the first time..

10 | Railways w UNDERSEA RAIL- WAY: The Folkestone Nonetheless, the double-track record-breaking Through the Alps at a height of 550 metres Terminal on the tunnel has not yet inspired international rail freight Europe’s main obstacle to transport is not the sea British side of the transport in the way predicted by optimists before but rocks – the Alps act as a powerful barrier sepa- Channel Tunnel, with its opening. The operating company Eurotunnel rating central and southern Europe. The three most the tunnel mouth in recently announced that only six freight trains significant transalpine rail routes traditionally the centre of the passed through the Channel Tunnel daily in 2010, traverse the high mountains at a dizzying height: picture and the English Channel in conveying 1.1 million tonnes of freight, whereas the Gotthard Railway at 1,150 metres, the Lötsch- the background to trucks on shuttle trains transported over 14 million berg-Simplon route at 1,240 metres, and the section the right.. tonnes of cargo through the tunnel. over the Brenner Pass even at 1,370 metres. Steep One reason for this is that the British railway inclines and historic tunnels limit capacity on these infrastructure does not match the European system legendary mountain routes. in one essential point. The so-called loading gauge – However, the railway is finding new routes which defines the maximum railway vehicle width through the high mountains. Freight trains have – comes to only 2.65 metres on the British Isles. been crossing the main ridge of the Alps at only Freight wagons with European dimensions are, 828 metres above sea level since 2007 – 400 metres however, over 30 centimetres wider, meaning that lower than the conventional route – through the they can pass through the tunnel itself but cannot first Alps base tunnel on the Lötschberg line in run on conventional British railway lines. Switzerland. The second tunnel, only a few kilome- Yet there has been progress even here: since tres to the east, is breaking all records: the 57-ki- January goods wagons with European dimensions lometre-long Gotthard Base Tunnel, which was can at least reach London’s Barking marshalling bored through in 2010, is the longest in the world yard. This is because the new high-speed rail link, and creates the first zero-grade rail link through the High Speed 1, has a European loading gauge from Alps. It is expected that freight trains will cross the the tunnel mouth in Folkestone through to Lon- Alps through this spectacular tunnel from 2017 at don, as does the marshalling yard in the British only 550 metres above sea level. As a comparison, capital. DB Schenker Rail, already the leading Munich lies at an altitude of 520 metres. The new operator in international rail freight transport to Gotthard route will be supplemented further south and from the UK, is expecting this innovation to near Lugano by the 15-kilometre-long Ceneri Base give rail freight traffic under the English Channel Tunnel, though it is not scheduled to be put into added momentum. service until 2019. With its Gotthard and Lötschberg Base Tun- nels, Switzerland is creating the necessary

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INTERWOVEN: South of Altdorf in Uri canton the new provisions in order to bring about the shifting of The DB Group is a pioneer in the technical

transalpine zero- transalpine transit traffic from road to rail, as has harmonisation of national systems – a prerequi- Picture-Alliance de/dpa grade rail link been enshrined in the Swiss constitution since site for cost-effective and fast freight trains across branches off (550 1999. DB Schenker Rail directs some 55 per cent of borders. In the European Train Control System metres above sea its transalpine trains through Switzerland, of which (ETCS) a uniform EU standard for control and level) through the two-thirds use the Gotthard Railway. In Switzer- safety engineering is gradually emerging, which Gotthard Base Tunnel will replace the patchwork of national systems on (centre of picture) land, the DB Group cooperates chiefly with BLS from the longstand- Cargo, in which it holds a 45-per-cent stake. main international routes. Extra-long freight trains ing Gotthard line The partners are hoping that the two base of 835 metres will soon be running from Hamburg- (1,120 metres, left).. tunnels will deliver a much faster transit through Maschen to Denmark, whilst the feasibility of train The new tunnel Switzerland and greater freight volumes thanks to lengths up to 1,500 metres is being examined (see mouth is located a higher unit loads. The zero-grade transalpine rail also page 20). few hundred metres link will also lower energy consumption and will Not only does DB Schenker Rail’s continental away beyond the lower edge of the avoid the need for a second locomotive, required for network already cross seas and mountains, but it picture in Erstfeld.. the double traction of heavy freight trains on steep also makes varying gauges compatible. Sassnitz- sections of the route. Mukran on the island of Rügen, with its railway si- Even further eastwards, on the Munich–Inns- dings in the Russian broad gauge and axle-changing bruck–Verona route in Brenner, construction of a facility, practically serves as the western terminus 55-kilometre base tunnel from Austria to Italy is plan- of the Trans-Siberian Railway. ned. To date, however, this project has not progressed And in Cerbère on the border between France beyond exploratory drilling. The historic railway line and Spain Transfesa, DB’s Spanish subsidiary, over the Brenner Pass is therefore set to remain a rail maintains an efficient facility in which freight freight transport bottleneck until 2025 at least. trains can be speedily and effectively reformatted from the standard European gauge to the broad No frontiers thanks to intelligent networks gauge of the Iberian Peninsula. The automotive Border-free rail freight transport in Europe is based industry, with its inter-plant transport operations not only on completed, semi-finished and dreamt- between Central Europe and Spain, is benefiting of infrastructure projects, but also on intelligent from this efficient interface ok networks and technical innovations. In this sector DB Schenker Rail, as the leading rail freight trans- port operator in Europe, is helping to set the pace

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European visions become a reality Dr Alexander Hedderich, CEO of DB Schenker Rail, explains in this railways interview how the company has regained momentum following the crisis, and plots the course for the years ahead.

r Hedderich, where does DB Schenker Rail rope. For this reason it is a great challenge to create a stand after the global economic crisis? How collective corporate culture. was 2010 in terms of profits and what do you expect from 2011? How about the issue of quality? How do you ensure punctu- Dr Alexander Hedderich: 2010 was a ality and good wagon availability? good year for us. We increased transport Hedderich: Quality is the key issue for us. We want D capacity by 12.6 per cent and are back in the black again. to offer our customers an outstanding service. At the This momentum is set to continue this year, although start of 2010 we were confronted with an extreme we will probably not yet reach the pre-crisis level of surge in demand, which we and even our customers 2008. We intend to remain on course for growth and to had not expected to such a degree. This situation was increase productivity and quality together with our cus- exacerbated by the fact that following the freight train tomers. Our chief focus is delivering good quality and accident in Viareggio we had to replace thousands of innovative transport solutions to our customers. Just a wheel sets under more stringent maintenance pro- few examples: we have developed a new wagon group grammes, thus reducing wagon availability. system for France, and together with our colleagues at As before, dynamic economic growth sometimes DB Schenker Logistics we have got the North Rail Ex- takes us to the limits of our capabilities. I can assure press running from Oslo to Narvik. We are also seeking you, however, that we are taking the right steps and to operate regular freight trains from China to Europe thus improving our performance day by day. Our cus- as soon as possible. tomers are entitled to a high-quality service and we intend to fulfil these expectations. DB Schenker Rail is now on the move in 15 European coun- tries with its own companies. How does this network ope- What is the situation regarding investment in new rolling rate? stock at DB Schenker Rail? Hedderich: That is another key issue. We invested almost €400 million in new locomotives and freight ”Efforts to protect the climate and the cars last year. For instance, we are purchasing 65 mul- environment will decisively shape our tisystem locomotives of the 186 series which can be used in cross-border operations and 130 Gravita shun- business both now and in the future“ ting locomotives with particulate filters. With this kind of fleet of clean diesel locomotives we are assu- Hedderich: In effect we have ming a pioneering role in Europe, as well as being the repositioned ourselves interna- only major rail operator to invest so heavily in single- tionally: in 2011, DB Schenker wagon transport. Rail is no longer a German rail 49.995°N freight carrier with foreign sub- Green Logistics has developed into a full-blown trend. 8.2809°E sidiaries but rather a European What is DB Schenker Rail doing in this area? Mainz, rail freight operator with a Hedderich: Efforts to protect the climate and the en- Germany strong foothold in Germany. We vironment will decisively shape our business both boast local knowledge in all the now and in the future. At DB Schenker Rail this issue relevant markets. forms an integral part of our day-to-day operations.

We are the only carrier that offers completely CO2-free HEADQUARTERS: It is our aim to create a comprehensive range of services transportation by rail. Well-known clients signed up The interview with Dr for our customers and transport solutions for industries to our environmentally friendly product Eco Plus Alexander Hedderich across Europe – national borders are no longer an impe- shortly after it was launched – and demand is high. was conducted by diment to our business. We are working on further de- railways in the boardroom of the DB veloping and also continuously steering our European DB encourages single-wagon transport and was the dri- Schenker Rail network. In view of the many different companies in- ving force behind the formation of Xrail. What is your as- headquarters in volved this is not only a matter of IT but also of directing sessment of this international alliance after a year in

Mainz. the human resources in this network throughout Eu- operation? Schenker Max Lautenschläger/DB Sämmer/imago; Photos:

14 | Railways Hedderich: Single-wagon transport is in direct com- petition with road haulage. At the same time it forms the backbone of European rail freight transport, with a share of around 50 per cent of national and cross- border shipments. This is a time-consuming and co- stly operation. With the Xrail alliance, which we established together with six European partners, we are sending our international customers a strong mes- sage. European single-wagon transportation has a future – even if other major rail operators are with- drawing from this business. In markets where a con- ventional system of single wagons no longer exists, we have developed our own solutions for our custo- mers. Examples are the Silesia shuttle, which offers single-wagon services between Germany and econo- mic hubs in Silesia, or our wagon group system in France. In Germany we are also working intensively on improving reliability and quality in single-wagon transport. ”DB Schenker Rail is no longer a German rail freight carrier with foreign subsidiaries, but rather a European rail freight operator with a strong foothold in Germany“

with emotion- What strategy are you adopting in this new decade? What role Dr Alexander Hedderich mobile you can will DB Schenker Rail play in the European logistics market in was born in Wetzlar, Germany in 1965, studied economics see and hear Dr 2020? in Giessen and worked until he obtained his doctorate in Alexander Hedderich Hedderich: We want to maintain and build on our 1996 as a research associate for the Chair of Economics on your smartphone. leading position in Europe. We would like to be the and renowned transport specialist Gerd Aberle. Following This is how it works: a spell with a Düsseldorf-based management consultancy first choice for rail freight transport services for our 1. Install emotionMo- he joined Deutsche Bahn in 1999. From 2004 Dr Hedderich customers. To achieve this we need to expand our bile free of charge was in charge of group development at DB’s headquarters on your iPhone European network, plan and strengthen corridors and in Berlin, before becoming CEO of DB Schenker Rail in (in App Store) or harmonise and modernise our IT. Technical innova- Mainz in September 2009. Android smartphone tions also play a key part: to increase acceptance of (Android Market). rail freight transport we have to do something about 2. Open the App noise control. Together with other rail operators we And a final question: what expectations do you have for the and hold the camera are therefore taking part in trials of a new “whisper global trade fair transport logistic 2011 in May? of your smartphone brake”, which we are currently testing with the Eu- Hedderich: We will show our customers in Munich horizontally about 15 cm above the rope Train. An important lever in boosting efficiency what we can do. We will showcase our European net- picture on this page! is longer trains. Our DB engineers are currently exa- work, present innovative industry solutions and put 3. The camera mining how we can double the maximum train length forward our sustainable solutions for climate protec- will recognise the to 1,500 metres. This also results in improved use of tion. We want to demonstrate that DB Schenker Rail picture and... see for the existing infrastructure, putting us in a better po- stands for eco-friendly transport solutions – we are yourself!

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A Focus on the environment and resource conservation in corporate management Green logistics are among Germany’s leading logistics service providers: whilst they have noble objectives, further action is needed in terms of implementation. Professor Ralf Elbert and Stefan Rother of the Darmstadt Technical University have subjected this topic to scientific analysis.

he topic of green logistics, in addition to changes in logistics func- vice providers examined had incorpo- the sense of environmental- tions (physical provision of services as rated environmental protection and ly friendly and resource-effi- the direct factor influencing the envi- resource conservation into their philo- cient logistics, has been ronment and resources) this includes sophy and half of them had also embed- gaining in importance for the required logistics equipment such ded environmental protection and years. Driven by the broad as warehouses, vehicles etc., and in par- resource conservation in their vision. T pub-lic debate on climate protection and ticular a consistent (re)focus on the part the development of explicitly environ- of management on the implementation In normative management, meaning ment-oriented customer requirements, of environmental protection and re- the general objectives as well as the prin- environmental legislation and regulati- source conservation goals. It is also nec- ciples, standards and rules aimed at on – which is increasingly geared to essary to lay down green objectives in safeguarding the viability and develop- transport and logistics – as well as rising the management system of companies ment potential of companies, it became commodity prices, these issues are cur- so as to achieve an organisation, ma- clear that most of them had also already rently on everyone’s lips and the leading nagement and development of logistics embedded environmental protection topic at various fairs and conferences. that realises environmental protection and resource conservation there too. All and resource conservation. of the companies examined had incor- Green logistics is already present in porated environmental protection and many areas of logistics. Many compa- Empirical studies show that mea- resource conservation into their corpo- nies now boast green logistics concepts sures aimed at green logistics in compa- rate governance, most were pursuing a and actively use green problem-solving nies have often, to date, been developed green corporate policy with elements approaches in public relations and in and introduced in isolation from one such as green policies or mission state- market positioning. Empirical studies another and not within the framework ments and also had elements of a green have shown that many companies have of a comprehensive green logistics stra- corporate culture. The extent to which already implemented measures along tegy. A similarly low level of intercon- this green corporate culture is realised the lines of green logistics or have plans to do so. Moreover, the scientific debate “In operative management environ- about the issue is continuing and does mental protection and resource con- not seem to be losing momentum. This article summarises the chief findings servation have barely been taken into of a scientific study conducted in 2010 Prof. Ralf Elbert in which we analysed the extent to consideration to date.” which environmental protection and resource conservation are considered nectedness was therefore expected in in practice remains open however. in management by major logistics ser- our study for green tools, methods and At the level of strategic management vice providers. concepts in the varying levels and areas there was noticeably less implementa- of organisation and management. We tion of green management. Most had The comprehensive implementation examined 14 of the 20 biggest German green organisational structures such as of eco-friendly and resource-efficient logistics service providers based on environment departments or manage- logistics, in the sense of a structural business, environmental and sustaina- ment systems, according to ISO change, can be achieved only if all the bility reports. 14000ff., for example, and at the same relevant corporate levels and divisions At the management level of corpo- time green strategic programmes. Ne- are geared towards environmental pro- rate vision and philosophy our study vertheless, few companies presented tection and resource conservation. In showed that most of the logistics ser- guidelines on environmental protection

18 | Railways A Focus on the environment and resource and resource conservation or measures tivities on the part of management and on green behavioural and human re- in particular the operative provision of conservation in corporate management sources development. services. This is the only way that logis- At the level of operative manage- tics service providers seem able to make ment it became clear that environmen- the best possible contribution to the tal protection and resource conser- creation of steadily growing eco-friend- vation had been given little consider- ly and resource-efficient value chains. ation to date. Exceptions to this were environmental controlling, route plan- The level of implementation of en- ning and green commissioning and vironmental protection and resource purchasing. Green operative manage- conservation in management but also ment of other areas and functions of in the operative provision of services “Groups of companies recognise the importance of green logistics whereas small and medium-sized companies are still lagging behind.” stefan Rother

logistics is barely mentioned however. now depends largely on the size and Our analysis confirmed the financial strength of companies. This theory that there has often be- is not least down to the available fun- en no direct vertical link be- ding for the research, development and tween the environmental implementation of green logistics but protection and resource con- also a stronger pressure to act from cus- servation tools, methods and tomers and the public. concepts of the various ma- nagement levels to date. In other We therefore assume that small and words, what is postu-lated at the medium-sized companies, which were most senior managerial level in the form not part of our study, take environmen- of a corporate vision and objectives is tal protection and resource conservati- thus far barely discernible at middle and on into consideration in their manage- operational management levels. ment activities to an even lesser degree than the major companies analysed and Environmental protection and re- that there is still great potential to be source conservation have not, there- exploited in this area too. fore, been generally integrated in all areas of management at logistics service The authors providers. It can therefore be assumed Prof. Ralf Elbert was, until March, the from the results shown here that many Head of the Department of Logistics Services and Transport funded by DB logistics service providers are able only Schenker at the Technical University of to a limited extent to exploit fully their Berlin and since April has been heading the potential for environmental protection Department of Corporate Management and and resource conservation. The initial Logistics at Darmstadt Technical University. successes of green services may already Stefan Rother, a graduate in be discernible but the major tools of business management, was until March a research assistant at the Department of comprehensive green management are Logistics Services and Transport, funded by still barely being utilised. DB Schenker at the Technical University of In particular, the goal of an overall Berlin. Since April he has been working as a green logistics optimum in environ- research assistant at the Department of mental protection and resource conser- Corporate Management and Logistics at vation requires after the integration of Darmstadt Technical University.

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railways | 19 20 EUROPE could be substantially operate at double the | length of 740 metres, of existing main lines Railways the freight capacity If freight trains can current approved INNOVATION: increased. n e end.” h t d n a con- train feeder for longer freight trains, trains, freight longer for ld oehr ac together pled lines which would then be ap main key on used be then could trains “These Rail. Schenker DB at ager of the “Longer Freight freight Trains” concept Man Project conventional Kandt, Jürgen explains trains,” two of together joining the from efficiency in boost greatest the achieve to sible train length to 1,500 metres because we expect focusing on doubling the current maximum permis- specifically are “We dimensions: other of thinking already customary inDenmark. Hamburgextendedbe will to 835 metres long is as – at Padborg to the Maschen marshalling yard south of crossing border German-Danish the from operating trains freight proposal, the to According Denmark. and Germany between operations transport in ity measures of competing carriers (e.g. gigalinercapacity-boosting the trucks).countering effectively basis, while permanent more a on transport freight rail of competitiveness the improve to help would This main lines that are already operating at full capacity. significantly increasing transportedon the volumes transport, freight rail of productivity and ficiency G DB istherefore planningafeasibility study intomuchlonger trains. More freight pertrain couldincrease thiscapacity. Many mainlinesinCentral Europe are already operating atfullstretch. Freight train times two In the long term, however,AGterm, is long Bahn the Deutsche In Longer freight trains are soon set to become a real 740metres.ef- boostthe could Longertrains to up of length total a with trains for signed de currently is infrastructure rail ermany’s the “freight train times two” concept, DB nary research into the feasibility of of feasibility the into research nary - Throughout all the prelimi the all Throughout - separated again at the the at again separated cept, for example, example, for cept, cording to the the to cording en cou being proved proved - - - - - and the right infrastructure. Togeth infrastructure. right the and current trains, suitable operating concepts the to characteristics braking and running because longer freight trains need comparable DB Netz AG and DB’s technology department Schenker Rail has been working very closely with long freight train with the Federal Ministry for Econom Schenker Rail. “But Innovation of Head involved,” says Dr Miro - numer the to owing term concept this of mentation prepared. “We are not expecting currently is programme research a within topic the of study a fairs, [email protected] Tel. +49(0)613115-60265 Contact |Jürgen Kandt [email protected] Tel. +49(0)613115-62400 Contact |Miroslav Obrenovic

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Photos: Naturbild/F1 Online; DB AG Prospects for Romania Hetzer, Managing Director of DB Schenker Rail Ro Rail Schenker DB Hetzer, of Director Managing Romania from asingle source. services between Western and Northern Europe and the chief factor is the continuing lack of rail transport ture modernisation, in spite of significant investment, addition to the still tangible bottlenecks in infrastruc 3 percent. tween the two countries, the share is only be a little transport over freight dominate quarters three than 7 per cent. For vehicles and machinery, which at more only of split Germany,modal a railwaysachieve the a major role in cross-border traffic to date. To and from rail networks in Europe, the railways have not played lion tonnes are conveyed intheopposite direction. further eastwards as goods in transit. Almost 12.5 mil ready to be consumed or processed there or to be sent goods come from these four states alone to Romania, of tonnes million 16 some year every traffic; freight for origin of countries important most the among where DBSchenker Railhasstrong subsidiaries, are also is Turkey and playing inRomania’s apart development. Greece Sea, Black the to rope tion on the corridor from Western and Northern Eu- freight traffic. Its geographical location in a key posi- cross-border in increase steady a ensuring are try, R “We have now closed this gap,” says Dr Michael Michael Dr says gap,” this closed “Wenow have in share: rail low for reasons main two are There longest the of one boasts Romania though Even Germany,Netherlands,the Poland,and Belgium with itsownwith traction services. DB SchenkerRailRomania andisstrengthening rail freight transport and transit country. The isnow locallybased subsidiary called Romania isbecomingincreasingly asaproduction important location nies in production facilities based in the coun compa foreign from investment significant and economy, export burgeoning omania’s [email protected] Tel. +40(0)213312207 Contact |Eduard Iancu the nearfuture. Railports are also set to be established in Romania in from a single source, services and count all on consistentreceive quality. Romania, to and Europe Western Northern from operations transport through ropean network. As a result, customers can now book is completely integrated into DB Schenker Rail’s Eu- workforce, 34 locomotives and more than 300 wagons now offeritsowntraction services. business processes and structures, the company can new with coupled wagons, and locomotives tional Withaddi services.” of range our expanded greatly have we Romania), (DBSR Romania Rail Schenker DB to (LSD) Danubius Services Logistic from iary mania. “With the renaming of our Romanian subsid tive in relation to road haulage as a result.” that we will make rail transport much more competi at DB Schenker Rail, with confidence. “And wetries,” believe notes Hans-Georg Werner,indus of Head variety ofwide a Region from companies East among est “Our new range of services is arousing great inter 170-strong its with Romania Rail Schenker DB

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21 22 Higher standards thanks to Xrail positive abouttheresults achieved thusfar: customers. therange issatisfying ofservices good year aftertheformation oftheinternationalallianceseven partnersinvolved are Xrail makes internationalsingle-wagon transport more reliable andmore transparent. A EUROPE | siding in Nuremberg. Railways An individual wagon rolls onto its sorting OVER THE HILL: Nuremberg, Germany 549.4106°N 11.1023°E quality which can hold its own against road transport. growing proportion of services they operate a level of freight operators have undertaken to ensure that on a relationto road haulage. Seven leading European rail in competitive more transport single-wagon makes which initiative quality a is Xrail benefits. tangible specific according services to Xrail standards.” operate can we whether often more and askedmore nagement at DB Schenker Rail, adding, “We are being NetworkMa of Head and Project Xrail the of Head down well going with the is customers,” reports “Xrail Sven Budde, date: to achieved results the about T With DB Schenker Rail (Germany, Netherlands Netherlands (Germany, Rail Schenker DB With Thisisnosurprise asthesystem offers customers year on, the initiators are sounding positive positive sounding are initiators the on, year port, Xrail, was launched in February 2010. A trans single-wagon for alliance European he transport in Western, Central freight rail of parts large for responsible is network Xrail Cargo (Switzerland) SBB as partners, the and Hungary) and (Austria Austria Cargo Rail Norway), and (Sweden Cargo Green (Luxembourg), Cargo Cargo CFL Republic), (Czech CD (Belgium), stics Logi SNCB Denmark), and - - - dinavia andtheRuhr region.” coal, iron and steel or paper shipments between Scan position, for example on key transport flows such as market our strengthening and safeguarding are we guarantees, Xrail that flexibility planning of degree high the “With Budde. explains cheaper,” usually and eco-friendly more is it potential: full its display really now can transportation single-wagon Xrail, “With sectors. mining and chemical automotive, the from example for transparency, and reliability of reasons for date to transport road on dependent havebeen who customers to interesting more ming to improve itto three days inthemediumterm.” seeking are fivewe days, to and period that reduced “WithdingtoBudde, shipments Xrail havewe now accor- workingdaysbut, nine totakesseven tations single-wagon transportation, the preparation standard of quo In reduced. greatly is quotation a of sion submis- the and enquiry initial the betweenelapses that time the least: not but last automatically.And and immediately time arrival new the of informed are customers delays, of event the In punctuality. cent per 90 guaranteeing also involved operators customersreceive rail the with fixed arrival – a time for allinternational connectionswithinthesystem. and Eastern Europe. There is a fixed timetable in place As a result, single-wagon transportation is beco is transportation single-wagon result, a As For every journey from feeder track to feeder track, - - -

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Photo: Kurt Fuchs/Photopool; Bernd Roselieb, Illustrarion: Illuteam 43 (2) High growth potential Three questions for Dr Christian Kuhn, Member of the Management Board for Production at DB Schenker Rail

What potential do you see in Xrail? Christian Kuhn: Single-wagon transport has a 40 per cent share of total rail freight traffic in Europe and high growth potential. With Xrail this form of transport becomes more competitive versus road haulage. We are taking a leap forward with Xrail in terms of reliability and transparency, believing that in the medium term we will be able to at- tract many shipments as rail freight, which would otherwise have been transported by truck. How is Xrail going down with customers? We are aiming to double Xrail’s share of all transport operations with- in the network – to about 20 per cent – by the end of the year. More- over, the impetus for starting a new service always comes from the market. We examine every customer enquiry. Indeed, both we and the customer have an interest in busy routes on which we can consis- tently demonstrate our new service. With the long-term goal of offering Xrail across the board? THE SINGLE-WAGON PRINCIPLE: That is still very much in the future because it will require some fun- In the marshalling yard a locomotive pushes the wagons from A to B onto damental changes. Single-wagon transportation in Germany, for ex- the hump. At the change in gradient (X) the decoupled wagons roll ample, is an open system: customers can contribute a random individually or in small groups down the hump, through the point zone quantity at any time. For that reason Xrail is not freely expandable in (C) and into the classification or sorting sidings (D), in which all wagons with the same destination are sorted on one siding and coupled together. this system because in order to guarantee a high standard we have to be able to plan the capacities beforehand. In the longer term we therefore have to reach a level of capacity management at which The partners involved had some home- Xrail quality can be offered comprehensively looking to the future. work to do before Xrail was launched. An IT system in which the participating part- ners set their timetables was developed before the rollout in early 2010. In order to provide customers with precise and NORWAY GOOD COVER: reliable transport information, realistic SWEDEN Xrail connects 13 of 15 transportation and turnaround times are relevant economic centres drawn up for all schedules. In addition, in Central and Northern the border processes have been checked Europe. DENMARK and optimised. There are now 178 routes, and therefo- re more than ten per cent of single-wagon NETHERLANDS shipments within the network that are North Northeast being operated in line with Xrail stan- BELGIUM dards. By the end of the year there will be Ruhr Central around 350 routes that comply with these LUXEMBOURG high standards. By then over 20 per cent GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC of all transport operations will be within Region of Munich the Xrail transport network. dv Southwest

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railways | 23 EUROPE DB Schenker Rail’s European network

From Narvik to Naples and from Manchester to Moscow: from the heart of Europe SCHWEDEN DB Schenker Rail is the only rail freight operator able to interconnect the economic hubs of the continent with the fringes of Europe in the North and South, East and West. NORWEGEN

RUSSLAND DB Schenker Rail DB Schenker Rail DB Schenker Rail (total): Deutschland : Scandinavia: Sales in 2010: ������ €4,584 million Transported goods: �72.2 billion tkm Transported goods: ���2.8 billion tkm Transported goods: �105.8 billion tkm Employees: ������������������� 18,384 Employees: ������������������������243 Employees: ������������������� 32,618 DÄNEMARK SWEDEN DB Schenker Rail Nederland: NORWAY Transported goods: ��������� 4.1 billion tkmEmployees: �������������������699 NIEDERLANDE RUSSIA GROSSBRITANNIEN POLEN DEUTSCHLAND DB Schenker Rail DENMARK UK: Transported goods: ���9.9 billion tkm Employees: ��������������������� 3,475 NETHERLANDSBELGIEN

GREAT BRITAIN POLAND GERMANY Cobra FRANKREICH ÖSTERREICH Belgien: Transported goods: 4.7 billion train-km Employees: ��������������������������33 BELGIUM UNGARN RUMÄNIEN FRANCE AUSTRIA SCHWEIZ ECR France Frankreich: HUNGARY ROMANIA Transported goods: ���3.4 billion tkm Employees: ������������������������803 SWITZERLAND BULGARIEN

BULGARIA ITALIEN ITALY SPANIEN SPAIN

MarktführerDB Schenker Rail is the market leaderMarktführer in these countries. eigenes EVU Countrieseigenes with EVU operational subsidiaries of DB Schenker Rail.

Transfesa BLS CArGo DB Schenker Rail LCH (Spanien): Schweiz: Italia/NordCargo: ungarn: Transported goods: ���1.8 billion tkm Transported goods: ���3.4 billion tkm Transported goods: ���0.9 billion tkm Transported goods: ���������������������

Employees: �����������������������1163 Employees: ����������������������� 400 Employees: ����������������������� 285 Employees: ������������������������� 51 43 Illuteam Illustration:

24 | Railways Number 1 is DB Schenker Rail’s position in European rail freight transport with a market share of 26 per cent, up from 20 per cent in 2005. 75is DB Schenker Rail’s share% of the Ger- € 4.6 billion man rail freight transport market – it was was generated in sales by DB Schenker as high as 85 per cent in 2005, showing Rail in 2010 – a rise of 13 per cent. that the deregulated market is working. 60,000 containers DB Schenker Rail travelled in 2009 in 1,250 DB trains along the around 2,000-kilometre Polska: Transported goods: ���3.9 billion tkm route from various VW plants to the automotive group’s Russian Employees: ��������������������� 5,323 plant in Kaluga to the south-west of Moscow.

SWEDEN NORWAY 3,800 t RUSSIA of iron ore are conveyed by a single freight train from the seaports of Rotterdam and Hamburg to the steel mills inland. These are DENMARK the heaviest overland transport operations in Germany.

NETHERLANDS GREAT BRITAIN POLAND 5,000 freight trains GERMANY are in daily use for the customers of DB Schenker Rail. The fleet consists of over 110,000 freight wagons. BELGIUM B Schenker Rail is a key engine in European trade and a FRANCE AUSTRIA tried and trusted industry partner. More than 60 per cent Dof all goods now travel beyond national borders. Reliable transport chains ensure that the main arteries of pan-European HUNGARY ROMANIA trade do not get blocked. DB Schenker Rail was quick to seize the opportunities offered by deregulated rail freight transport, SWITZERLAND building up a broad network along the major European transport corridors. On the North-South axis, for example, DB Schenker Rail can offer through transport services from Scandinavia to Italy from BULGARIA a single source through the joint venture with DB Schenker Rail Scandinavia and with a stake in Italian operator NordCargo. A ITALY broad range of services opens up on the East-West axis with the British DB Schenker Rail UK and its French subsidiary Euro Cargo Rail, and with DB Schenker Rail Polska. Block train ser- SPAIN vices account for some 43 per cent of business volume, intermo- dal transport (containers and other swap bodies) accounts for 33 Marktführer per cent and single-wagon transport accounts for 25 per cent. eigenes EVU The large railways chart shows in diagrammatic form DB Schenker Rail’s European network. Scheduled freight train ser- vices are operated by the group, its affiliated and partner compa- nies up to Narvik in Norway in the North, as far as Glasgow in the UK in the West, up to Moscow in Russia in the East and as DB Schenker Rail DB Schenker Rail Romania: Bulgaria: far as Valencia in Spain in the South. Transported goods: ���0.3 billion tkm Transported goods: ���0.1 billion tkm

Illuteam 43 Illuteam Illustration: Employees: ������������������������ 170 Employees: ������������������������180

railways | 25 26 France expanded Single-wagon options to tem via Belgium, in cooperation with the SNCB. In addition, northern France is connected to the new train set sys • • • • • yard, south of Metz, and from there they travel to: from Coming network. Mannheim, the single-wagon trains are German assembled the in to the Lérouville rectly marshalling Lyon, have been developed and into a train border, set system connectedSpanish di the coast, Atlantic southern the ranean, T EUROPE routes, over stations 30receiving are connectedtotheGermansingle-wagon network. ers additionalsingle-wagon andtrain set optionsalongFrance’s mainlines. Via sixkey set system”. Incooperation various with partners, DBSchenkerRailnow offers itscustom- The launchofthe2010/11schedule saw thesuccessful introduction ofthenew“France train |

Railways Hagondange as the “Lorraine Shuttle” (three timesaweek), Le Boulou in Languedoc-Roussillon as the “Le Boulou Shuttle” Greater Lyon as the “Lyon Shuttle” Perpignan and Port Bou as the “Mediterranean Shuttle” Shuttle” “Mediterranean (six timesaweek). the as Bou Port and Perpignan (three timesaweek), Bordeaux asthe“Atlantic andIrun Shuttle”

and from France. The existing to shuttle services transport own trainsits up building is to(DBSR) Rail the Mediter o gether with various international partners, DB Schenker (four timesaweek), (five times a week). - - -

[email protected] Mobile. +49(0)1609742-9916 Contact |Tim Krasowka to 10 percent. fully doubled its market share in France between 2008 and 2010 Cargo Rail is continually expanding its services, having success transportation requirements. Furthermore, DB subsidiary Euro ers another option for their European single wagon and train set ther developing its own network in Europe, offering its custom- the partners are certified to transport hazardous goods. Euro Cargo Rail, Europorte France, CFL Cargosubsidiary DBand areFrance in partnersEurorail. the SNCB, Alongsidethe All of With this train set system in France, DB Schenker Rail is fur- The overall system is managed by DB Schenker Rail in Duisburg. ok -

Illustration: Illuteam 43, Photo: Peter Widmann/avatra Illustration: Illuteam 43, Photo: Peter Widmann/avatra common standardised cargo carrier. The cargo standardised common the EUR flat pallet is now the world’s most the whole European transportsystem.” caught on very quickly and revolutionised it that surprise no is “It adding Services, Intermodal DB at Manager Load Equipment Griebel, Andreas notes go,” one ing railway wagons by over 90 per cent in cargo carrier reduced the time spent load timber standardised the of introduction a standardised exchangeable pallet. “The Railwaysagreementthe signed (UIC) on 1961. Fifty yearsin ago the International Union “invention” of its since not changed have mm, 800x1200x144 of sions as a EUR pallet), together with its dimen components of a Euro pallet (also known 78 500 millionincirculation. on, the“Euro pallet”isstill abestseller anestimated –with (UIC) created thestandard forFifty years atimberpallet. day: itwas in1961thattheInternationalUnionofRailways A modernlogistics classic iscelebrating amilestone- birth A 50-year success story With over 500 million in circulation, circulation, in million 500 over With planks make up the simple recipe simple for this golden the oldie: the up make planks eleven and bearers nine nails, - - the Gütegemeinschaft Paletten (Pallet (Pallet Paletten Gütegemeinschaft the EUR flat timber and wire-mesh pallets to to relating rights trademark the transfer 1970sthe assurance,ity railways sawthe quality controls. For the purpose of qual - millions oftimeswithaloadcapacity of sustainable a50-year-old ideacanbe. portant example of how environmentally im an is materials renewable from made carrier cargo reusable A environment. the and users both for advantages offer The exchange of EUR pallets continues to world. the in pool exchange used widely alongside the returnable bottle, the most is, circulation in pallets all of pool EUR The day. this to it on based are – truck standard a of area loading the to house rope – from the automated high-bay ware Eu in systems logistics of majority vast 1,500 kg naturally calls for the strictest replicated carrier load standardised A - - - ful path inallitsfifty years. let has thus never strayed from its success the level required by users. The Euro pal - at pallet flat EUR the of quality the tain To date, this has made it possible to main companies. monitoring independent by of manufacture and repair are carried out quality the on checks The tablishments. es member authorised by only repaired ropean Pallet Association (EPAL). European umbrella organisation, the Eu- the to GPAL),later – and Union Quality [email protected] Tel. +49(0)613115-3551 Contact |Andreas Griebel available at www.gpal.de. the anniversary. Further information is iPhone app is to be provided online to mark new Gütegemeinschaft Paletten website an logistic fair in Munich. With the launch of the 11 May at Stand B6/228 of the transport Deutsche Bahn AG and numerous guests on birthday of the Euro pallet together with Quality Union) will be marking the 50th The Gütegemeinschaft Paletten (Pallet transport logistic Birthday party at EUR pallets may be manufactured and

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The Belgian port of Zeebrugge, to which DB offers an almost daily shuttle service, is a key interface for ferry traffic to the UK, page 29. BALTIC SEA DB Schenker Rail Polska manages DB Port Szcze- cin and is investing millions in the port located on the River Oder DUISBURG estuary, page 30.

The new BahnBauPortal Online is tailored to the needs of the construction industry, page 32. Photo: Michael Lange/laifPhoto:

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Company Speedily to Zeebrugge Belgium’s second-largest port specialises in new then distributed via Gremberg to the whole of Central Europe in single-wagon transport,” notes Product cars and ferry services to the UK. A shuttle train Manager Willy Saamen. Towards the west, commer- connects Gremberg, in Cologne, with Zeebrugge cial goods such as beverages, toilet paper, cellulose five times a week. and foodstuffs are transported in conventional cargo & People traffic, which is largely transhipped from Zeebrugge to the UK. The Gremberg-Zeebrugge shuttle runs five times a week and is operated by DB in cooperation n port hinterland traffic, DB Schenker Rail serves with the Belgian railway SNCB. The train, which car- the Belgian ferry port Zeebrugge, a vital link for ries an equally full load in both directions, saves about Ifreight transport operations to the UK, which has 15,000 truck journeys per year.. ok met with success in the west. The shuttle service between Gremberg, in Cologne, and Zeebrugge, esta- blished in 2007, has continually increased its tonnage from 72,000 tonnes in 2007 to 327,000 tonnes last Contact | Willy Saamen year. “Towards the east, we chiefly convey paper for Tel. +49 (0) 6131 156-1676 our customers Stora Enso and Norske Skog, which is [email protected]

51.3374°N 3.1936°E Zeebrügge, HIDDEN CHAMPIOn: Belgium Zeebrugge port handled almost 50 million tonnes of freight in 2010, including 1.6 million new vehicles and 2.4 million standard containers. In roll-on/ roll-off traffic a million trucks were dispat- ched, chiefly to the UK. Photo: Michael Lange/laifPhoto:

railways | 29 30 Port with prospects its primelocation,toattract growingshipments, above allinanorth-southdirection. DB Port Szczecin isexpanding itshandlingcapacitiesforthanksto containers andseeking, Com Schenker Rail’s recent | Manfred Michel (58), is responsible for DB Railways PORT MANAGER: quays at Szczecin. investment in the pa ny & Peo & ny St. Petersburg and Copenhagen. Hamburg, with Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Szczecin Gdynia, connect Gdansk, Klaipėda, services feeder tre draught and a capacity of 16,000 TEUs. Scheduled nal can handle container freighters with upmore tothan adoubling 9.15-me to 200,000 is TEUs. capacity annual The the hour,new per termicontainers 35 to up Thanks to two new gantry cranes, which ofcan the eachcontainer move terminal at Finskie Quay up until 2018. Canal, to theCentral European inlandwaterways. Baltic port to be directly connected, via the Mittelland Hungary in the south.and Moreover, Republic Szczecin is theCzech only the Poland, as such countries of economies growing the and north, and the in Russia Scandinavia between hub a as especially tial, largest boastsBaltic port outstanding growth poten- second- Poland’s location, ideal its to Owing cargo. general and of containers primarily tonnes – 2008 in million freight 1.7 almost handled 340 and employs people Szczecin Port DB 2009. in back Sea A port for eastern Germany, too W 120 kilometres away. Areyouthisstatus? hopingtoregain Szczecin was previously thenaturalseaport for Berlin, just far as Italy. the direction of western Poland and eastern Germany as pand: a north-south axis from Scandinavia and Russia in ernised. It has niche prospects that we are seeking to ex port has some catching-up to do and needs to be mod Some €16.5 million is to be invested in the expansion p le also became a port operator on the Baltic Baltic the on operator port a became also operating as DB Schenker Rail Polska) DB (now PCC Polish the of takeover the ith President ofDBPort Szczecin Three questions for Manfred Michel, Manfred Michel: Firstly, Szczecin confidence based? in thebusiness. Onwhatisthis clearly demonstrating confidence and additionalinfrastructure, vesting €16.5million incranes Mr Michel, DBPort Szczecin isin- - - - - frastructure byinstalling anewLiebherrcrane. port operator, where it is currently improving the in- nearby Świnoujście with Harbour PH Świnoujście as in active also is Polska Rail Schenker DB Szczecin, products(11% toaddition investmentIn its each). in paper and steel by followed (13%), granite imported is tonnage) of (40% handling container after zecin rail andareduction inroad haulage volumes.” by transport seaport-hinterland of strengthening a particular, in expecting, are we capacity port of sion Polska.Rail Schenker DB atexpan- es “Throughthe Schreyer, Director of Production and Human Resourc saysChristian development,” transport strategyfor investment in DB Port Szczecin is part of a long-term 60,000 to “Our TEUs. trebled already had Szczecin corresponding role. with the expansion of rail links with the hinterland playing vanceda warehouse concept for well-known steel companies, distribution logistics. The initial projects include an ad We also want to offer our customers new services, such as sion of container handlingatDBPort Szczecin? Are you planning anythingelse inadditiontotheexpan- ship lift. nal system, thanks to the newly built Niederfinow Nord vessels will be able to reach Szczecin from the German ca way. In a few years’ time much larger inland waterway shore transport connections by rail, road and inland water location, 70 kilometres inland, together with the best on DB Port Szczecin certainly has the potential, thanks to its [email protected] Tel. +48(0)914308-777;Mobile693888636 Contact |Manfred Michel The second most important cargoPortSzc- DB atimportant most second The in handling container 2008 and 2002 Between - ok - - - -

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Photos: PR (3) water. container port by gantry crane for the the arrival of the new photo below shows away from Berlin. The only 120 kilometres to 9.15 metres, and is with a draught of up designed for ships the River Oder is DB Port Szczecin on IDEAL LOCATION:

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31 32 more important tasks A clear head for PEOPLE & COMPANY | needs ofschedulers from theconstruction industry. The newBahnBauPortal Online(BPO)istailored tothe Railways RSO’s standard to functions offersaddition further in industry spewhich BPO, the developed have we the construction industry’s particular requirements about the scheduling of their goods. “In order to meet needed or if a customer requires specific information is equipment special if differences also are there yet personal service.” support more a offer to able then are Centre Service tomer products, adding, “Our customer advisors at the Cus dreas Tylicki, IT coordinator specialising in industry An says tasks,” important more for minds tomers’ all that is needed. “With RSO we have freed our cus- and tracing to invoicing: a few clicks of the mouse are be handled online. From wagon ordering via tracking tal, through which the whole scheduling process can internetpor- (RSO) Online RailService the utilising helping to maintain anoverview. processes, simplifies and up speeds which hand at for error. Thankfully, there is information technology erything has to be done quickly but there is no room T Many processes are identical across all industries, DB Schenker Rail’s customers have for years been toring these orders and checking invoices. Ev moni wagons, shipments,ordering planning hectic; be can scheduler a of day working he

- - - - - cialised portals forotherindustriescialised infuture.” portals spe relevant the develop to plan “We ing therefore their workload considerably,” concludeslightening is Tylicki, BPO that us add told already have dustry in construction the from customers “Our efficient. more cycles turnaround wagon make to helps fore planning at the Customer Service Centre. BPO there available again without delay through fleet operations made be then wagon can this fax; notification by for customers’our sites,construction need the without to identify during unloading when a wagon is free on also be carried out online with BPO. It is thus can possible monitoring bay cargo tracing, and tracking and functions such as wagon ordering, usual the status to informationaddition In software. special install to behalf ofDBSystel GmbH. on programming system of charge taking company SPI the with portal, specialised the developed tre as well as the Duisburg-based Customer Service Cen unit service goods consumer and industrial terials, ma construction The phase. test and development cific functions,” notes Tylicki. BPO is completely web-based, so there is no need intensive an after 2011, in released be to is BPO [email protected] Tel. +49(0)203454-1649 Contact |Andreas Tylicki dv ------

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ENGINE BLOCKS DB Schenker Rail transports the heavyweight engine blocks manufactured by engineering company Wärtsilä halfway through Europe to Trieste, page 40.

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For Swabian manufacturer Liebherr, DB Schenker organises the transportation of a crawler crane to Russia, page 34. A Hamburg production of „The Robbers“ made a quick trip down to Bavaria for a guest performance, with DB Schenker Rail transporting the stage set there and back, page 45. Photo: DB AG Photo:

railways | 33 34 Maximum load capacity: l the Liebherr L “HIGH” TECH FROM SWABIA: loading operation in Ehingen Grab of Liebherr observe the crane of TRANSA Spedition (left) and Wolfgang WATCHIN c Proje & Customers Crawler track width: Travel motor/crane motor: Maximum lifting height: | attice boom craw Railways G C L O S E R LY: 1350/1

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When a crane is transported from Schwerte in 13 trucks to the DB DB the to trucks 13 in Schwerte from transported the crawler crane, weighing 305 tonnes in total, were of Rügen. At the same time, the 37 ballast weights of island the on terminal ferry Sassnitz-Mukran the at special route to ensure the safe arrival of the wagons TRANSA Spedition. permit for seven wagons,” transport notes Peter special Lochmüller of a obtain to had we that meaning high exceed the loading dimensions for rail transport, ponents which are up to 3 metres wide and 3.1 metres move them onto ten special wagons. “The crane com to truck forklift and crane mobile a usingthere, ded fromtruck the plant to the station in order to be loa by transported were components crane larger the Liebherr Since does not have Services. its own rail Russija siding in Ehingen,Railion and Rail Schenker DB (RLF), Forwarding and Logistics Rail AG, land Deutsch Schenker with together TRANSA sidiary at alifting height ofup to 152metres. operates which weightlifter, colossal the of balance made up of ballast weights that help to maintain the model weighs in at 560 tonnes – of which over half is 1350/1 LR The east. the to further kilometres 2,500 Moscow,some near Solnechnaya to Danube the on plant Ehingen the from Liebherr by manufactured crane crawler boom lattice a transporting to came it D Russia. by rail, road andsea from Ehingen to transported aLiebherr crawler cranes ion. TRANSA andDBSchenkerhave requiresportation millimetre precis- leisurely pacebecause their trans special-purpose cranes travel ata 2,500 kilometres in25days: large DB Schenker Rail directs this wagon group via a via group wagon this directs Rail Schenker DB This challenge was taken on by DB Schenker sub- best. This is exactly what was required when rage DB Schenker’s experts encou- to performregularly at tasks their transport emanding

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Photos: TRANSA Spediton (5), Illustration: Illuteam 43 Schenker.” DB at contact of point one only with Russia,all into deep Ehingen in plant our from crawler crane boom lattice 1350/1-type LR our move to operation port our own rail siding, to carry out such a complex trans “We are very grateful that we have been able, without pressed how impressed he was with this achievement: ed itsjourneydeepinto Russia. stoms clearance the 560-tonne heavyweight continu cu Following Solnechnaya. of town Russian the in kilometres, the crawler crane reached its destination 2,500 some and days 25 of total a for.After applied permits transport and followed be to had also tions instruc loading journey,special rail the of sections loading dimensions” on the Lithuanian and Russian Klaipėda inLithuania. to ferry railway by shipped finally then and wagons components were then loaded onto 21 Russian crane freight the all tracks, broad-gauge Russian with tion onRügen.Schenker railport Tel. +49 (0)7581 2036357|plochmueller@transa. Contact |Peter Lochmüller Tel. +49(0)5642949876 |robert Contact |RobertBlock iber rjc Mngr ofag rb ex Grab Wolfgang Manager Project Liebherr the “exceeding often were shipments the Since In Sassnitz-Mukran, the only German railway sta 48.2848° Germany Ehingen, 9.7219° .block@dbschenker E N

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35 36 completely free of CO through Germany transport operations all its single-wagon group has opted to run LANXE Reducing the carbon footprint Custome without COwithout Lanxess becomesthefirstgroup chemicaltoopt for Eco Plus-thetransportation by rail The speciality chemicals | Railways SS Leverkusen, Germany 51.0249°N 6.9807°E : 2 r emissions Germany. within 2 . s & P & s M resulting in a CO is being transported CO erations. An annual volume of some 110,000 tonnes Plus for Eco all domestic single-wagon transport op- man network. The Leverkusen-based company uses CO book to industry chemical the from customer first 2 - Ger the on Schenker-freeRail haulageDB with r c oje ity chemicals group Lanxess has become the to improve their emissions output. Special- I ore and more companies are using Eco Plus ts 2 saving of about 660 tonnes per year. 2 -free from the start of March, [email protected] Telefon: +49(0)XXXX-XXX-XXX | Kontakt |Vorund Nachname [email protected] Tel. +49(0)613115-73118 Contact |Dieter Baierle movements across Europe by75 percent.” used retrospectively to compensate for the CO offset schemes, where climate protection measuresso-called Unlikenetwork.with traction the intoare fed is electricitycorresponding of amountthe addition, able sources, such as hydro-electric power stations; in for Eco Plus transport operations is drawn from renew climate-friendly service from DB Schenker Rail. facturer Europipe have already signed up for this new, footprint.”Audi, the Hermes Group and pipe manu of services as an effective way of reducing their carbon “The success shows that the companies view our of rangethe Management Board (Sales) at DB Schenker Rail.across all sectors,” says Karsten Sachsenröder, Member milestone, and reducing the CO “Through the use of Eco Plus we are setting a further Member of the Board of Management Breuers, at Werner Lanxess AG.notes products,” our of shipping ever possible in the production and, of course, in the of avoiding ways environmentally on damagingworking emissions wher constantly are “We Lanxess: the generation of renewable energy. for facilities new subsidise to Plus Eco from income Germany).ern usestenadditionalcentDBitsper of by TÜV Süd (Engineering Control Association, TheSouth process and the purchase of energy are monitored greenhouse gas emissions whatsoever no with are Eco Plus. there transportation, conventional of sions The principle is as follows: the electricity required market the in ground gaining now is Plus “Eco Eco Plus fits in with the corporate philosophy at philosophy corporate the with in fits Plus Eco 2 emissions of our rail Leverkusen. headquartered in Lanxess Group is The MDAX-listed HEADQUARTERs: dv/ok 2 emis - - - - -

Photos: LANXESS AG (2) , PR (2) Photos: LANXESS AG (2) , PR (2) pleted inAugust. com be to due contract the with days, eight takes operation transport Each pipeline. Gazelle the of centimetres in diameter, 142 and destinedweight in tonnes for 11.5 the long, constructionmetres 18 to up pipessteel are board On Slovakia. and Hungary bia, from Turkey to the Czech Republic via Bulgaria, - Ser have been running weekly in the PowerRailer system operation.” transport the of end tothe challenges start fromthe logistical considerable with associated is contract six countries with five border crossings involved. The Schenker/RLFDB Vienna.for operationare “There transport the organising for responsible ner, is who by taking on this contract,” says Manfred Bernleith- single contract forRLFVienna to date. assignmentrail export from Turkey, and the biggest contract with the steel giant is DB Schenker’s biggest Turkey’sof one Co.Inc., steelproducers.The major bul) is handling a major project for Noksel Steel Pipe I of steel pipesfor Noksel Steel Pipe. and RLF(Vienna) are organising thetransportation Rail experts from DBSchenkerArkas (Istanbul) from M Noksel itself is taking charge of pre-collection by by pre-collection of chargetaking is Noksel itself Since the end of November, four to five block trains potential full its demonstrating is Schenker “DB Forwarding Vienna, DB Schenker Arkas (Istan Arkas Schenker DB Vienna, Forwarding and Logistics Rail with cooperation in tonnes: 92,000 of volume a involving project mega a is t ajor contract T urkey - - [email protected] Tel. +43(0)6648860-0321 Contact |Manfred Bernleithner site logistics andlocalpartners. truck unloading and coordination of the construction involves the handling of the road haulage operation, This sites. building unsurfaced largely over public Czech the Re- in consignees final tothe lastmile the the actual transport operations, as well as organising cially designed for this assignment. Added to this are and load securing, including using lashingequipment straps loading spe own their of sion provi the railport, the at wagons onto trucks the from pipes the of loading un the comprises This Vienna. RLF and Arkas Schenker DB of hands the customs as clearance. well Everything as else is in Halkali, in station railway the to Hendek in plant the from truck

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37 38 chemical industry Partner of the ing itself even more powerfully. the specialist inchemicalshipmentsisnow position- sensitive loads. Thanks toorganisational changes DB SchenkerBTT helpstheindustrytotransport its With itsexpertise andspecial-purpose equipment, c Proje & Customers | Railways tomer, thusincreasing availability andreliability. handling maintenance of and repairs, evencharge when the takes wagons belong toBTT the cus- Schenker DB time. any at tained Thanks to tracking and tracing, their current position can be ascer form, the right goods wagons are organised for every type of cargo. powder in goods or gas compressed to chemicals and oil mineral and tracing orfleetmanagement. tracking as such benefits additional with and service the supplement used, are partners when even standards safety and quality ists work out the customers optimum transit route,to ensuring compliance with delivery road throughoutdirect Europe. Depending through on the requiredor service the – special market the in and runs these using either intermodal traffic – using all operators provision of tank containers for various chemical industry products, BTT offers, in addition to its more standard transport services, the planning. make fast transport operations possible times whilst allowing transit for reliable standard Clear obligation. volume minimum a out with and notice at short services such book can customers gium, are punctuality In concerned. Germany, the Netherlands and Bel and reliability flexibility, as far as demands high especially with gency management. emer professional and equipment special staff, qualified highly by guaranteed is shipments hazardous the of handling Safe vices. ser shunting or unloading and loading of charge takes also BTT Schenker DB operation, transport actual the industry.the Alongside for transportation group wagon or single-wagon and ments BTT provides a full range of services, carrying out block train ship- to betransported across Europe onschedule, everyday. production chains,industrial meaning to that thousands indispensable of differentare chemical productssubstances need these of plosive, poisonous, caustic or polluting. Ultimately, ex flammable, be can however,they because goods manyhazardous as classified C Another product area is tank wagon management. Ranging from Asspecialista transportationthe in chemicals,of SchenkerDB customers by used service a is SCHENKERchem-solution DB Schenker DB chemicals of transportation the in specialist a As ing, as well as in transit. Moreover, chemicals are often often are chemicals Moreover, transit. in as well as ing, ment and particular precautions during loading and unload- equip special require which loads demanding are hemicals ts

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Photo: BASF - The Chemical Company Photo: BASF - The Chemical Company DB team fit for future challenges.” “Secondly, we had to make our 26-person sales verted our IT system,” explains Jan con Elfenhorst. we “Firstly, homework: some required This customers.” our for range product BTT are found from across the whole DB Schenker processes and ensures that the best solutions customers. Supervision our from a singleof source simplifieschain the supply the wards to geared is which organisation sales modal multi a for opted therefore have We term. long and medium the in quantitatively and benefits: “We want togrow both qualitatively Logistics & (Chemicals) at DB Schenker Sales BTT, explains the Director Elfenhorst, Jan several different specialists, since February. of instead manager, account key single a of reason, DB customers have been in the hands this For solutions. transport cross-product I the industry increasingly expects holistic, threeproductareas,forthe sponsible yet re were teams sales various past, the n S chenker B - - - - TT quickly. and flexibly processes required the up speed short such notice our customerat Clariant also had to demand high this meet to order In planes andrunways. of extra de-icing agents were required for aero At many German airports a substantial amount in thedesired time slots. harsh winter in order to serve their customers very the to owing conditions weather severe when all modes of transportmonths had torecent battle in with case the indeed was This problems quickly. unforeseen resolve to ability the as well as – stages of production. It depends on flexibility final and intermediate initial, the productsin both wagonload and intermodal transport for in time, some for expertise BTT’s Schenker chemical group Clariant has been utilising DB the example, For customers. by welcomed being are changes been the because have worthwhile invested money and time The reorganises sales - [email protected] Tel.: +49(0)613115-73118 Contact |DieterBaierle [email protected] Tel. +49(0)613115-73100 Contact |JanElfenhorst requirements.” our to tailored handling transport optimum achieve quickly we result, a As areas. all in BTT who is very familiar with our requirements Schenker DB at contact of point a have now we structure sales new the to Thanks gent. ur also but complex very only not often are contracts “Our confirms: Clariant, with ager As Michael Wagner, Logistic Purchasing Man thehighdemand. to copewith order in together required steps the all took immediately BTT Schenker DB and Clariant railways | - -

39 CUSTOMers & Projects Super heavyweights from Finland

TURKU-TRIESTE: 60.4348°N The engine blocks, 22.2423°E here having been Turku, Finland unloaded from a ship on Samms flat wagons in Travemünde, weigh almost 100 tonnes.

The railways play a crucial role in the inter-plant the loaded wagon runs in the middle of four unload- ed protective wagons, and this group of wagons must transport operations of the Wärtsilä mechanical not be separated along the way.” engineering company. Every week, engine blocks DB Schenker Rail will transport some 100 engine are conveyed in special haulage operations from blocks this year from north German seaports via Sal- zburg and Tarvisio to Italy. At the Cervignano mar- Bremerhaven or Lübeck to Trieste. shalling yard in Friuli the groups of wagons are arranged into a block train once a week, travelling on from there to Trieste. The exacting rail shipment he engine blocks, which weigh almost 100 takes just eight to ten days and therefore takes only tonnes, are processed by the Finnish mechanical half as long as the journey by sea from Finland to Tri- Tengineering group Wärtsilä in Turku, and are este. “It also depends on the consignors because Wärt- then assembled at its plant in the Italian port of Trieste. silä must, of course, ensure on-schedule installation These behemoths are used worldwide at gas- and oil- for the end customer,” says Heike Gosejohann. fired power stations and on ships of all sizes. Wärtsilä The route of the Wärtsilä engine blocks is, however, and its haulage contractor, Oy Wikeström & Krogius no north-south one-way street. In the opposite direc- AB, rely on DB Schenker Rail and partner railways in tion DB Schenker Rail transports engine housings from Austria and Italy for the rapid and safe transportation the SHW foundry in the Swabian town of Aalen- of the engine blocks through Central Europe. Wasseralfingen by rail to the north German seaports, “The engine blocks are transported by sea to Lü- from where they are shipped to Turku. ok beck or Bremerhaven, where they are loaded with special cranes onto our six-axle Samms flat wagons,” explains Heike Gosejohann, who looks after the client Contact | Heike Gosejohann at DB Schenker Rail. “These super heavyweights have Tel. +49 (0)203 454 6692

special requirements when it comes to rail haulage: [email protected] PR; iStockphoto Photos:

40 | Railways Rapeseed trains to Emsland New customer Ernst Rickermann Landhandel now procures rapeseed for its oil mill in Herzlake by rail.

B Schenker Rail attracted new customer chutes offering the option of both central and side Ernst Rickermann Landhandel GmbH in the discharge. DB Schenker Rail’s partner on the last few Dautumn of 2010. The agrobusiness produces kilometres from Meppen to Herzlake is Emslän- rapeseed oil in the village of Herzlake in Lower Sax- dische Eisenbahn EEB. ony, with a processing capacity of some 50,000 The family-owned Ernst Rickermann company, tonnes of rapeseed per year. Rickermann has a rail based in Herzlake in Lower Saxony, has had its own siding and now receives some of its deliveries by eco- concentrated feed mill since 1983. A new oil mill for friendly rail. the production of the company’s own rapeseed oil The unloading capacity is to be expanded through brand, RICOLZA, was created on the same site in investment in 2011. “The investment in an effective 2005. ok rail connection gives us a substantial strategic ad- vantage because we can now offer our suppliers both road and rail access,” reports Managing Director Ernst Rickermann. As part of a national block train transport operation, a train with 27 four-axle rape- Contact | Jürgen Schulz seed wagons is to operate to Herzlake once every Tel. +49 (0)40 3918-3486 week on average. The unloading is via delivery [email protected]

52.6938°N, 7.6024°E Herzlake, Germany Photos: PR; iStockphoto Photos:

railways | 41 CUSTOMers & Projects

WerraKombiTerminal opened Direct link to the ports in Hamburg and Bremerhaven

onveniently located in Germany’s logistics cen- KTG is relying on a three-stage principle at the tre, the WerraKombiTerminal (WKT) recent- facility, which means that the WKT can be expanded Cly started operating in the Hesse town of gradually, in line with the required capacity. “Through Philippsthal. It has an area of 21,000 square metres intelligent planning of the individual phases we can and currently two transhipment sidings, each measur- also easily increase the handling capacity further ing 430 metres in length. From here, DB Schenker while continuing to operate,” explains Hess. Rail runs the freightliners of the Baltic Train, oper- In addition to the terminal handling operation, the ated by Kali-Transport-Gesellschaft mbH Hamburg establishment of an empty depot for shippers and (KTG), three times a week to the seaports of Hamburg leasing companies is planned. “We are hoping to gain and Bremerhaven. “This favourable location offers additional impetus from this for intermodal transport even more options for shifting transport flows from and for the region, because there has been no compa- the region around Fulda, Gotha and Suhl from road rable facility in northern or eastern Hesse to date,” to rail,” explains Johannes Tenschert, Head of Mari- Hess concludes. time Accounts in the Intermodal market unit at DB “Many haulage operations have been conducted Schenker Rail. by road only because the region lacked an intermo- The operator of the facility is WerraKombiTermi- dal transport alternative,” says Robert Zydek, Head nal Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, a subsidiary of KTG of KTG’s Baltic Train Department. This is set to and Rhein-Umschlag GmbH from Oldenburg. It is change. The response has been pleasing to date,as mainly potash and magnesium products that are Zydek reports: “We are planning to expand the week- handled, but also goods for export and import custom- ly departures in the medium term, and the encourage- RIGHT IN THE ers from all sectors of the economy. The terminal is ment coming from customers confirms that we have MIDDLE: also open to other forwarders. “A significant number the right concept.” rb The new WerraKombi- of new customers have already been attracted,” ex- Terminal in the Hesse plains Heiko Hess, Managing Director of the Werra- town of Philippsthal is geographically KombiTerminal Betriebsgesellschaft and also Head Contact | Johannes Tenschert located exactly in the of the Container Service Department at KTG, based Tel. +49 (0)6131 15-67181 centre of Germany. in Hamburg. [email protected]

50.842°N 9.9785°E Philippsthal, Germany Photos: PR; DB Schenker Photos:

42 | Railways Photos: PR; DB Schenker services ofIntercontainer-Interfrigoservices (ICF), whichisinliquidation. DB SchenkerRail,togetheritspartners, with iscreating alternatives for the continued Connections being ture frequency in the Swiss market and linked up the ensure asmooth transitionforthemarket. Austria, Scandinavia andSoutheast Europe, so asto services in early 2011 in the direction of Switzerland, market unit launched a comprehensive range of new Intermodal Rail’s Schenker DB response, In rope. Eu Eastern and Southeast to operations transport as well as Switzerland, of direction the in services maritime operated chiefly ICF shareholders. its by Basel-basedIntercontainer-Interfrigothe takenwas fected.” af routes transport the all for solutions found have we customers and partners with Together noticed. un largely options transport alternative customers efforts of all those involved, we have been the able to “Thanks to notes, offer Rail Schenker DB at unit ket T TFG Transfracht, for example, doubled its depar- At the end of last year, the decision to close down Andreas Schulz, Head of the Intermodal mar- the liquidation of ICF has been prevented. As suspensionhe following services transport of - - - [email protected] Tel. +49(0)30297-5434 0 Contact |Andreas Schulz keeping these connections going. togetherareBerlin, in based both Logistics, Eurasia lessly maintained. Interrail Service GmbH and Trans seam being also are states, CIS the and Russia with WesternEurope linking services, “Westwind” and also offers an overland link to Sweden. The “Ostwind” expanded rail services to Southeast Europe and it now fully preserved. former West business unit belonging to ICF have beenderglatt, meaning that the container operations of the has been operating from Rotterdam to Basel and Nie via Wolfurt are also still in place. Since January,trosExpress Hupac network. Services to the Austrian Alba market the to locations Frenkendorf and Niederglatt Back in December 2010, Kombiverkehr (KVG) (KVG) Kombiverkehr 2010, December in Back rb - - - services. established new partners quickly DB Intermodal and its CREATED: ALTERNATIVES railways |

43 44 CUSTOMERS & P & CUSTOMERS tive reaches the Nowa | Huta rolling mill from LINE: Railways Rail Polska locomo Eisenhüttenstadt AT THE FINISH with its cargo of A DB Schenker Poland Nowa Huta, 20.0127°E 50.058°N slabs. -

tonnes of slabs on behalf of ArcelorMittal from its Eisenhüt tonnes of slabs. It was the first time DB Schenker1,400 to up carried Railand wagons 34 of consistedPolska crossing, Rail Polska. The Schenker trains, DB which passedof throughGraczyk the Guben borderGrzegorz notes sources,” re wagon limited of use efficient thus and cycles around Germanstandards. “With this order we achieved fast turn nationalhaulage semi-finishedof products compliedwith located 530 kilometres away. The service level of this inter tenstadtsteel plant totheKraków Nowa Huta rolling mill, ArcelorMittal steel group. DB SchenkerRailPolska handled anurgent order for the A Slabs to Kraków ro Schenker Rail Polska conveyed in total 30,000 30,000 total in conveyed Polska Rail Schenker DB March, of end the until January late from der: flexible operation in spite of the German-Polish bor

j ects - - - - - [email protected] Tel. +49(0)30297-57660 Contact |Christoph Tews Polish state-owned railway east of the German-Polishforwarders,which ruleasa purchased shipments from theborder. freight through handled previously were Poland to tions had performed such a contract on its own. Transport opera ok -

Photos: DB AG; Arne Declair/Thalia Theater Hamburg Slabs to Kraków

Photos: DB AG; Arne Declair/Thalia Theater Hamburg becomes a premiere Guest performance the stage set by rail toMunichfor aguest performance. deserves tobebroughtaudience. toawider To thisend,DBSchenkertransported The productionclassic ofSchiller “The Robbers” attheThalia Theatre, Hamburg, performances. division for guest Forwarding (RLF) Rail Logistics and ker Deutschland’s to Bavaria by Schen Robbers” was moved production of “The The Hamburg ON STAGE: - feldbruck on Wednesday evening, the whole consign because, following the guest performance in Fürsten critical time especially was leg return The truck. by overnight by rail, with pre- and post-carriage again back transport and Munich to Hamburg from conveyed chains withoutcompromising quality.” supply intermodal our intointegrated be can gistics lo removal and cultural havethatdemonstrated we Christian Stavermann. “With this transport operation a genuine was it premiere,” us for comments and RLF Marketingperformance guest Expert a was it atre from Hamburg to Upper Bavaria. “For the Thalia The the whole stage set by rail in three 40-foot containers Logistics and Forwarding (RLF) division transported of Fürstenfeldbruck, Schenker Deutschland AG’s Rail T The containers carrying the Thalia stageThalia weresetcontainersthe The carrying ler drama “The Robbers” in the Bavarian town Theatre wings. For a performance of the - Schil Thalia Hamburg the lent even has railway he

- - - - [email protected] Tel. +49(0)49639112-125 Contact |Christian Stavermann the removal van.” van.” removal the to alternative serious a as rail by containers of tion transporta the see I distances longer “Over cludes: con he As division. logistics this to rail by offered potential the demonstrate to wanted RLF of mann Staver however, Theatre, Thalia the from contract exclusively or ship.by handled truck been With the have they date to but portfolio, Schenker DB the of of a set involvestheatre tation – have part long been responsible forallaspects oflogistical planning. Friday on was weekend.RLF the at again needed was whereit early Hamburg in back be to had ment Removals Removals – and this is whatexactly the transpor  railways ok | - - - -

45 on the move

DOUBLE TRACTION: Brothers Hubert (left) and Joachim Kubek manage logistics supplies for the VW plant in the Russian town of Kaluga, not least thanks to their language skills.

Language skills in a twin pack

51.4089°N Hubert and Joachim Kubek work together as dispatchers and are back in 6.796°E DB Schenker Rail touch with their old home again – linguistically, at least. Deutschland AG, CustomerServiceCenter nippets of conversation in Slavic languages can be tions between Poland and the then Czechoslovakia, they heard emanating from Office A EG 11 at the Cus- were responsible for the smooth handling of shipments. StomerServiceCentre in Duisburg. Like any other Then the year 1989 came and the Iron Curtain fell. The day, the Kubek brothers are coordinating with their col- Kubeks boarded a train, this time as passengers, with leagues at partner railways – always, of course, in the their young children – and set off in the direction of the language of the country concerned. They can switch West. “We had few opportunities in Poland and wanted completely naturally between Polish and German or be- to start a new life,” explains Hubert. tween Czech and Russian. Their first stop was the reception camp in Friedland, Hubert and Joachim Kubek work as dispatchers on but after a few detours they ended up in Mönchenglad- the coordination of automotive transport operations bach, where some of their relatives were living. The two from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany to the brothers were always clear about wanting to work for the Volkswagen plant based in Perspektivnaya in distant railways again. They swotted up on their German and Russia. They do this together in a shared office – just as were taken on as rail traffic managers with the Bundes- they have always done so many things together in their bahn in 1991. In 1999, they moved as dispatchers to DB lives. In Poland they worked at the same railway station. Schenker Rail’s CustomerServiceCentre in Duisburg, to- They then left the country together and have since gether of course. pressed on with their lives together in Germany. They “Their” project, the management of supplies to the joined DB Schenker Rail at the same time, lived on the Volkswagen plant in Kaluga, located 190 kilometres south- same street in Mönchengladbach and sometimes they west of Moscow, is an ideal assignment for the brothers. even argue together. “But we soon make up again,” as- Their language skills come into their own here, as does sures Hubert, who at 50 is a year younger than Joachim. their experience of the local culture. Far from taking their Born in Upper Silesia, the Kubek brothers joined the role within such an important company for granted, the Polish state-owned railway PKP straight from school. As brothers appreciate it. “The fact that we have this oppor-

rail traffic managers working on border transport opera- tunity makes us happy ,” they both agree. rb Jan Rieckhoff Illustration: DB AG, Photos:

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