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DEVOTED TO TRANSHIPMENT Terminals and sidings: DB Schenker Rail combines the advantages of all transport modes Page 08

INNOVATIONS NETWORK SUSTAINABILITY Customer workshop Growth in transport International supply in Paderborn between Europe and Asia chains for German Pellets Page 26 Page 36 Page 48 EDITORIAL

YOUR ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF RAIL

Our aim is to make it as easy as possible for you to access and use rail in Europe-wide transport operations.

That is why we not only support your business with sophisticated concepts, we also provide a number of options for rail transport: we service “We supply the tile 1,500 freight transport stations in Germany and industry in Italy by rail on 3,700 across the rest of Europe. a ‘just-in-time’ basis.” Through our terminals, stations, hubs and multimodal JÜRGEN EISNER, KEY ACCOUNT MANAGER CLAY AND TILES, logistics centres, we offer a number of points of DB SCHENKER RAIL access to our network. Terminals such as the one in Burghausen (Bavaria) and Enns (Austria) are new hubs where transport operations are bundled. Multimodal logistics centres have long established themselves as essential centres for logistics services. Modern IT systems ensure the transparency and quality of transport operations. Our services – be they provided in London Gateway or in Antwerp – help trans- port freight in a sustainable and reliable way across a number of borders.

I hope you enjoy reading the magazine and look forward to having interesting THE TILE TRAIN customer meetings with you in future!

B Schenker Rail has been one of the demand at peak times with shuttle trains, Yours faithfully, D largest delivery partners for the Ital- with three single-wagon transport trains ian tile industry for many years. “We sup- departing from Limburg each week. The ply the tile industry in Italy by rail on a wagons are subsequently unloaded in Rav- ‘just-in-time’ basis. We deliver one third of enna and take on other raw materials for all the clay raw material they need,” says tile manufacturing such as feldspar from Jürgen Eisner, Key Account Manager Clay Turkey. The train moves on to Dinazzano, and Tiles at DB Schenker Rail’s BIC Div- before the wagons travel back to Wester- ision. More than a million tonnes of clay a wald. “A perfect rotation,” says Eisner. An Axel Marschall year is transported from Westerwald and additional 30 wagons a week deliver clay Saxony to Emilia Romagna, where most from Saxony. For more flexibility, DB Member of the Management Board Italian manufacturers of the sought-after Schenker Rail now also offers a combined DB Schenker Rail tiles are based. transport solution from Limburg and has The clay trains are commissioned by the also acquired 50 open-top 30 ft containers. three freight forwarders DB Schenker Ital- The return flows in the clay concept en- ia, Cargo Clay Logistics and GL&T Cargo, sure better train utilisation rates: “In our who organise supplies for the Italian tile system we transport up to 300,000 tonnes Online – whether on a mobile or desktop device – or in traditional hard copy, factories. Every week, nine block trains, a year back to Germany. At least 160,000 we communicate with our customers through many channels. You can each consisting of 34 wagons and carrying tonnes of that is tiles,” says Eisner. an download railways to take away on smartphones and tablet computers at the 3,060 gross tonnes of clay make the jour- Apple AppStore and Google Play. Simply download and install the ney from Limburg, through Switzerland Contact | Jürgen Eisner Tjaden 03: Oliver Nina Bannemann, 02: DPA, to Reggio nell’Emilia. DB Schenker Rail’s Telephone: +49 (0)681 3082368 app – and youll always have the very latest issue at hand.

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FOCUS: ACCESS TO THE NETWORK WoMEN AT WORK: THE Combined transport is growing, demand for multimodal transport solutions DB SCHENKER is increasing at a rapid pace. With 5,200 sidings, terminals and multimodal logistics RAIL ITALIA centres, DB Schenker Rail offers every customer access to rail freight transport. OPERATIONS TEAM

FOCUS 38 THE PULP SPRINTER SYSTEM FOR A VOLATILE SECTOR 08 EXPLOIT ADVANTAGES, With its intelligent logistics solutions, BYPASS DISADVANTAGES DB Schenker Rail helps customers More and more customers from various in the pulp and paper industry be more industries are switching to intermodal competitive. transport.

10 A PASSION FOR COMBINED CUSTOMERS & PROJECTS TRANSPORT The newly opened KombiTerminal Burg- 44 SUPPLIES IN ONE GO hausen offers customers new options The FRIPA paper factory complies with for transhipping freight from rail to road. the highest environmental standards. The company relies on DB Schenker Rail 16 “EXPECTATIONS ARE for delivery of its pulp supply. GETTING HIGHER!” Steel manufacturers need intelligent 46 ROYAL MAIL EXTENDS transport solutions, says Steffen Schreiterer TRANSPORT CONTRACT of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. DB Schenker Rail has retained an important customer: Britain’s Royal Mail has 20 “ENORMOUS CAPACITY” extended its transport contract with the The Enns Container Terminal is rail freight operator. currently undergoing modernisation: a conversation with Managing Directors 48 GREEN ENERGY AND GREEN Otto Hawlicek and Michael Heinemann. LOGISTICS DB Schenker Nieten and DB Schenker Logistics are working together on MARKETS & INNOVATIONS transport operations for German Pellets.

26 HOTBED OF INNOVATION 52 EXPRESS TRAIN TO THE Innovations Workshop for DB Schenker Rail MEDITERRANEAN metals and coal customers at DB Schenker Rail Automotive switches DB’s maintenance plant in Paderborn. inter-plant transport operations from Germany to Spain from road to rail. 30 AN INDUSTRY PRACTISES FOR AN EMERGENCY Number one topic on the agenda: safety! 58 FINAL CALL / SAVE THE DATE / PUBLICATION DB Schenker BTT and DB Schenker DETAILS Rail Nederland organise Rail Safety Days.

36 A HEAVY LOAD ON THE LONDON GATEWAY: NEW SILK ROAD railways is also available in German as an DB SCHENKER RAIL UK The Trans-Eurasia Logistics GmbH train Getty Images Tjaden, Oliver connections between China and Europe app or in print. OFFERS MORE INTERMODAL

complement sea and air routes perfectly. Photos: TRANSPORT SERVICES

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LONDON/UK ANUBIS: INNOVATION OF THE YEAR The innovative Anubis booking software was not only honoured in the “Innovation of the Year” category at last year’s National Rail Awards; it was also highly commended at this year’s Rail Business Awards in London. Anubis is considered the most advanced order management system on the market, with full digital integration for customers and partners. The integrated track-and-trace func- tion enables consignments to be followed along the entire supply chain. Steve Pryce, Head of Marketing at DB Schenker Rail UK, said: “We are proud of the recognition given and are glad to be able to share the benefits of this innovation with our customers and partners.” The Rail Business Awards are presented annually by well-known logistics experts and supported by sponsors from across the industry. mh

FRANKFURT AM MAIN/GERMANY ZABRZE/POLAND STAY UP TO DATE WITH RAILWAYS NEWS REOPENING OF LINE 272 The world is changing and so is our business. So that you are DB Schenker Rail Polska and the Polish rail infrastructure ­always kept up to date, DB Schenker Rail has developed a company Infra Silesia have jointly implemented an initial sec- newsletter that regularly provides you with information on the tion of Line 272. By the end of December 2014, the two com- latest important developments. What have we learnt from panies had managed to complete the important railway line FRANKFURT AM MAIN / GERMANY other assignments recently? What new products are on offer? within six months. Earlier, they had secured a tender from NEW HEAD OF INTERMODAL What changes will affect the various sectors over the next the Polish railway PKP PLK S.A. to implement and document At the beginning of April, Dirk Steffes weeks and months? The newsletter will be delivered electroni- the eleven-kilometre-long Ostrzeszów-Ostrów Wielkopolski took over as Head of Industry Sector cally. Once you’ve registered for the newsletter youll always track section. The line was originally commissioned in 1875 Intermodal at DB Schenker Rail. ­ have the latest news at your fingertips! Have you signed up by the brothers Wilhelm and Bogusław Radziwiłł and now He follows Andreas Schulz, who was yet? an forms part of the Polish modernisation programme. By 2020, ­appointed to a management role at the country plans to invest the equivalent of €3.5 billion in its DUSS in summer 2015. Steffes was pre- More information at dbschenker.com/newsletter-en rail network. an viously a Member of the Board at TX Logistik and joined DB Schenker Rail in 2013. an London Frankfurt am Main

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VIENNA/AUSTRIA GIJÓN/SPAIN TRANSFESA TAKES ON PORT SHUNTING STATE PRIZE FOR THE ENNS CONTAINER TERMINAL The Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technol- ogy (bmvit) has awarded the State Prize for Mobility to the Container DB Schenker Rail’s Spanish subsidiary, Transfesa, has Terminal Enns GmbH (CTE) for the way it has linked the multimodal been awarded the contract for shunting services in the sea terminal with industrial centres across Europe. CTE’s Managing port of Gijón, one of the most important ports on Spain’s ­Directors Otto Hawlicek and Michael Heinemann accepted the award northern coast. This assignment, which was put out to together with their team. The terminal, which is operated by a joint public ­tender, covers a two-year contract with an option venture between DB Schenker Rail and Kaindl Invest, is currently of an ­extension for a further two years. With this deal, undergoing expansion and a number of infrastructure improvements Transfesa is committed to shunting bulk freight, grain and (see also page 20). mh coal arriving at the port and steel consignments leaving. Gijón Transfesa is also responsible for managing the signals, the rail crossing and the points. Nine new employees have been taken on. mh FRANKFURT AM MAIN/GERMANY ALL CHANGE Dr Alexander Hedderich, Chairman of the NEW YORK/USA Management Board at DB Schenker Rail AG RAILWAYS WINS DESIGN PRIZE since September 2009, stepped down from At this year’s Astrid Awards for design communica- his position on 31 August and is leaving the

tions, the railways magazine was awarded the silver Prisma, zvg Max Lautenschläger, Roselieb, Bernd Group. Matthias Reichel, Member of the prize. The jury – comprising internationally renown- Management Board for Finance/Controlling,

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EXPLOIT ADVANTAGES, BYPASS DISADVANTAGES

More and more clients from various Multimodal transport involves intelligently com- industries are switching to comprehensive bining the system advantages of different transport modes. For example, the ability of rail to transport transport solutions. DB Schenker Rail large volumes efficiently over long distances is com- offers a number of points of access to the bined with the flexibility offered by heavy goods ve- environmentally friendly rail transport hicles, which are ideally suited for collection and mode and multimodal services – all from distribution transport operations over short distances. Supply chains interlinked in this way are environ- a single source. mentally friendly and reliable because they exploit the advantages of each respective transport mode fully ultimodal transport operations involve the use and efficiently. M of two or more transport modes. Either the load However, there is a long list of preconditions that itself or the loading unit is moved from one mode of are essential if rail transportation is to grow further. transport to another. In intermodal or combined The political will must be there to have an integra- transport, standardised loading units – containers, ted European rail network with uniform infrastruc- swap bodies and semi-trailers – are transhipped and ture and technology so that Europe-wide multimodal transported by ship, lorry and rail. It’s becoming in- transport operations can be planned quickly and reli- creasingly popular, with more and more customers ably. And of course there is a need for enough railway taking advantage of the intermodal options on offer stations, sidings, terminals and multimodal logistics by ­DB Schenker Rail. Experts predict that CT will centres to make it possible to design competitive mul- grow by up to four per cent annually in Europe over timodal solutions through appropriate points of access. the coming 15 years. Multimodal solutions in which Europe’s largest rail freight company has a lot to the load itself changes transport mode are also beco- offer in this regard. Around 31,000 employees work ming increasingly common. for DB Schenker Rail in 15 countries across Europe. The reasons behind this development are complex. They operate 4,200 customer sidings and the largest Companies are relying more and more on standardi- rail fleet on the continent. With multimodal logistics sed equipment as they buy and sell goods – especial- centres from Lulea in Sweden to Athens in Greece, and ly in sophisticated supply chains such as in the from Irun in the Basque Country to Halkali in Turkey, automotive industry. In addition, there is the incre- DB Schenker Rail offers all its customers that do not asing flexibility offered by new types of load carriers. have sidings access to the world’s largest freight trans- This growth in environmentally friendly transport port network. an also has political support: the EU wants to switch half TRANSHIPMENT: of road transport to rail by 2050 and is providing fun- You can find our multimodal logistics centres at Martin Kroll A container is placed on a wagon ding to that end. dbschenker.com/multimodal-railaccess in the combined transport terminal

Photos: Photos: in Burghausen (KTB).

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n the middle of a forest, not far from the historical planned site in the protected forest. Not only did Hans IN STORAGE: I town of Burghausen, lies the Burghausen combined Steindl have to explain to citizens that 15 hectares of Containers are transport terminal, or KTB. Everything on the site is their municipal forest would have to be cleared, he moved using the reach stacker. shrouded in the aura of the new. The enormous gantry also had to persuade the Bavarian state government crane is a blaze of fresh colour, the access roads look that the terminal could not just as easily be built in as if they’ve been polished clean, and the bright green seven alternative locations. To compensate for the lost lawns are mown neatly. Although the terminal was woodlands, land surrounding the protected forest was only opened officially on 19 January 2015, it has actu- purchased and forested. “These two measures alone ally been operational since the end of November 2014. cost €2 million.” As Hans Steindl arrives at the Burghausen com- Steindl is particularly proud of the support of the bined transport terminal for the opening ceremony, it Burghausen residents. “Everyone here knows how is relief, more than anything else, that he feels. The important industry is to the region,” he says. It has mayor of Burghausen played an instrumental role in brought 17,000 well-paid jobs to the area and in return, driving the construction of the terminal forward. He citizens benefit from excellent infrastructure: free founded RegioInvest, an investment consortium in nurseries, a municipal music school, three swimming which the town of Burghausen holds a 72 per cent pools, extensive sports facilities and good public trans- stake and which raised a third of the construction cost port. The thriving economy has been a blessing for of around €26 million. Around 80 per cent of that was Burghausen. “We didn’t want to spend the tax income funded by the German Federal Railway Authority. from industry on prestige projects. We wanted to in- “The construction of a freight transport terminal was vest in an infrastructure project that would benefit a completely new field for us as a town council,” says industry in the area,” explains Steindl. Steindl. As the mayor drives over the bridge under The terminal’s operations centre is bustling with which the tracks lie, he can see the white gantry crane. activity. Every now and then the door opens and a He knows that he’s pulled it off. driver enters with dispatch documents. There is a noticeboard on the wall opposite the dispatch centre. OPERATED BY A JOINT VENTURE COMPANY “Pack ma’s” (“Let’s get the show on the road”) is writ- The terminal is operated by KombiTerminal Burghau- ten in icing on a gingerbread heart that hangs next to sen GmbH. The aim of this joint venture company, the safety regulations. Here in Southern Bavaria, in- which is owned by DB Schenker BTT GmbH, Deutsche termodal logistics is very close to their hearts. Thirt- Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße (DUSS) mbH een members of staff work in shifts to ensure almost and Karl Schmidt Spedition GmbH & Co. KG, is to continuous operation. satisfy the increasing demand for combined transport. KTB is currently in the first expansion phase, but Extra capacity is created to improve the links between it is already running at such full capacity that a second road and rail and to optimise the transport network of expansion phase is in planning. “We are already mak- the chemical industry and other sectors. 30 big com- ing plans for a second gantry crane and we are con- panies that employ 25,000 staff with an annual turn- sidering building an additional bypass track to over of €8 billion are based in the immediate complement the four tracks already in use,” explains surroundings of KTB. Regional solutions from a single the operations manager of KTB, Wilhelm Schönhuber. source are required here. With KTB, these companies That would raise the number of transhipments to have a local partner who can meet these demands. around 60,000 a year. Up to 900 trains could be pro- Until recently, industry in and around Burghausen cessed here annually, bringing even more transport was dependent on the road network. Mayor Hans operations off the roads and onto the more environ- Steindl, who has held the office in the town of 18,000 mentally friendly railways. Berthold Jesse, Managing residents since 1990, recognised early on what was in Director of KTB and DB Schenker BTT, explains: “We A PASSION FOR store for the region. He saw the traffic jams on the B12 help our customers succeed by sharing the expertise towards Munich and the miles of lorries coming to a we have in global logistics chain execution across dif- COMBINED TRANSPORT standstill on the motorway between Passau and Re- ferent transport modes – especially for sustainable and gensburg. He was irritated by the federal government’s resource-saving transport operations.” The newly opened Burghausen combined transport terminal is the traffic planning, in which Burghausen, a town rich in The transhipment of goods for the chemical indus- scene of intense activity. The terminal offers customers in the region industry and wealth creation, was ignored. His re- try is the focus here but KTB can, of course, do much around the Bavarian chemical triangle new options for transhipping sponse: “We can’t build motorways or highways – that more than that. “We are fully equipped to tranship freight from road to rail. Despite the short period of time the site has been is a federal matter. But we can build a transhipment any kind of goods that are transported in containers,” Martin Kroll terminal.” Wilhelm Schönhuber explains. “Strict adherence to operational, the transhipment facility has already reached its peak capacity. A number of obstacles had to be overcome before schedules and impeccable service are a matter of

The operators are already planning the next expansion stage. Photos: everything was ready. One of these hurdles was the course.”

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As a public terminal, KTB can be used by all custo­ Transfracht’s comprehensive AlbatrosExpress net- with or without a load, and which container he is to CENTREPIECE: mers. It offers direct train connections to the German work in cooperation with BTT. Since then, the Alba- receive or where he should set its load down. The gantry crane can ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven, with eight de­ trosExpress has been operating six times a week He pushes the lever forward carefully and the grip- lift up to 42 tonnes and covers more than partures each week. Plans are being considered for between the growing economic region and the vari- per sinks down until it comes to a rest on the container. 600 metres of tracks. connections to Antwerp and Rotterdam further down ous container terminals in Bremerhaven and Ham- Only when all four pivot pins are hooked into the cor- the line. The Burghausen combined transport ter­ burg. The inland seaport traffic specialist had already ners do the lights on the gripper start to flash and minal in the South Bavarian chemical triangle is firm­ increased the frequency of its services to Bavaria in ly integrated into the European intermodal and rail April 2015. Since then, there was at least one daily networks. It was already clear before KTB was opened connection between the Munich/Augsburg, Nurem- that there was a lot of interest in intermodal solutions berg/Bamberg and Regensburg terminals and the in the region. Now that the terminal is operational, it various container terminals of the German seaports. appears that the transhipment terminal is not only With the Burghausen combined transport terminal important for regional clients. In terms of the number now connected, the number of weekly departures of trains, the terminal reaches full capacity almost rises to 41. every day. KTB’s biggest customer at the moment is Wacker For the largest project of his 25 years in office, this Chemie AG, which is also based in Burghausen. “We is a good result for Hans Steindl. The mayor is par- see logistics as a fundamental part of the quality of ticularly happy that the project was able to attract the the product,” explains Dr Thomas Bronnert, head chemical logistics company DB Schenker BTT GmbH of logistics at Wacker Chemie. “With the Burghau- – a DB subsidiary – as the operator. “With this, we sen combined transport terminal, we have the ne- have the European rail freight company DB Schenker cessary capacity for growing combined transport, Rail on board. They can best ensure that freight trans­ thereby ensuring that our location in Burghausen port is really moved off the roads and onto the tracks.” remains competitive.” The company – a chemical group that operates globally – also uses KTB to store MORE OPTIONS its empty containers. There is room here for around Rail is playing its part. On 14 June 2015, the Burghau­ 800 containers over an area of 10,000 square metres. sen combined transport terminal was linked to TFG At the moment, around 400 containers stand on the site, on which a Kalmar reach stacker is diligently going about its work. “I’ve really got my hands full at the moment,” shouts Daniel Janovsky from the Markus Keller can lift the gripper again. The driver, BURGHAUSEN BURGHAUSEN COMBINED driver’s cabin of the Kalmar with a beaming smile. who works for Spedition Schmidt, stands next to his COMBINED He later explains that when he’s driving the ma- vehicle watching every step of the unloading process TRANSPORT TRANSPORT TERMINAL TERMINAL: chine, he is doing much more than just doing a job. with a keen eye. He gives a brief wave, climbs into his The terminal is Infrastructure He’d already loved driving Kalmars in his home cab and drives back to the facility. He’ll be back short- situated in a perfect · 3 transhipment tracks, each 600/680 m in length country Slovakia. ly with a new container and the procedure will start location in Bavaria’s (craneable length 555/610 m) again from the beginning. This is repeated until the chemical triangle. · 1 bypass track 750 m in length (craneable length 610 m) EXPERIENCE AT GREAT HEIGHT whole freight train, which can be up to 600 metres · 1 gantry crane (manufacturer: Künz, A-Hard), Markus Keller’s office is twelve metres above ground, long, is fully loaded. hoist power under spreader 42 tonnes high up in the cabin of the gantry crane. The crane For Mayor Hans Steindl this view is a promise of a · 1 HGV traffic lane driver knows exactly how much delicacy is required better future. In his opinion, a comprehensive expan- · 1 HGV loading lane when lifting and lowering the containers. The gantry sion of rail freight transport is the only chance of · 4 storage lanes with triple stacking crane can lift up to 42 tonnes, runs on two parallel avoiding the collapse of the German road network and · Storage capacity: 1,200 TEU tracks with a width of 43 metres and covers more than safeguarding his citizens’ living standards. “We’ve · Transhipment capacity: 48,000 loading units 600 metres of track. It is powered via a trailing cable done our homework,” he says. “Now it’s the others’ (1st expansion phase) system, with a cable drum on the side. Right at the turn. We hope that the next step that is taken is the top, along the crane bridge, the trolley with the hoist modernisation of the railway line between Munich- Connections moves, from which the gripper – also known as the East and Burghausen.” · 8 departures each week in each direction: “spreader” – hangs. The gripper weighs ten tonnes and Below, in the Burghausen combined transport ter- Burghausen – German seaports overnight must be moved with caution. minal, the departure signal sounds. The train sets off · Mon–Fri one departure each; 2 departures in the Markus Keller looks down from his glass cockpit. slowly on its journey north towards the German middle of the week and on Saturday He brings the crane into position, turning the driver’s seaports. mh · Plus departures on Mon, Wed, Fri from Burghausen cabin around while simultaneously driving forward. to Cologne with connection possible to Rotterdam/ Martin Kroll The individual crane orders are transmitted from the Contact| Berthold Jesse Antwerp (from autumn 2015) dispatch centre to his screen. On it, Markus Keller can Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-73000

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WELL-EQUIPPED lie containerflats, as they are known, on which precast concrete parts from a variety of construction com- The Darmstadt railport offers transhipment panies are dispatched to building sites in the region. from road to rail and vice versa for Whether it is sheet metal or paper, what the two types of freight have in common is that they react sensitively heavy freight. This makes it popular for to fluctuations in temperature and have to be handled many customers. with according care. While paper requires a constant storage temperature, so that it can later be fed smooth- ly into the production process at the printing plant, PLANNING: armstadt, at the heart of the Rhine-Main indus- the most important thing with sensitive sheet metal Employees move D trial region, is home to one of the great gateways is to prevent corrosion from water condensation. For metal sheets to the world of rail: the Darmstadt railport is a reliable this reason, part of the railport is heated and is always to the open-air hub providing access to the European freight transport kept at a temperature of 15–17 °C, even in winter. storage area at the Darmstadt network for companies that do not have a siding of railport. their own. “Our facility brings together the two worlds PEAK PERIODS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR of rail and road,” says Martin Hörnig, head of the Railports experience seasonal peaks. Towards the end Darmstadt railport. of the year, the halls are full of paper rolls: in a highly The facility is well-equipped for this role. All man- volatile market, printing plants build up their stocks ner of freight, delivered by lorry or rail to the two before the year-end. Meanwhile, sparkling wine and adjacent, 100-metre-long platforms, is piled high on other consumer goods are the big thing in the run-up a total of 10,000 square metres of storage area. Pallets to Easter and again from October, as the Christmas laden with Spanish sparkling wine wait to be reloaded. business period begins. “At that time, up to ten Enormous paper rolls reach up in piles several metres wagons carrying 30 pallets each are unloaded here in high. “The special design here enables us to stack par- a single day – it gets quite hectic,” says Alexander ticularly heavy freight. Our surfaces are intended to Weiss, a logistics planner at the railport. take a weight of 15 tonnes per square metre,” Hörnig Staff at the facility are also responsible for quality explains. This is why paper manufacturers favour the control: they open the wagons, check that the freight railport as an interim storage facility. Paper rolls are is intact and report any faults to the dispatchers, who stored here for one to two months on average before in turn inform the customers immediately. Last year, being sent out to the region’s printing plants. for example, one major paper customer had ordered The railport is also a major hub for the steel indus- cheaper transport operations by lorry. Five out of six try. Salzgitter Flachstahl delivers specially treated consignments had to be sent back, because they were metal sheets for the automotive industry to Darm- poorly secured and had been damaged as a result. stadt. They wait there to be collected for use on the The lorries and trains are processed by 16 employ- assembly line. Some of the freight goes to Wörth, and ees in Darmstadt, working in a two-shift operation. from there to the Mercedes-Benz car factories. Heavy With years of experience and plenty of expertise that plate from the steel manufacturer weighing several has become instinctive, they tranship a great variety tonnes is stacked up high in the huge outside storage of freight every day, stack extremely heavy paper rolls area, immediately next to the gantry crane. Beside this with utmost care into the state-of-the-art sliding-wall rail wagons, position sensitive metals to the exact centimetre – and, at the same time, handle the ex- LARGE CATCHMENT AREA haustive task of processing the freight documents. The Darmstadt railport is centrally located within The railport is also improving its own processes in the city limits and offers a direct connection to the this regard. “Since early 2015, we have had our own rail network and to the A5 and A67 motorways. distribution programme in operation, which passes The facility thus reaches a large catchment area in the flow management by the customer on to the ware- the immediate vicinity of the four German federal house staff. In this way, we have put an end to all the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Baden- old paperwork,” Weiss explains. In addition, the fac- Württemberg and Bavaria. ility has its own warehouse software, which now also The railport is particularly well-suited to the fol- offers an interface to both the customer and the reci- lowing types of freight: steel, containers, swap pient or sender. The railport’s additional services bodies, precast concrete parts, tiles, clinker bricks, complete the package: “From palletising, packing and granite/marble blocks, timber, glassware, roll, for- sorting all the way through to the customs warehouse, mat and tissue paper, and palletised goods. we really can do it all,” railport chief Martin Hörnig says in summary. an · Infrastructure: 4 sidings, 250 m of covered tracks · Gantry crane, clamp and forklift truck Contact: | Martin Hörnig · 2 warehouse buildings and 1 open-air storage area Telephone: +49 (0)6151 802-1230

· Total storage space: 11,900 square metres, [email protected] Martin Kroll Vorname Nachname; Bildagentur Vorname of which 5,600 square metres are heated Photos: Photos: Fotos:

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“ EXPECTATIONS ARE RAILPORTS – FACILITIES THAT OFFER

GETTING HIGHER!” ADDED VALUE FOR CUSTOMERS Hamburg Steel producers are under a lot of TRANSA Spedition GmbH specialises in full loads on road Berlin economic pressure and they and rail, and in designing multimodal transport need intelligent transport solutions, chains in Germany and Europe. TRANSA operates Nuremberg says Steffen Schreiterer, five railports in Germany. Regensburg Head of Customer Logistics at Mengen Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH.

What kind of logistical challenges do you face at Salzgitter Flachstahl? RAILPORT NUREMBERG RAILPORT HAMBURG We produce around 3.5 million tonnes of flat-rolled steel Over an area of 5,100 square metres, the Nur- With 35,000 square metres of storage space and around 22,000 pallet bays, each year – mainly coils and stacks of sheets. On top ­of emberg railport provides transhipment, storage the Hamburg railport is the largest of the TRANSA facilities in Germany. The that we produce a million tonnes of steel slabs. We de- and other value-added services to a large logistics centre has a covered siding. Because of its proximity to the seaport, it liver around a quarter of our products by road, two per number of customers from a range of sectors. is also an important transhipment facility for imports and exports and it offers cent by inland waterway vessels and the rest by rail. The facility currently tranships around 3,500– customers hassle-free customs processing. The storage spaces can be heated Most of what we produce is for the car manufacturing 4,000 tonnes each month, thereby moving an to a temperature of 16 °C. There are 45 loading gates available. The staff at the ­industry and its suppliers, cold-rollers and various plants immense volume of transported goods from the site are currently handling the distribution of promotional goods for a large in the Salzgitter AG group, for example the Salzgitter roads and onto the railways. Since Nuremberg discount retailer, sometimes accounting for more than 15 wagons a week. an Mannesmann Line Pipe company or our own steel ser- is an important centre for the paper industry, vice centres in Schwerte and Karlsruhe. the maximum load-bearing capacity of the floor Contact | Stephan Puvogel And DB Schenker Rail? surface in the railport is up to 20 tonnes per Telephone: +49 (0)40 3037439-25 How has logistics changed over the last few years? More than half of our rail transports are handled by DB PREMIUM square metre. Heavy freight such as steel and [email protected] We’ve seen two big changes. Expectations are now much Schenker Rail. We are especially dependent on rail for PRODUCT: paper rolls can easily be stored here. Moreover, higher both in terms of delivery times and reliability. Car single-wagon transport and we also use the railports. Coils awaiting the facility is sustainably designed, with geo- manufacturers especially are passing on the pressure to The consistent provision of empty wagons seven days a transportation. thermal heating and a photovoltaic system, re- The heavy their suppliers. 60 per cent of what we produce goes dir- week will be decisive for the further development of sulting in savings of around 200 tonnes of CO RAILPORT BERLIN/FERCH freight must 2 ectly or indirectly to that sector. The second change is our business with DB Schenker Rail. If we succeed in be handled with each year. an At 15,000 square metres, the Ferch railport by the A10 and the Ferch/Liene- that our customers are increasingly looking at the way providing competitive offers by rail, railports could extreme care. witz freight transport station has space for all kinds of freight. The Großbee- stock is stored in the logistics chain. For us that means take on an important function, especially for our East- Contact | Knuth Radbruch ren container terminal is located just 35 kilometres away. TRANSA manages stock is being shifted closer and closer to the manufac- ern European customers, many of whom no longer Telephone: +49 (911) 626639–10 the transport of containers and wagons to CIS countries from Großbeeren turer. Because the storage spaces at the production have sidings. [email protected] and via the Seddin marshalling yard, which is also nearby. plants are relatively small, we need correspondingly rob- Along with direct transhipment between road and rail, the logistics centre ust logistics solutions so that we can dependably supply What are the decisive issues for you? also provides commissioning, packaging, quality control and empties man- our client’s production processes. Customers are demanding better and better quality and agement services. Forklift trucks up to 3.5 tonnes, pallet trucks and clamp punctuality is extremely important! The Netzwerkbahn RAILPORT REGENSBURG trucks are in operation. an Where does rail come in as part of your overall logis- with its defined delivery times is a real quantum leap be- Like the Nuremberg facility, the Regensburg tics concept? cause transport plans, once issued, are actually adhered railport is one of the most important tranship- Contact | Renate Tesch We’ve increased production by almost half a million to. We also have to remember that our customers often ment sites for trade with South-Eastern Eur- Telephone: +49 (0)30 24319–130 tonnes over the last few years – and the vast majority order at short notice. So for us it’s not just about speed ope. The facility, which covers an area of 7,200 [email protected] of this additional volume is transported by rail. Trains but also reliability. And I also hope to see faster times re- square metres, has a siding and 80 loading depart seven days a week, while lorries only depart five sulting from products like DB SCHENKERsteel-solution. gates, including two gates for extra-wide days a week, and there are problems sometimes with HGVs. This allows the logistics centre to load the availability of lorries. The whole infrastructure of Is digitalisation an important issue for you? goods for KRONES AG, a company based in RAILPORT MENGEN the plant is designed with rail in mind. And then there’s We’ve made excellent progress here. We’re linked in with the nearby town of Neutraubling. The world- The bi-modal logistics centre in Mengen in Baden-Württemberg is a facility the environmental aspect. So we’re strategically a number of our customers so they can order online, leading manufacturer of filling and packaging of around 4,500 square metres, around 900 of which are covered. It is used strengthening our position in terms of rail transport. which then initiates a partly automated dispatch process. technology currently requires the tranship- primarily by the paper industry. Up to 20,000 tonnes of paper rolls is tran- But our customers are always expecting improvements Our whole loading process is also already largely con- ment of up to nine HGV loads to four wagons shipped here annually for a Scandinavian paper company. The paper is mainly in quality. We’re seeing improvements in the railways, trolled by IT. The degree of automation will continue to each day, which are then sent onwards to used as cardboard in the production of packaging for the pharmaceutical for example with the Netzwerkbahn. But it’s disastrous increase in future. Hamburg. Other services offered include cross and food industries. Other freight processed here includes steel sheets, when rail availability is in constant decline because the docking, commissioning, quality control and industrial goods, agricultural machines on pallets and other palletised goods. necessary infrastructure isn’t there. It’s also the case packaging. an This facility also offers other services in addition to transhipment. an for international transport operations – the quality of Contact | Steffen Schreiterer the railways is not always good enough. We always Telephone: +49 (0)5341 21-2614 Contact | Knuth Radbruch Contact | Peter Lochmüller ­deliver to Spain by sea and we’re increasingly using [email protected] & Ibendorf GmbH Salzmann Telephone: +49 (911) 626639–10 Telephone: +49 (0)7731 92630-11 ­lorries to France and Eastern Europe in the absence of [email protected] [email protected]

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MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: Berthold Jesse, Managing Director of DB Schenker BTT (left) and Bernd Toepfer, Head of Electro Steel at DB Schenker Rail. RAIL FOR EVERYONE! Combined transport is growing in importance. DB Schenker Rail is leading developments with new services that give customers who do not have sidings access to rail-based logistics.

ou do not need to be an expert on traffic to realise ­minor role, are increasingly turning to combined Y that the capacity of our road infrastructure is ­transport. A train service between Germany and Chi- being stretched. Flexibility, low costs and excellent na for the transportation of goods for the auto industry availability – these were once the trump cards of HGV, is currently being tested – it’s quicker than the seaways even over long distances. These days it is a different and much cheaper than air. “That is partly because story. Increasing numbers of freight forwarders, exports are growing strongly in the metals and coal manufacturers and retailers are turning to intermodal sector because steel traders are increasingly distribu- CUSTOMER-FOCUSED: transport chains, even those who do not have sidings ting their product internationally,” says Dr Jörg Hilker, Axel Marschall, Member of of their own. They know that intelligently planned Head of the Metals and Coal Division at DB Schenker the Management Board transport operations across transport modes are sus- Rail. “The other reason is that the advantage of contai- for Sales, DB Schenker Rail. tainable, cost-effective and convenient. Combined ners is playing an ever more important role.” transport (CT) exploits the advantages of individual DB Schenker Rail is also currently carrying out test modes of transport. The initial and final legs of the transport operations with special containers between journey are completed by road, and rail, which is un- Germany and the UK for the aluminium manufacturer beatable over long distances, is used for the main leg Novelis. “These kinds of solutions remove the barriers of the journey. that impede the conversion to CT for the future,” says FOCUS ON EUROPE: CT is growing in Europe at a rate of between three Bernd Toepfer, Head of Electro Steel at DB Schenker Dr Jörg Hilker, and four per cent annually. Increasing numbers of cus- Rail. INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS: Head of the Metals and tomers who do not have sidings are also establishing “Global supply is certainly a huge trend in CT,” adds Carolina Lasse, Metals and Coal Coal Division, combined transport chains to integrate road, rail and Carolina Lasse from the Metals and Coal Division at Division, DB Schenker Rail. DB Schenker Rail. sea. “We want to open up all the possibilities that com- DB Schenker Rail, which has developed a new product bined transport offers for our customers,” explains called DB SCHENKERsteel-solution. “Another trend Axel Marschall, Member of the Management Board in continental transport is the relocation of the pro- for Sales at DB Schenker Rail. duction sites of the automotive industry to Eastern It is mainly consumer goods, automotive parts and South-Eastern Europe.” Rail infrastructure is and products from the chemical industry that are relatively underdeveloped there and a number of car ­transported in containers. “Transhipment is a smooth manufacturing plants are not even connected to the process in the terminals and it’s gentle on the cargo,” rail network. “There is untapped potential here for explains Berthold Jesse, Managing Director of CT,” explains Lasse. advantage that the coke, which needs to have its char- One challenge still remains for DB Schenker Rail: ­KombiTerminal Burghausen and DB Schenker BTT New products are also being developed in the bulk acteristics graininess, does not crumble into fine dust the comparison with road transportation times. GmbH, a company that works in the chemical indus- materials sector and these are already being used in because reloading is no longer required. A total of 400 “Door-to-door transport operations require 14 hours try. The DB subsidiary already has extensive expe- practice. In August last year, DB Schenker Rail began of these “AgroTainer” containers are in use. by road,” says Toepfer. “We need 18 hours. But we rience in the intermodal transportation of sensitive transporting high-quality coke for the Czech freight “That is the systemic advantage of continental have equipment with a loading capacity of 50 tonnes hazardous goods and chemical products. However, ­DB forwarder Nyylo from the Czech Republic to Sweden transport,” says Bernd Toepfer. “If sea transport isn’t and more. That is a clear advantage that our customers Schenker Rail is continuously developing and offering – a total of 40 containers a month, or 42,000 tonnes a involved, we are outside the standardised system and can benefit from.” mh new cross-market CT solutions that can be utilised for year, for a steel foundry. The coke is transported in can use containers tailor-made for special transport

a greater range of loads. containers that were specially developed for the pur- Martin Kroll solutions.” The loads in the containers are well-pro- Contact | Dr Jörg Hilker Even sectors such as steel, where transport opera- pose by the Nyylcon company. Compared to conven- tected from environmental influences and possible Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61100

tions using containers have traditionally played a tional coke transport operations, they have the Photos: damage. [email protected]

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RAIL, ROAD, RIVER: ENNS CONTAINER TOP-CLASS RAIL SERVICES AT LONDON GATEWAY TERMINAL DB Schenker Rail UK is expanding its intermodal transport Since 1 April 2015, DB Mobility Logistics AG has services at the London Gateway deep-sea port. Trains now operate to been operating the Enns Container Terminal Trafford Park and Wakefield five times a week. (CTE) with the Austrian company Kaindl Invest. The facility, which is located on a site of 160,000 square metres near Linz, is currently undergoing a €17.2 million modernisation. Five new tracks, each 700 metres in length, two additional gan- try cranes and an expanded storage area are being added to the facility. The CTE offers tri- modal transhipping services between rail, road and inland waterway vessel. In April this year, the terminal handled 1,400 TEU per day, making Enns one of the biggest terminals in Austria. CTE is operated by DB Schenker and M. Kaindl Holzindustrie in cooperation with Ennshafen. The project was supported by funds from the Austrian government.

“ENORMOUS CAPACITY” The Enns Container Terminal (CTE) is currently undergoing substantial modernisation. We discuss the potential of this important hub link to South-Eastern Europe with CTE’s Managing Directors Otto Hawlicek (Kaindl Invest) and Michael Heinemann (DB Schenker Rail).

CTE is being extensively modernised. Why? context we’re also installing the latest IT-based crane con- ince March 2015, DB Schenker Rail UK has HIGH PUNCTUALITY THANKS TO POTENTIAL FOR Hawlicek: We have a great location in one of Austria’s most trol technology, which prevents the crane from entering S increased the number of weekly departures INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: important economic centres. Because the existing terminal into the profile of the train. at the new London Gateway terminal to five times DB Schenker Rail UK works closely with London Gate- London Gateway has the potential to had reached its limits and we still had an enormous area of per week. The UK’s biggest rail freight company way. The logistics expert operates train services for become the UK’s land available, we decided on modernisation and expansion. How do you assess the market opportunities for trans- now operates intermodal services from London British and international customers, connecting the most important port. port operations to Eastern Europe? Gateway to Trafford Park, Manchester, and to port with South Wales, the Midlands and Northwest How do you assess the market potential of CTE? Heinemann: We at DB Schenker Rail are expecting to see the Wakefield terminal in Yorkshire: services to England – with trains up to 700 metres long. Heinemann: In 2014, we saw growth of 18 per cent in the growth in transport operations to South-Eastern Europe Trafford Park run on Mondays, Wednesdays and DB Schenker Rail UK has also become the first rail transhipment figures. The figures for the first quarter of and Enns is an important location in that regard. The facil- Fridays, and to Wakefield on Tuesdays and Thurs- operator to integrate its order management system 2015 are similar. There are a lot of large companies here in ity has good connections for all three transport modes. days. directly with the port’s system, thus offering customers the area that are banking on combined transport. We are directly on the main rail route between Vienna and “We are pleased to be introducing these new access to more efficient, transparent and rapid inter- Bratislava and beyond to Eastern and South-Eastern services for the benefit of our current and fu- modal freight services across the country. The close Which destinations are particularly in demand from ­Europe. The A1 Westautobahn motorway is only three kilo- ture customers. Rail freight transport is a cost- integration of its systems with London Gateway has Enns? metres away and then there’s the Danube connection. efficient and environmentally friendly solution enabled DB Schenker Rail UK to achieve an impressive Heinemann: We’re strongly positioned for transport oper- in the supply chains of our customers – both “shore-to-door” punctuality of 99.7 per cent in container ations to the German seaports, to Hamburg and Bremer- What opportunities does the River Danube offer? nationally and internationally,” says Adrian transport operations from the port to the customer. haven. But we also see a lot of demand for transports to Hawlicek: The Danube is one of Europe’s most important COOPERATION: Fleming, Head of Intermodal at DB Schenker Looking ahead, DB Schenker Rail UK plans to in- the Dutch North Sea ports and Mediterranean ports. In waterways – it has huge potential and this is slowly being CTE Managing Rail UK. terlink the British and continental locations of DB future we will have a new train connection to the Dutch tapped. In the first three months of this year we saw as Directors The London Gateway terminal went into oper- Schenker even more effectively. “The times when we Otto Hawlicek ports and a direct connection to the Adriatic ports. much traffic as in the whole of last year. The first ship ar- ation in November 2013. With a planned cap- simply transported containers from A to B have long (top) and rived from Antwerp recently – although that journey from Michael Heinemann. acity of more than 3.5 million TEU, the terminal gone,” says Steve Pryce, Head of Marketing at DB What technical innovations have been implemented on Belgium takes much longer than it does by train. has the potential to become the UK’s most im- Schenker Rail UK. “Intermodal rail services stand to site? portant deep-sea port. At the same time, London be integrated into the value chain ever more closely Heinemann: We are implementing what is known as mo- Contact | Sabeth Bartmus Gateway is connected via state-of-the-art links to in future.” an mentum entry at the terminal. That means you no longer Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61631 the UK’s road and rail network – more than one need a shunting locomotive, the train can be driven dir- [email protected] Getty Images third of the freight is now transported by rail. DB Contact: | Adrian Fleming ectly into the terminal using the electric mainline locomo- Schenker Rail UK has been involved right from Telephone: +44 (0)1302 5760-18

tive. That saves time and money over the last mile. In this Interview: Mirko Heinemann Photos: the start. [email protected]

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STEEL GIANTS ON THE MOVE HUGE POTENTIAL The logistics partners DB Schenker Rail and H. Daugaard transport steel pipes DB Schenker Rail Polska’s terminals measuring 35 metres in length and weighing 39 tonnes from Germany’s Siegerland region play a decisive part in connections to Denmark. They will form the foundations of the new Wikinger offshore wind farm. between Central and Eastern Europe. This is illustrated by the transport of anthracite from Ukraine to Germany.

he steel pipes are manufactured by Erndtebrücker WIND POWER: the rail operator’s biggest carrying wagons. At the T Eisenwerk (EEW) in Siegerland, to the east of Viking is the same time, the transport route had to be planned pre- ­Cologne. They are mounted onto jackets, which serve name of the wind cisely, because the gigantic pipes will be passing under park that will as the foundation for the wind turbines. The material bridges and through tunnels and other bottlenecks. begin feeding for 41 of the 70 jackets comes from Erndtebrück. Over 350 megawatts “Together with our customer, we have developed a the next few months they will be transported from into the grid perfect solution that demonstrates our expertise in Siegerland to Kolding in Denmark. in 2016 – enough handling heavy and bulky freight,” says Martin Price The switch to renewables is pressing – and a huge to power almost expansion in wind power, especially on the high seas, two million homes. is planned so that power from traditional coal-fired power stations is replaced with energy from sustaina- ble sources. Out in the Baltic Sea, roughly midway between the Danish island of Bornholm and the Ger- man island of Rügen, the Wikinger offshore wind farm, which covers an area of about 35 square kilometres is currently under construction. As early as 2016, it is planned that 75 wind turbines will supply around 350 megawatts to the grid – enough for almost two million households. The turbines will be erected in waters between 25 and 45 metres deep and have to be firmly anchored there using four-legged jacket structures. DB Schenker Rail has been commissioned by the H. Daugaard logistics company from Kolding and will be contributing to the success of the project. The two companies are working together to develop a sophi- sticated, meticulously planned rail-based transport of DB Schenker Rail Danmark. “You really get the B Schenker Rail Spedkol’s anthracite transport actual terminal site, which means that processing and LOADING: concept, with the final leg of the journey undertaken impression that the DB Schenker Rail specialists ma- D operations cross two frontiers on their journey onward transport can take place under one roof. It is The coal has to be by road. ke the impossible possible,” says Palle Mogensen. “We from Ukraine to Germany. These operations for the not only standard-gauge trains that can set off from reloaded on its way from the Ukraine DB Schenker Rail is transporting the 35-metre-long, have a very constructive collaboration, with transport Berlin coal merchant HMS Bergbau have been running here for destinations throughout Central Europe: the to Germany. 39-tonne steel pipes from Siegerland to Denmark. The operations on both road and rail being managed very reliably since May 2014 – despite the logistics operator terminal can also be used by lorries. It offers them biggest challenge is transporting the 164 steel pipes precisely, guaranteeing a smooth transport process having to overcome a number of obstacles along the direct access to the 94, S1 and A4 motorways. for the foundations. A special solution had to be de- from EEW.” DB Schenker Rail’s loading advisers, in way – in close cooperation with its parent company, veloped because the steel pipes are oversized even for collaboration with the customer, developed a concept DB Schenker Rail Polska. TRANSHIPMENT FOR BULK FREIGHT AND for transporting the pipes safely from the Erndtebrück The particular challenge is this: because the trains LIQUID PRODUCTS SOUND siding to the terminal at Kolding in Denmark. come to Poland on broad gauge, the anthracite has to Sławków is suitable not only for bulk freight but also JUDGEMENT: The transport operations began in June this year. be reloaded onto wagons with the Central European for the transhipment of liquid chemical products: nine The steel pipes The last of the 164 steel pipes is expected to arrive in standard gauge in order to continue its journey to pumping stations, including five mobile pumps, can are 35 metres Kolding in February 2016. Germany. Depending on the route, this reloading hap- tranship 60 to 100 tonnes of freight per hour if it does long and weigh 39 tonnes. In September 2015, H. Daugaard is celebrating its pens in one of two places: if the trains use the connec- not need to be heated. For products that need to be 100th anniversary. The freight forwarder, which has tion passing through Belarusian territory, they are heated, it is possible to tranship 100 tonnes per day. a long history steeped in tradition, will continue to transhipped in the terminal at Małaszewicze near DB Schenker Rail Spedkol undertakes additional work closely with DB Schenker Rail in future. “We’re Brest on the frontier between Belarus and Poland. If services for the anthracite transport operations for looking forward to developing more logistics projects they cross the Ukrainian–Polish border at Izov/Hru- HMS Bergbau. In the terminals, the anthracite is crush- with our partner DB Schenker Rail. The expertise of bieszów, however, the trains can carry on initially as ed, sorted and put into temporary storage. This is fol- the two companies complements each other perfectly far as Silesia. lowed by a thorough quality check, before the and means we can provide optimised customer-orien- There, they arrive at the Sławków terminal of DB material is reloaded onto standard-gauge wagons and ted solutions,” says Palle Mogensen. mh Schenker Rail Spedkol. The broad-gauge railway line sent on its way to Germany. mh coming from Ukraine does not end until it reaches Contact | Martin S. Price Fotowidzenie.pl AREVA, here. This makes the Sławków terminal a major tran- Contact | Sebastian Skrzypek Telephone: +45 (0)88 3009-32 shipment base for rail transport operations between Telephone: +48 (0)32 2609-984

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MORE RAIL FOR SAXONY MAXIMUM TRANSPARENCY New railport at Chemnitz. The new Container Management System at Poland’s DB Port Szczecin speeds up not only transhipment but also customs formalities. he railport in Chemnitz, which opened in March T 2015, allows roads to be connected to the Europe- an rail network. The freight transport station in Chem- nitz, with an area of around 30,000 square metres, was put into service in spring by Bauer Spedition GmbH. The railport is operated by DB Schenker Rail AG. “The Chemnitz railport lays the foundations for a revival of rail freight transport in the region,” comments Tino Bauer. “It enables us to offer the perfect solution to our customers who focus on multimodal transport over long distances.” For a long time, the Chemnitz region was an impor- tant hub for machine construction and tool building. Even today, there are still many small and medium- GATEWAY TO sized enterprises that produce goods for the domestic THE SEA: market and beyond and require international logisti- Szczecin is the cs solutions. The railport offers them 450 metres of closest seaport track and an internal siding, as well as a heated depot for a number of industrial measuring 2,800 square metres and a 30-tonne crane centres at the track in the depot for transhipment and onward travel heart of Europe. to the nearby Czech Republic. an

Contact | Astrid Dieckow Telephone: +49 (0)345 215-8020 WOOD BRANCHES OUT [email protected] anfred Michel is especially proud of this com- only to the German capital but also to Dresden, Prague, Bullinger is back on the network. M mendation: the Chairman of the Board of DB Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and other large Central Port Szczecin received an award from the Polish cus- European cities. With its modern infrastructure, toms authority in February. The body acknowledged quays extending for a length of three kilometres, the he opening of a new freight transport station has SUSTAINABLE the port operator’s excellent cooperation and active container terminal, ten warehouses and 40 cranes, DB T been welcomed by DB Schenker Rail and its PRODUCTS: involvement in the development of the innovative Port Szczecin is perfectly capable of standing up to ­customer, wood company Bullinger, which saw the A Bullinger employee loads IT-controlled Container Management System (CMS). regional rivals such as the ports of Rostock, Gdynia arrival of the first 34 wagons of timber in Werder bei timber from Now, not only can port employees follow all container and Gdansk. Neuruppin at the start of June. a wagon on the movements online and in real time, but customs offi- The port has been in the black since 2014. With a A SUBSIDISED With the reopening of the connection, Bullinger newly opened cials, too, have direct access to the system. The CMS freight volume of around 1.5 million tonnes, the oper- CONNECTION can now use sustainable rail-based logistics for wood siding. also allows clients to check the status of their contain- ation has achieved a turnover of some €11 million. The deliveries. The company is one of Brandenburg’s lar- ers in real time. The authorities responsible for import goods that pass through DB Port Szczecin include Rail freight transport is politically desirable – gest manufacturers of glue laminated and structural and export decide whether or not a container is allow- mainly containers and general freight from the paper, ­and occasionally funded, for example by wood and delivers to construction companies and ed to leave the terminal. steel, automotive and building materials industries, ­means of the Gleisanschlussförderrichtlinie retailers all over the world. “Our cooperation with the customs authority works as well as granite and frozen fish. The site is capable (railway siding funding regulation). The fe- In the future, up to twelve freight wagons per week smoothly,” says Manfred Michel of DB Port Szczecin. of transhipping more than 100,000 standard contain- deral government uses this as a basis to sup- are set to arrive in Werder every Tuesday and Thurs- “It is impressive to see the high priority that Polish ers (TEU) per year. port companies that build new railway day. The wood currently comes from the Czech Repu- customs officials attach to customers’ needs. The cus- One additional service that DB Port Szczecin offers sidings or expand or reactivate existing blic and Austria although further materials from toms department’s active support in improving ad- in collaboration with the customs authorities is the ones. According to the German Federal Rail- Sweden and Germany may also be added. The rail ministrative management processes enables us to “one-stop shop”. The relevant supervisory bodies meet way Authority, this should make it possible freight operator expects the siding to be used by reduce transhipment times significantly and thus to up in one place to complete the customs formalities to move more freight traffic from the roads around 500 wagons a year. Axel Winkelmann, Head cut costs.” together. The location and time of the checks are laid to the environmentally friendly railways. of Regional Sales in Berlin, praised the work of all The introduction of the modern CMS marks a fur- down in the terminal’s regulations, and a representa- Funding can be requested from the authori- those involved: “The employees from the production ther stage in the development of the port, in which tive of the port operator is always invited to every ty in the form of a non-repayable grant of up centre in Berlin and the Seddin site provided great DB Schenker Rail Polska holds 96 per cent of the inspection. This solution again contributes to redu- 50 per cent of the costs eligible for funding. support during the preparation and implementation shares. The operator is investing €22.2 million up to cing the time taken by customs formalities – and thus The grant is subject to the company trans- of the new transport facilities and we would like to the end of 2015, including €15.5 million in the new to cutting costs. mh porting more freight by rail. express our utmost gratitude to them!” an container transhipment facilities alone.

Prospects for the port, which was once the most Contact | Monika Żaboklicka DAVIDS For further information, please visit Contact | Axel Winkelmann important Baltic Sea port for Berlin, just 150 km away, Telephone: +48 (0)91 43086-74 www.eba.bund.de Telephone: +49 (0)30 29757-510

are good. Szczecin is the closest deep-water port not [email protected] Photos: [email protected]

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HOTBED OF INNOVATION The second innovations workshop for DB Schenker Rail customers in the metals and coal industry was held at the DB maintenance plant in Paderborn. A highly productive day of exchanging ideas about future collaborations and the new challenges being faced in the metals and coal sector.

B Schenker’s Freight Wagons Innovations Work- D shop was held at the Paderborn maintenance plant on 24 March. At the invitation of Dr Jörg Hilker, Head of the Metals and Coal Division at DB Schenker ANIMATED DISCUSSION: Rail, around 50 of DB Schenker’s customers and guests Customers and from the metals and coal industry gathered to discuss employees of DB Schenker how manufacturing and logistics can work together. Rail enjoyed exchanging ideas and engaging in After the first workshop, which was held in spring conversations. 2014, this meeting in March 2015 was also an oppor- tunity to review how the optimisation measures dis- cussed the previous year have been implemented. The workshop consisted of a series of presentations with panel discussions, and inspections of special freight wagons and a prototype of an extensively modernised In his welcome speech, Dr Hilker referred to fun- Rail, took stock of the improvements already imple- wagons, to be put into operation in 2018 as multifunc- Shimmns wagon in the workshop of the Paderborn damental difficulties that make the need for change mented. He pointed to three important ways DB has tional wagons. This will help balance out fluctuations plant. clear. increased the availability of wagons. in demand and make it possible to directly reload The market situation at the time of the workshop The availability of the wagons needed by customers The first is “asset intelligence”: in 2015, 500 freight trains in the steel plants. was difficult. High global production capacity con- must be improved through close coordination with wagons are being upgraded by installing sensors. The third new development is “whisper brakes”. tinues to put German steel companies under enor- ­the dispatching plants. That means that all logistical These make it possible to monitor the climatic condi- Thomas Jäger talked about the modifications to DB mous market pressure. The expectations of customers planning and implementation is coordinated and exe- tions of the wagons during delivery operations and Schenker Rail freight wagons, a process that has al- regarding material and delivery are increasing. cuted in real time. It follows that the supply control to their logistical availability will be correspondingly ready started and that will continue until 2020. This “The automotive industry is the quality leader in storage depots must also be improved. Planning and optimised. Moreover, it will be possible to track involves huge costs but the considerable reduction in the metals and coal industry,” said Dr Hilker at the specific day-to-day processes must be carried out faster, wagons on screen via GPS signal in real time. Continu- noise is helping to boost the acceptance of rail freight beginning of the conference. What does that mean for at shorter notice and more reliably. This includes iden- ous tracking and tracing fulfils customers’ need for transport and improves the image of DB Schenker Rail. a service provider such as DB Schenker Rail? “If we tifying and rectifying bottlenecks at receiving points information about deployed wagons with regard to In the subsequent practical session, workshop par- satisfy the requirements of the automotive industry, and an improved supply of empty wagons. geographic and scheduling issues. ticipants had the opportunity to learn more about the then the demands of other industries will automatic- “The requirement planning of freight wagons must The second new development is the “BraCoil” comprehensive optimisation measures being under- ally be met.” For this reason, the workshop in Pader- be adjusted on a rolling basis over the course of the wagon, which can transport slabs and coils without taken on the Shi fleet at the plant. The prototypes on born was mainly focused on the topic of freight wagons. year,” said Dr Hilker. This mainly involves a short- the need for any adjustments or adaptations. Up to display could be examined and the modernisation “The freight wagon of the future must meet all the term strategy that calculates for near-term periods. two prototypes will be acquired in 2016 and extensive measures assessed. These include additional un- requirements of the automotive industry,” said Dr “When planning wagon supply, empty wagons are just test operations will subsequently be carried out; work locking handles for the protective covers, a new two-

Hilker. This means that sophisticated sensors and the as important as loaded ones.” Michael Neuhaus is also being undertaken on the series production of part moisture barrier to prevent drifting snow from protection of the cargo would be priorities in new In his presentation, Thomas Jäger, Head of Asset 98 further wagons. The plan is for these wagons, which entering, thinner protective covers, and an anti-con-

wagons. Management & Technology Wagons at DB Schenker Photos: are based on Samms 489 and Sahmms 711 type densation liner in the interior.

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INNOVATIONS: Workshop participants had the opportunity to learn more about the optimisation potential of Shi wagons during a tour of the plant.

RELEVANT ISSUES: The availability of wagons and supply control were the focus of discussions.

Following that, Bert Kloppert, Head of Rail Freight Purchasing at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG and Chairman of the Steel Trade Association’s Working Group on Wagon Construction Technology, looked at what the future has in store for his sector and was cau- tiously optimistic. While around 40 million tonnes of crude steel was produced in Germany in 2010, the Steel Trade Association expects that figure to have risen to 43 million tonnes in 2014. At the same time, Kloppert noted that there was concern about the de- crease in the stock of freight wagons. Stephan Strobel, Head of Resource Management for the Metals and Coal Division at DB Schenker Rail, and his team then presented the “tarpaulin plasters” used to quickly fix acute damage to wagon tarpaulin covers. They showed three types of various sizes, each of which can be used to repair small tears and holes of NEED FOR up to ten centimetres – just as quickly and easily as INFORMATION: repairing a bicycle tyre. DB Schenker Rail uses To close, the Austrian company Innofreight gave new technology to ensure that wagons are a presentation about the “Freight Wagons of the Fu- traceable, thereby ture”. Promising patents and potential solutions sug- improving availability. gest that freight transport has interesting prospects for the future. From weight-optimised container- carrying wagons to innovative unloading technolo- gies – it is clear that the Freight Wagon Innovations

Michael Neuhaus Workshop offers an excellent communication plat- form on which DB Schenker Rail and its customers

Photos: Photos: can prepare for the future together. PhvS

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AN INDUSTRY PRACTISES FOR AN EMERGENCY Number one topic: safety! DB Schenker BTT and DB Schenker Rail Nederland host Rail Safety Days.

afety always takes top priority at DB Schenker Rail PRACTICAL S and this applies all the more to transports for the DEMONSTRATION: chemicals industry. If, despite all due precautions, an Fast and courageous intervention calls for incident were to occur, everyone involved would have experience. At the to respond quickly and correctly to keep the impact Rail Safety Days, the on humans and the environment to a minimum. By emergency services organising regular Rail Safety Days, DB Schenker Rail at the Chemelot site and DB Schenker BTT wish to make a proactive con- showed what they tribution to the topic of transport safety. were capable of. “Rail has demonstrably and objectively proved to be the safest transport mode. Nevertheless, it is not sufficient simply to quote this fact and present certi- fication from the regulatory authority,” says Erik Kon- ing, Sales Operation Manager at DB Schenker BTT and Rail Safety Days Project Manager. “When dangerous goods are transported, the environment and the people who live in the regions concerned are of central im- portance. The Rail Safety Days are intended to protect humans and the environment and are consequently addressed at all stakeholders: the relevant authorities, the emergency services, customers, infrastructure managers, forwarders and wagon keepers.”

IDEAL OPPORTUNITY FOR NETWORKING At the first international event in spring 2015, which was held on the Chemelot chemical industrial complex in the Dutch city of Geleen, DB Schenker Rail staff had the chance to meet representatives from the chemicals industry, the safety sectors, members of the emer- gency services, infrastructure managers and employ- SAFETY ON RAIL: ees from the relevant authorities. The event provided Safety plays an a communication platform with excellent opportuni- enormously import- ant role at DB ties for networking and exchanging ideas and experi- Schenker Rail. The ences. “The number of people who put their names Rail Safety Days will down for the event is ample proof of the demand for be held at regular functions like this,” says Koning. intervals with the ­ The Rail Safety Days, which took place from 30 aim of promoting March to 1 April, comprised a three-day programme effective interaction of training and exercises and a separate conference. between everyone involved in the During the practical section, the attendees learned transport of dan- about the cooperation between Chemelot’s works fire gerous goods. brigade Sitech and the ProRail incident management division. Sitech also deals with emergencies outside the company premises, for instance in case of large- scale incidents. By law, the ProRail incident manage- ment division is responsible for disaster protection and for clearing the transport routes after any inci-

SPUISERS fotografie dent. The infrastructure manager has special equip- ment which can be used to lift rail wagons off the rails

Photos: Photos: in such cases.

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This special equipment, the DB Schenker Rail Ne- HANDS-ON DB SCHENKERoil-solution: derland demonstration tank wagon and the DB Netze EXPERIENCE: practice train were all ready and waiting on the Che- the German practice FLEXIBILITY AND RELIABILITY train includes a melot site. The German train consists of a freight classroom, which wagon, which has been converted into a classroom and was the venue for DB Schenker Rail’s Chemicals industry sector is a practice tank wagon filled with water. This gives the part of the practical redesigning its existing product for the mineral oil industry. trainees a glimpse behind the scenes of modern chem- sections of the icals logistics as soon as they enter the classroom. Rail Safety Days. Our customers can already benefit from DB SCHENKERoil-solution, says Dr Carsten Hinne, Senior EVENT COVERED THE ENTIRE SUPPLY CHAIN Vice-President European Industry Sector Chemicals, During the practical section, forwarding agents, rep- Mineral Oil and Fertilizers/CEO DB Schenker BTT GmbH. resentatives from the chemicals industry and emer- gency workers could attend various lectures and training sessions on different topics. This was also which account for a share of 21 per cent of global chem- where the practice tank wagon came into its own: it icals production and employ a workforce which totals Dr Hinne, DB Schenker Rail has refined its can simulate nine different types of leaks caused by more than 1.2 million people. industryspecific product DB SCHENKERoil-solution damage to the tank. “The attendees were an attentive Álvaro Torres Centellas of OCI Nitrogen emphasised in collaboration with DB Schenker BTT. Why? audience and the interaction was perfect,” Ben Engel- the importance of rail freight for his company, which Through our industry-specific product, we have been bert of SABIC reported enthusiastically after the ses- produces fertilizers and melamine. Rail is the main offering the whole mineral oil industry a tailored ser- sion. “The demonstration was highly interesting.” transport modality for OCI’s intermediate product am- vice for the past 15 years. For next year, we are now The programme also included other aspects, such monia, which is able to serve in the safest manner OCI’s planning a relaunch, so that we can make an even bet- as how to avoid drip leaks, the documentation which customers from the terminal in Rotterdam and the pro- ter job of meeting the industry’s specific needs and has to accompany transports and the correct pro- duction unbalances from the site in Geleen. Safety is a become even more attractive to customers. In our cedures in case of incidents. All in all, the organisers responsibility of all the players of the chain and there- dialogue with customers, we have encountered a were thus able to provide a comprehensive picture of fore: “Safety is a team sport,” said Torres Centellas. number of suggestions for improvements. We have the entire chemicals supply chain. Henk Bril gave a presentation about how the taken this very valuable feedback on board and used ­ SABIC chemicals group approaches the question of it to redesign the product. Do you have examples of this? MARKET “SAFETY IS A TEAM SPORT” safety in Geleen. SABIC has implemented a whole We are placing emphasis on professional customer ser- OVERVIEW: Parallel to the practical section, a conference was held number of organisational measures which would en- What is the nature of the mineral oil industry’s specific vice: there will be specific, named points of contact to Dr Carsten Hinne, Senior Vice on the Chemelot campus on the third day, featuring able it to take immediate action in case of an emer- logistics requirements? deal expertly with customers’ needs. Customers will re- President European contributions from all stakeholders on the subject of gency. Bril pointed out that chemicals transports The main requirements are reliability and flexibility. ceive status information on their transport consign- Industry Sector safety on rail. Both Dr Carsten Hinne, CEO DB actually involve two different chains: firstly, the trans- ­Min-eral oil producers or dealers usually transport their ments, and, in the event of delays, our customer service Chemicals, Mineral Schenker BTT GmbH/Senior Vice President Industry port between plant and customer, and secondly, the products in block trains from refineries to fuel depots team will work swiftly to find a solution to the problem. Oil and Fertilizers/ Sector Chemicals and Aart Klompe, CEO DB Schenker rail infrastructure, over which SABIC or Chemelot and airports. However, the volumes transported bet- Moreover, the industry-specific product will now include CEO DB Schenker Rail Nederland, gave the inaugural lectures. “The have no control. “A chain is only as strong as the ween the refinery and the fuel depot fluctuate, because a range of services relating to all aspects of a transport BTT GmbH. target here today is to create trust and transparency,” weakest link,” he stressed, and called for better com- customer demand at the pumps is constantly changing. operation. For example, it will be possible to handle cus- said Dr Carsten Hinne. munications, state-of-the-art technology for wagons This means that we as a transport service provider have toms clearance for consignments going to non-EU mem- Luc van de Velde of Ineos Olefins & Polymers Eur- and track, as well as the clear allocation of responsi- to be very flexible, because short-notice train bookings, ber countries or to supply suitable tank wagons or ope then presented the position of the chemicals in- bilities. amendments or cancellations are a fact of life. On the provide an integrated damaged-wagon management dustry. In his capacity as Chairman of Railway Affairs Finally, John Voppen of ProRail presented the pro- other hand, our transport operations have to be very service. We can also organise plant logistics and shunt- at the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), grammes implemented by the infrastructure man- ­reliable and punctual, so as not to disrupt production ing activities at customers’ premises as required. he appealed for more cooperation. “We deliver good agers in the Dutch rail network to raise safety at processes at the refineries or to endanger supplies to achievements on many levels, but we have to cooper- marshalling yards and in the transport of dangerous the depots. From when will the new industry-specific product be ate to reach our common goal,” van de Velde said. He goods. He also underlined the high priority that Pro- available? pointed out, for example, that every second derail- Rail gave to safety in the construction of the Betuwe What distinguishes the new DBSCHENKERoil-solution Our new product will be introduced officially with effect ment could actually be prevented if the infrastructure freight line. The audience made good use of the fol- from the previous product? from 1 January 2016. However, our customers already managers and the railways were to implement a better lowing discussions to ask many questions and contrib- Up to now, DB SCHENKERoil-solution has been a have the opportunity to learn how the revised DB safety management system. The CEFIC is based in ute their own experiences. supplementary product among our block train services SCHENKERoil-solution will benefit their future transport Brussels and represents 27,000 chemicals companies “We want the Rail Safety Days to continue to pro- and confined to a few routes in Germany. At the same operations. Over the coming weeks, our sales depart- mote cooperation between all the different parties time, we have been able to bundle various customers’ ment will work actively to inform customers about the involved,” said Dr Carsten Hinne in his closing re- block train volumes together to form stable and new service and will be available for advice. marks. “We believe it is extremely important to con- reliable transport operations with a high level of flexi- vince our customers that safety is something we take bility. This basic principle will continue to apply in Contact | Gabriele Jansen-Krekels seriously.” an the future. Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-73112 DB SCHENKERoil-solution will in future be available to [email protected] Contact | Erik Koning major customers in the mineral oil industry as a tailored Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-73111 service, which will bring together all the benefits of the [email protected] three block train products, DBSCHENKERplan-, vario- Contact | Sven Budde and flextrain. What is new is that this service will now Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-62493 [email protected] Contact | Jelle Rebbers Vukovic Vanja SPUISERS fotografie, also be geared to the whole of Europe. In addition, ­ Telephone: +31 (0)930 235-8347 we will be expanding our range of associated services

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LINKING THE NORTH SEA AND THE ALPS FASTER LINK TO THE PORT The Netherlands DB Schenker Rail is committed to European single-wagon transport. OF ANTWERP With the DB SCHENKERswiss-shuttle service, the rail freight operator DB Schenker Rail is expanding its cross- strengthens the link between Switzerland and Germany. border single-wagon transport service. Amsterdam The DB SCHENKERantwerp-shuttle connects Rotterdam AS SEEN the Belgian port of Antwerp even more ON RAILWAYS closely with other European industrial regions. Vlissingen NEWS! www.dbschenker.com/ Seebrügge he port of Antwerp is an important chemical site newsletter-en Antwerp and Europe’s second-largest port after Rotterdam T Ghent Germany by cargo volume in tonnes. With the DB SCHENKER- antwerp-shuttle, DB Schenker Rail presents a new Belgium transport operations service between Antwerp and the European hinterland. “The DB SCHENKERant- werp-shuttle is a response to our customers’ require- ments,” says Uwe Mendritzki, Sales & Operations Manager Belgium at DB Schenker BTT. With the DB Important stations SCHENKERantwerp-shuttle, a reliable, flexible and Distribution points transparent hinterland connection for wagonload and intermodal transport is now available to customers service will be responsible for all other customer DB SCHENKERant- from all market sectors. To this end, the company has issues. “Because we offer everything from a single werp-shuttle: ingle-wagon transport is often regarded as the poor selected German regions with Switzerland and offers raised the number of departures for existing trains source and keep the number of interfaces down, we The hinterland connection relation of a number of European rail operators. customers a quality new product for single wagons and greatly increased the operating points. There is can guarantee continuous and transparent monitoring S for wagonload It’s said to be expensive and complicated, and a and wagon groups. one shuttle connection each morning and evening of transport operations,” says Mendritzki. “As a result, and intermodal number of rail companies are withdrawing from the This service clearly offers customers added value. between Antwerp and the Dutch rail hub of Kijfhoek we can proactively inform our customers about where transport. complex business. Not so DB Schenker Rail. The “A high degree of transparency, reasonable prices and and from there with the European DB Schenker Rail the wagons are.” The possibility of connecting the European rail freight operator has been strongly com- faster transit times are the advantages offered by the network. The shuttle already serves numerous ter- system to DB SCHENKERrailnet France is currently mitted to European single-wagon transport for many DB SCHENKERswiss-shuttle,” explains Daniel Knaus, minals at the port of Antwerp. Further regions in being explored. an DB SCHENKERswiss- years. With comprehensive and flexible solutions in Head of Regional Sales Switzerland at DB Schenker Belgium are soon to be added as operating points. shuttle: the national and European networks, the company is Rail. “This service combines high quality standards The DB SCHENKERantwerp-shuttle between Ant- Single-wagon Contact | Uwe Mendritzki transport between continuously expanding in the field of international with the single-wagon networks of the departure and werp and Kijfhoek will be operated by DB Schenker Telephone: +49 (0)211 3680-2235 AS SEEN Germany single-wagon transport. A new product has now been destination regions.” Rail Nederland. DB Schenker Rail’s central customer [email protected] ON RAILWAYS and Switzerland. introduced: the DB SCHENKERswiss-shuttle connects The new service is aimed at customers from all mar- ket sectors who want to have palletised goods flexibly NEWS! Multimodal and reliably transported between Switzerland and www.dbschenker.com/ logistics centres Germany. Transport operations are centrally super- newsletter-en Hamburg vised and continuously monitored by a team in the customer service centre in Duisburg. DB Schenker THREE QUESTIONS FOR ... Rail and its partner SBB Cargo guarantee binding transport services within 48 hours and a binding stand- Jelle Rebbers, DB Schenker Rail Nederland ard delivery time on the selected routes. The DB SCHENKERswiss-shuttle will initially Gelsenkirchen Germany connect the German North Sea ports, the Ruhr re- What advantages does DB SCHENKERantwerp-shuttle At which customers is the shuttle aimed? gion and the Rhine-Main region with Switzerland. offer customers? To begin with, the shuttle was aimed at the chemical indus- Because easy access to the rail network – for all cus- Together, the Belgian, Dutch and German chemical in- try but the new transport operations are now open to all tomers including those without their own sidings – dustries form what’s known as the ARRRA cluster, a sectors, whether they require conventional wagonload or Darmstadt Czech Republic is the most important issue for successful geographical cluster between Antwerp, Rotterdam and intermodal transport. Because DB Schenker Rail offers single-wagon transport, DB SCHENKERswiss-shut- the Rhine and Ruhr regions that accounts for 40 per these transport operations as a door-to-door service, we tle is starting in the multimodal logistics centres in cent of all chemical manufacturing in Europe. This clus- can respond flexibly to the requirements of our customers Hamburg, Gelsenkirchen and Darmstadt. However, ter is expected to grow in importance – and so will its and make a significant contribution to a secure supply these facilities not only connect road and rail, they transport requirements. With the DB SCHENKERant- chain. France also make possible a range of other value-added lo- werp-shuttle, we offer reliable and seamless rail ser- gistics services. an vices from one source, connecting the various plants in Why are short transit times so important? Austria the ARRRA cluster. Moreover, through the DB SCHEN- From the perspective of the total cost of ownership, shorter Contact | Daniel Knaus SBB CARGO KERantwerp-shuttle, industry in Antwerp is gaining transit times are, of course, always important. With the new Telephone: +49 (0)7621 5831-261 ­direct access to the European network of DB Schenker shuttle we are cutting transit times by 24 hours in each direc-

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A HEAVY LOAD ON THE TEL as the operator is assuming the financial capacity in the peak Christmas season – with exact timetables EXTENSIVE utilisation risk – are currently being linked with Euro- in both directions. Within the networks, TEL drives NETWORK: NEW SILK ROAD pean and Asian networks within transport corridors the wagons from China to the Russian and Kazakh- TEL is a joint venture by DB AG and the to form a new network in which block trains and stani border, bundles it anew and continues the jour- With regular train connections Russian company single-wagon transports are now running on sched- ney to Europe. TEL serves the Central and Western RZD. The company between China and Europe, Trans-Eurasia ule with great regularity. DB Schenker Rail provides European rail network through Belarus and Poland has established a Logistics GmbH offers customers the traction in Central and Western Europe. Via its part- via two hubs in Duisburg and Hamburg. large network across ners, TEL links the existing connections to Europe’s TEL has succeeded in doing what the experts Europe and Asia. perfect complement to sea and air freight. most important business centres with the trans-Eur- thought was almost impossible: achieving compatibil- asian network. “In Europe, we link a network with ity between trains in the east and west. Through the over 30 selected destinations from Scandinavia to intelligent linking of the networks, the number of rans-Eurasia Logistics GmbH (TEL) is continu- Italy, Spain and France. And in China, 24 cities are wagons that have to travel back empty over thousands T ously expanding its train connections between currently linked via partners to our network – reach- of miles is kept to a minimum. Moreover, the differ- Europe and China. “With these trains we are not pos- ing all the way to Japan,” explains Hempel. The trains ence in train lengths in China, Russia and Europe has itioning ourselves as competition to sea freight, we see travel on two routes: in the north on the traditional no effect. Perfectly synchronised systems handle the ourselves as a practical alternative to air transport,” trans-Siberian line between Małaszewicze/Brest and transitions and no container has to wait at the border says Andre Hempel, Managing Director of TEL. “The Zabaykalsk/Manzhouli; in the south through Kazakh- because the trains are shorter in Europe than they are service we offer is very attractive to customers who stan via Dostyk/Alashankou. The South Route, in Russia. “We can talk of compatible transport oper- require the swift transportation of high-value goods.” known as the New Silk Road, is gaining in political ations – no one else can claim that on this route!” says These days, suppliers to the automotive and electronics and economic importance because China is keen to Hempel. industries are especially interested in transporting provide a boost to domestic Chinese regions through TEL intends to expand its existing transport oper- high-value products quickly and cheaply. The train this infrastructure expansion. ations – not only because China is making a huge takes less than half of the six-week transit time of ship investment in infrastructure but also because the transport, and rail freight transport via this intercon- GOODS WORTH US$8 BILLION market is growing. More and more Chinese regions tinental connection is much cheaper than by air. Since 2008, TEL has gone from being a pioneer to a and cities are making enquiries with TEL about esta- The TEL company – a joint venture by Deutsche successful operator. The 4,000 TEU containers that blishing new markets and more efficient supply Bahn AG and the Russian company RZD based in Ber- travelled by rail between China and Europe in 2012 chains by rail. an lin, Moscow and Shijiazhuang – has been a pioneer in have now grown to 28,000 TEU containers today. “We the development of this market since 2008. Block transported US$8 billion worth of goods in 2014,” Contact | Nicolai Noeckler train services between the hubs of Duisburg and Ham- says Hempel. Rather than two or three trains per week, Telephone:+49 (0)30 297-54805 burg and the Polish–Belarusian border – for which up to five trains now depart weekly – and even more [email protected]

INTERCONTINENTAL: Both routes through NETWORKS BETWEEN Russia connect the Andre Hempel, Managing Director of networks in Asia and CONTINENTS Trans-Eurasia Logistics (TEL). Europe.

Mr Hempel, what is special about TEL and the trains to You often transport high-value goods, thereby reducing China? your customers’ capital commitment costs. How do you SUCCESSFUL PIONEER We connect Europe and Asia via the transport corri- ensure the security of goods? September 2008: dors in Russia and Kazakhstan. With our partners – The security of the transported goods is very important to Hamburg Zabaykalsk First TEL test train from China to Europe on the North Route mainly combined transport here in Europe and Beijing us. All the trains and terminals are, of course, guarded. We for Fujitsu Siemens Trans Eurasia International Logistics Ltd. in China – we and the customers can also follow the trains live via GPS. Malaszewicze Dostyk March 2011: can establish a network that is currently unique in Duisburg First TEL test train on the South Route from Chongqing (China) terms of density. In China alone, it already encom- How has interest from existing and potential custom- to Europe (Duisburg) for HP passes links between the train systems and 24 large ­­ ers changed? Beijing June 2011: cities – and in China, large cities really are enormous! The number of the potential customers and enquires we get Kumul Upgrade test trains to regular service on the South Route for ­With our regular and reliable train connections, we are has risen over the last few months. We’ve had some great Shanghai HP/YXO the perfect complement to air and sea transport. The successes. More and more customers are integrating this ex- July 2014: reason behind our success is that we as an operator traordinary rail connection into their supply chains. Chongqing Start of TEL regular service from Duisburg to Chongqing with a are the connecting link between the logistics company These days we even transport fully assembled luxury cars – focus on the automotive industry and the railways; we assume the capacity utilisation they are loaded into a container in Duisburg and 14–16 days March 2015: risk of the trains and thereby make transport services later they are out on the roads in China. However, the plan- Start of TEL regular service from Wuhan (China) to Hamburg via the trans-Eurasian corridors available to all cus- ning for this kind of regular transport operation between

April 2015: tomers. trans-eurasia-logistics Asia and Europe does take time. Customers go through a Start of TEL regular service from Hamburg to Wuhan (China) As a result it was possible to develop from a company planning process that can take up to two years and they have

train to a public train. Photos: to adjust their supply chains accordingly.

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QUALITY: An employee at a paper mill checks sheets of pulp. The paper industry is under great economic pressure.

aging, hygiene and speciality papers. But changes in STRATEGIC ASSISTANCE AND FURTHER the market are forcing the large manufacturers to re- DEVELOPMENT structure their businesses. That also has repercussions “In parallel with standard operational support, we for the logistics industry. Rather than just transport offer customers the opportunity to work with DB services, there is now growing demand for complete Schenker on the conceptual development of their logistics solutions. transport operations,” says Reiser. This includes plan- “Our customers are readjusting their supply chains ning possible additional volume capacity, controlling and as they do so they are aligning themselves with reloading processes, automated interfaces and more the growth markets,” confirms Martin Reiser, Key streamlined and efficient processes. All the customer Account Manager Pulp & Paper Team in the Building needs to do is provide the preliminary plans and vol- Materials, Industrial and Consumer Goods Division. umes and we can then integrate these volumes into “As a logistics service provider, we can support the the rail network in time for the requested date. pulp and paper industry with reliable transport Depending on the customer’s requirements, the ­operations.” Pulp Sprinter systems can extend from the loading Rail is playing an important part in this regard. DB point to the end customer. They can also be custom- Schenker Rail transports around six million tonnes designed with numerous additional logistics services of pulp and paper annually across Europe. Pulp and LIGHTWEIGHT: paper – which encompasses the graphic paper, pack- Pulp supply for the aging paper, hygiene paper and pulp segments – is a paper industry key sector for DB Schenker Rail, both in terms of the is a real challenge European network and in terms of the wagon fleet. because the material This strong position places an obligation on the rail has to be protected freight company to develop new and improved con- from environmental influences. Rail is cepts in partnership with customers. That is why DB playing a key role in Schenker Rail is resolutely proceeding with the Euro- the logistics of the pean strategy and is continuing with the expansion industry. of the production network. For this reason, DB Schenker Rail offers tailor- made Pulp Sprinter systems that serve direct con- nections quickly, flexibly and reliably. “Pulp Sprinters are rail systems that combine the advan- tages of direct trains for manufacturing with quality- for each individual customer. The goal is always to assured, scalable wagon groups,” explains Reiser. achieve a perfect process result for the customer. If The result is that trains operate at high utilisation necessary, DB Schenker Rail also makes use of the THE PULP SPRINTER grand old age: paper has been manufactured in rates, as quickly and directly as possible, and are services offered by expert partners, which are inte- A Germany for 625 years and today, the German supplemented by wagon groups. As a result, DB grated into the transport chain. DB Schenker under- SYSTEM FOR A paper industry is the largest in Europe. Companies Schenker Rail is able to react quickly to fluctuations takes a wide range of tasks, from loading wagons for a have long been manufacturing across national borders in transport volumes and routes in volatile markets big pulp customer to the supply control of rail volumes VOLATILE SECTOR and are reliant on international supply chains – be that such as pulp. The Pulp Sprinter system works flex- for another customer. With its intelligent logistics solutions, for the transportation of raw materials to plants or for ibly with a rolling forecast, meaning that transport The delivery-ready system has four key character- the distribution of the finished product to the cus- capacity can be adapted, if prior warning is given in istics: security, robustness, transparency and ease-of- DB Schenker Rail helps customers tomer. good time, to the flows, e.g. a number of ports of de- use.“We want to expand our network, we want to from the pulp and paper industry to However, the European paper industry continues livery. consolidate and strengthen our position in European reduce their costs and become more to feel the pressure. There is still excess capacity in The system trains are monitored in a targeted man- freight transport, and we want to provide the best logis- paper production, demand is going down, and chang- ner. Staff at the European DB Schenker Control Tower tics concepts for companies in this sector,” says Reiser. competitive. System trains and system ing trade flows with new growth regions is having an EOC in Frankfurt am Main manage trains internation- “We have no limits, when it comes down to it –much groups ensure sustainability and effect on the business. Admittedly, with a total of 22.5 ally. Possible events are handled by the expert Pulp like pulp itself!” an reliability in the supply chains. million tonnes, German paper manufacturers did in- & Paper Team at the customer service centre in Duis- crease production levels slightly last year. The German ddp images burg. And finally, there is excellent wagon availabil- Contact | Martin Reiser Pulp and Paper Association states that higher volumes ity because DB Schenker Rail can make use of a Telephone: +49 (0)421 221-2355

of paper were produced mainly in the areas of pack- Photos: number of wagon pools. [email protected]

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ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SHUNTERS DB Schenker Rail UK is now shunting electrically.

he small, powerful electrical shunting units that CHILLED T DB Schenker Rail UK recently introduced emit about 649 tonnes less carbon dioxide than their clas- TRANSPORT sic diesel counterparts. The electric shunters, known as Zephir 1800e CRABs, are mainly used at the Crewe From November 2015, Transfesa and Toton marshalling yards, where almost 14,000 is planning to run two trains locomotive moves are undertaken each year. The po- werhouses are able to push or pull up to 400 tonnes per week between Rotterdam and with a maximum drawbar pull of 20 KN in dry weather Valencia – with temperature- or 16 KN in wet weather. controlled containers. Until recently, the rail freight operator used diesel shunting locomotives. In September 2014, the com- pany decommissioned most of its Class 08 shunting locomotives in search of greener alternatives. In April 2015, DB Schenker Rail UK decided to use electric ransfesa is opening a new, attractive service be- The containers are suitable for the transport of vehicles in Toton and Crewe. In addition to the envi- T tween Valencia and Rotterdam. With immediate foodstuffs, high-tech products or other high-value ronmental benefit, they are also safer than the previ- effect, DB Schenker Rail’s Spanish national subsid- goods. Diesel-electric generators in the containers ously used models. For example, they offer the iary is running two trains per week with temperature- regulate the internal temperature as required between operator greater visibility during coupling operations controlled containers. An agreement to this effect has -25 and 25 °C. The temperature remains stable even at the platform. been signed by Transfesa and a consortium of Dutch with extreme external temperatures of up to 40 °C, “Rail freight is already considered to be a more en- companies. Under this deal, Transfesa is responsible which is common in summer months in Spain. The vironmentally friendly mode of transport than road, for the full management of the services, from the col- innovative track-and-trace system does not merely but we still actively seek ways to reduce the lection of the containers to their delivery. The rail enable customers to follow the progress of their freight organisation’s environmental footprint even further,” logistics operator is also in charge of managing the consignments throughout their journey: they can commented Andrew Byrne, Head of Maintenance and trains and offers a comprehensive track-and-trace also check the temperature conditions during trans- Infrastructure at DB Schenker Rail UK. “We look for- ­service to enable customers to follow the containers’ port operation and adjust them accordingly. ward to seeing the long-term benefits that the electric ­progress. In this way, Transfesa has created a multimodal shunters will provide!” These transport operations are meeting the highest transport solution for temperature-sensitive products CLIMATE ZONE: demands. “We already have a lot of experience being carried by rail. The intermodal terminal at Silla The new containers through our just-in-time transport operations for the in Valencia opens up the whole Spanish market to keep the LITTLE automotive industry,” explains Ben Smail at Trans- customers for northern Europe and overseas. Similar- temperature stable ELECTRICAL and are suitable fesa, who is responsible for the transports. His object- ly, Spanish customers now have access to the Northern POWERHOUSES: for transporting The vehicles can ive is to reduce transport times,and at athe same time European market – with a direct connection to the sea food, high-tech move up to 400 CO -FREE ACROSS THE CONTINENT increase the shelf life in the markets. port of Rotterdam RSC. mh products and other tonnes. 2 high-value goods. DB Schenker Rail becomes the first rail freight operator to offer climate-neutral transport operations throughout Europe Contact | Ben Smail Telephone: +33 (0)141 1157-43 urope’s biggest rail freight company, DB Schenker proud to be offering Eco Neutral, the first zero carbon [email protected] E Rail, is the first operator to offer climate-neutral rail freight product in the UK,” says Steve Pryce, Head rail transport services across Europe. Customers who of Marketing at DB Schenker Rail UK. attach importance to their environmental goals can DB Schenker’s experts calculate the customer’s

thus book CO2-free rail services and cut their carbon absolute and specific emissions on the basis of the footprint. transport data. The results flow into an eco-friendly Eco Plus customers in Germany and Austria oper- transport concept, with Eco Plus and Eco Neutral ate on a completely emission-free basis, because the being taken into account. The company works in traction energy comes from renewable sources. Such offsetting the resulting emissions with atmosfair, an sustainable sources of energy are not available through- organisation that invests money in climate change out Europe, though. In other countries, DB Schenker projects, in wind farms, biogas facilities and envir- Rail therefore relies on offsetting the resulting climate- onmentally friendly projects in Third World coun- damaging emissions – there, customers can use DB tries.

Schenker’s Eco Neutral scheme. Customers can choose from a selection of projects UNIT 45 In the UK, for example, DB Schenker Rail UK re- sponsored by atmosfair. They then receive an annual

cently launched this pioneering product. “We are certificate on the volume of CO2 saved. an Photos:

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NEW SERIES WoMEN AT WORK

“NEVER GIVE UP!” THE DB SCHENKER RAIL ITALIA “Never give up – that’s my motto,” says Alessia Tag- and Brescia. To achieve this, DB Schenker Rail OPERATIONS TEAM: liabue. “It is often the case that quick decisions need Italia has at its disposal 93 train drivers and 122 Stefanie Gedike to be taken, whether they relate to customers, train employees at the marshalling yards. “The biggest (Short Term Planning), drivers, construction sites or locomotive break- challenge is to build a good relationship with our Roncolato Dolores downs. When it gets really difficult you have to work customers every day through transparent commu- (Senior Dispatcher), out a solution very rationally and on a step-by-step nication, timely information and good quality and Alessia Tagliabue basis!” performance,” says Tagliabue, who has been wor- (Head of Operations), Gianni Panzera And solutions are what are expected from Alessia king in rail freight transport since 2003 with Nord- (Transport Manage- Tagliabue and her Operations Team colleagues at cargo, the predecessor of DB Schenker Rail Italia. ment Leader), DB Schenker Rail Italia. Day by day. Tagliabue man- In addition, the Operations Team handles all issues Rosanna Montani ages a small team that deals with the Italian rail related to access to the Italian rail network and has (Customer Care), freight operator’s operational issues: the Oper- to coordinate its activities with the colleagues of the Teresa Pittelli ations Team organises and monitors production Italian network operator RFI. (Dispatcher), Elisa Parolo (Wagon and maintains contact with the train drivers. “What is special about our team is the passion and Management), DB Schenker Rail Italia operates 300 trains per enthusiasm in each and every area of activity,” says Marco Savoldelli (Short week. Its tasks also include marshalling activ- Tagliabue. “We all take care of contributing to the Term Planning) and ities for other rail companies in Domodossola greater whole!” an Anja Schatz (Eurotrainee) (f.l.t.r.). Oliver Tjaden Oliver 42 RAILWAYS 03 | 15 43 Photos: Photos: CUSTOMERS & PROJECTS CUSTOMERS & PROJECTS

SUPPLIES IN ONE GO The Fripa paper factory complies with the highest environmental standards. The company relies on DB Schenker Rail for delivery of its pulp supply.

“Think ahead. Work together. Go forward boldly.” household wipes, paper tissues, cosmetic tissues, EXPERT TEAM: forestry. The PM 7 – one of the fastest hygiene paper ordinator in Duisburg,” explains Martin Reiser, Key SUSTAINABILITY: This motto is not only valid for the core business of toilet paper and hand towels. The company was foun- Bernd Müller machines on the market – has been in operation here Account Manager at DB Schenker Rail. A specialist Together with DB the Fripa paper factory but also for their logistics. ded in Berlin in 1911 by Hermann Friedrich as a “pa- (Meyer’s Sohn), since November 2014. It can produce 2,100 metres per Pulp & Paper team works from the customer centre Schenker Rail, Fripa Carmen Samorski is optimising its ­Fripa, which was recently awarded the Ökoprofit label per processing company”. His son Albert Friedrich minute, or 36,000 tonnes of paper a year. It repeated- there. (Purchasing supply chains. by the Bayerischer Untermain Initiative, uses envi- opened the Fripa paper factory in Miltenberg in 1948. Manager at Fripa), ­ ly re-uses process water in what is largely a closed DB Schenker Rail works with customers to opti- ronmentally friendly rail transport. This year, DB The modern high-bay warehouse 2 catches your eye Martin Reiser cycle, thereby reducing the volume of wastewater. mise processes. Because of the long tradition of work- Schenker Rail will transport a total of between 90,000 from a distance. The trans-lucent, graduated façade (DB Schenker Rail) Fripa has direct access to the River Main but it ing with the industry, logistics for paper manufacturers and 100,000 tonnes of pulp to Miltenberg am Main lets a lot of light into the 21,500-pallet high-bay ware- (from left). does not have its own harbour. In the past, inland is one of the European rail freight company’s core for the Fripa paper machines, taking around 4,100 house. waterway ships were processed via the port in competencies. Carmen Samorski talks about this co- HGV journeys off German motorways. Business is stable. While demand for paper from Aschaffenburg and the last 39 kilometres bridged by operation in glowing terms: “In DB Schenker Rail, we The Meyer’s Sohn (FMS) logistics company is also printing plants is on the decline, hygiene paper is road. “The best concept therefore proved to be trans- have an excellent and experienced partner on our side. involved in this exciting development. Bernd Müller, crisis-proof. “Who can or would want to make do with- port by rail from the seaport to Miltenberg,” says Our Key Account Manager takes an active interest in who is responsible for the pulp market at the freight out toilet paper or tissues?” asks Samorski. “Digital- Samorski. “We’ve been able to implement this very our concerns and is always ready to listen. We know forwarder, has been working in close collaboration isation has meant that fewer books, newspapers and well in cooperation with DB Schenker and have been that we are in good hands. The mills of the system with DB Schenker Rail for many years on this common magazines are printed, and there has been a corres- working on this principle now for many years.” sometimes still grind a little slowly, though,” adds objective. ponding decline in the demand for paper. Fortunate- Today, 90 per cent of raw material deliveries arrive Fripa’s Head of Logistics. She would love to see shorter Adhering to high environmental standards is an ly, hygiene paper products still can’t be digitalised.” at the factory in this way. decision-making processes. “Because we are reaching important objective for the paper manufacturer. Fripa is one of the most modern hygiene paper fac- Since acquiring the new PM 7 paper machine, add- the capacity limits of the loading track, it is almost “Transport has to be inexpensive and efficient but it tories in Europe – and one of the most sustainable. A itional volumes are required and these are also trans- impossible to make up for transport delays in regular should also place as light a burden on the environment cogeneration facility supplies environmentally friend- ported by DB Schenker Rail. “That presented a new operations. We therefore rely on a high level of punc- and infrastructure as possible,” explains Carmen Sa- ly electricity and heating. In 2014, Fripa undercut the challenge for us to overcome,” says Samorski. “But tuality and flexible services.” This is why an additional morski, Head of Raw Materials Purchasing and Inter- minimum BAT (best available technology) value re- we’ve succeeded there, too.” In January 2015, the service for Fripa is currently being planned. mh nal Logistics at Fripa. “HGV transport is a huge commendation for wastewater by 60 per cent. The Fripa paper factory hired a team track in Miltenberg. burden on our roads and on the environment so it’s pulp processed here is bleached without the use of Since then, wagons have been unloaded via Fripa’s raw Bernd Hartung Bernd Contact | Martin Reiser not an option for us.” Fripa makes products that chlorine and is FSC or PEFC-certified, indicating that materials warehouse, which is directly adjacent. “Co- Telephone: +49 (0)421 221-2355

everyone needs and has probably held in their hands: the purchased products originate from sustainable Fotos: ordination of the inflows is managed by our pulp co- [email protected]

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ROYAL MAIL EXTENDS ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS NETZWERKBAHN TRANSPORT CONTRACT Two-stage electronic commissioning in the capacity-checked network is giving many DB Schenker Rail has retained an ith effect from 1 June 2015, the British subsid- DB Schenker Rail customers better predictability and more transparency. important customer: Britain’s Royal W iary DB Schenker Rail UK is fulfilling the im- Scholz Recycling GmbH & Co. KG has already reorganised parts of its commissioning process portant contract for Royal Mail for a further three and is thereby taking an active part in the development of DB Schenker Rail. Mail has extended its transport years. This entails carrying out six daily transport contract with the rail freight operator. operations on the west coast and two on the east coast. Reliability and partnership has led to To do so, DB Schenker Rail UK is using Royal Mail’s the contract, first signed in 2010, rail fleet, which consists of 15 mail trains in total. “Our rail network has improved year on year and being extended again for three years. we are delighted to be continuing our relationship with DB Schenker Rail UK,” says David Hawkins, Head of Contract Operations at Royal Mail. “We are currently part-way through a major refit programme and we are seeing the benefit of working with a partner that provides both operational solutions and engineer- ing expertise.” “We are delighted to have retained the Royal Mail contract. We believe they chose us because of our partnership approach and desire to find flexible and sustainable solutions,” says Mark Keighley, Account Manager at DB Schenker Rail UK. “We have enjoyed an excellent relationship with Royal Mail under the existing contract. Because we have taken on the main- tenance of the locomotives for the Class 325 mail trains, we have been able to increase the trains’ reli- cholz Recycling is a pilot customer in the migrati- continuous supply of scrap metal for their furnaces. PILE IT HIGH: ability.” S on to this new business model. The recycling As a leading international recycling company and one Scrap metal is an One example of the high quality of the services company is already commissioning 40 wagons a week of Germany’s largest providers of scrap metal, Scholz important resource for the that DB Schenker Rail UK offers was provided by with DB Schenker Rail on the basis of the new “Netz- supplies 200 steel plants, foundries and smelting steel industry. the mail trains during the most recent Christmas werkbahn” business model. The aim of Netzwerkbahn plants in many parts of the world with scrap metal. period. Back in September 2014, Royal Mail had ap- is to introduce a capacity-led network so that fluctu- Material is collected at various local disposal points proached the rail freight operator with the challenge ations in transport duration is reduced, thereby ma- and bundled together into large materials flows, pro- of coming up with a design to boost the mail trains’ king the service more reliable and predictable for cessed, stored and finally delivered to a range of buyers. capacity. Prior to this, each wagon had been able to customers. The company’s headquarters in Essingen The integration of additional locations happens carry a maximum of 200 mail containers, known as in Baden-Württemberg and various dispatch points step by step and in close cooperation with DB Schen- “Yorks”. in eastern Germany are already connected to both ker Rail’s customer advisors. “A close, integrated plan- Without a solution for the quesion of capacity, domestic and cross-border transport services. Scholz ning process between the customer, manufacturing Royal Mail would have had to move the transport oper- staff commission transport operations in a two-stage and distribution forms the basis for the dimensioning ations onto the roads on grounds of cost. A team of process, taking into consideration the commissioning of a stable network,” says Agnieszka Jasiorowska of established experts led by DBSR UK Production Man- deadlines. DB Schenker Rail immediately checks DB Schenker Rail. She is a member of the young team ager Martin Bratt were able to make a series of altera- whether there is sufficient free capacity in the network that is working with the Key Account Managers to tions to the structure and design to increase the and calculates the time of receipt. support customers as they switch to the new commis- wagons’ capacity by 16 per cent, allowing each wagon Scholz Recycling can now already place capacity- sioning system. to transport 36 additional Yorks. For each train, this checked orders more than twelve hours in advance. From next year, all DB Schenker Rail customers meant an extra 108 containers that could be carried. Around one hour before dispatch, the wagon numbers will be able to take advantage of two-stage electronic It was now necessary to work at high speed: the and the final weight figures are added to the order. “So commissioning. Electronic capacity checks allow full peak season for the Christmas mail was due to start in that we continue to have the usual level of flexibility, transparency in all booked consignment flows in the NIGHT SHIFT: mid-November 2014. This gave the DB Schenker Rail which is absolutely vital in our business, an important network. As a result, planning is made easier for cus- Hard work on the mail train. One British UK team only four weeks to put the proposed altera- element of the success of Netzwerkbahn for us is that tomers because capacity and transport information is DB Schenker Rail team tions into effect. Nevertheless, the team managed to customer requirements are given absolute priority in more reliable. mh increased their roll out the first adapted trains on time, much to the the operational application and implementation,” train capacity in the customer’s satisfaction. “Everybody involved in this says Thomas Grötzinger, Head of Logistics at Scholz Contact | Agnieszka Jasiorowska 2014 Christmas period: work can be proud of what has been achieved,” says Recycling. DB has been a trusted logistics partner of Telephone: +49 (0)69 26534-49 Darren Challoner, Mark Keighley. an the company for many decades – in 2013, DB Schenker [email protected] Stefan Williams, David Rail transported 1.7 million tonnes of scrap metal for Jackson, Martin Bratt, Wayne Miller, Richard Contact | Mark Keighley Mail, plainpicture Royal Scholz. You’ll find a detailed overview of the commissioning Baker, Paul Roberts and Telephone: +44 (0)7801 905-035 Predictability is of utmost importance for Scholz. process here:

Garry Shaw (from left). [email protected] Photos: The steel plants that Scholz supplies are reliant on a www.dbschenker.com/netzwerkbahn

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“ALL FIELDS OF EXPERTISE UNDER ONE ROOF” Thorsten Wartenpfuhl, Head of Railports and Logistics Services in the Building Materials, Industrial and Consumer Goods Division at DB Schenker Rail AG, Frank Nibbes, European Intermodal Sales Director at Schenker AG, and Falk Petereit, Head of Logistics at German Pellets, explain what potential they see in the multimodal transport chain.

Mr Petereit, how important is rail for German we’ve had in DB Schenker Nieten a partner that has Pellets? aligned its transport logistics solutions with our logis- Petereit: Over longer transport distances, rail is a very tics processes and particularly with our product, wood competitive mode of transportation, both for the sup- pellets. The collaboration was one of trust and partner- ply of raw materials and for the distribution of the end ship right from the start. We work together closely, ­ product. And because we are always looking to reduce for example when it comes to drawing new conceptual

our CO2 emissions, the environmentally friendly aspect plans for transport operations – across all transport of the railways is a decisive issue. I should mention in modes. passing that rail makes it possible for us to transport this renewable form of energy – wood pellets store the How will the multimodal cooperation be continued? energy of the sun – over long distances in a sustain- Wartenpfuhl: We look at all sectors of our market seg- able and economical way. And we’re doing this while ment and we look across sectors to see how and where the politicians are still debating the construction of we can offer other solutions. To do this, we talk with north-south electricity highways.

Mr Nibbes, how could the links between road and rail be improved? Nibbes: We are improving the way we coordinate the operations of DB Schenker Nieten and DB Schenker Lo- gistics. Dedicated points of contact guarantee a quick CLOSE exchange of information about all land transportation COLLABORATION: modes on all process levels. Customer processes are The aim of the being better interwoven and continuously optimised Multimodal Initiative is to offer the by means of an integrated approach. best transport logistics solutions What is the aim of DB Schenker Rail and DB Schenker from the customers’ Logistics’ “Multimodal Initiative”? perspective. Wartenpfuhl: It is obvious from the example of German Pellets that a consolidated and integrated cooperation can only be an advantage – especially for our customers and listen to our customers. We want to be an innova- GREEN ENERGY AND GREEN LOGISTICS: but also, of course, for us at DB Schenker. With an in- tive solutions partner, not least because we want to terlinked multimodal solution design by DB Schenker, ­ensure customer retention. We will continue to drive FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST MILE we can offer customers the best transport logistics forward the expansion of other corridor-based multi- ­solution, individually designed for them. That’s why modal solutions with the national subsidiaries of DB Wood pellets from the Baltic Sea to end customers in Italy: DB Schenker Nieten and DB we’re looking to see where there is potential for multi- Schenker Logistics in Europe in the area of land trans- Schenker Logistics are working together on transport operations for German Pellets. modal transport operations and how we can integrate portation. them expediently into our DB Schenker network. Through our expertise in transport and logistics, we How can German Pellets benefit? WOOD PELLETS: ood pellets are said to be the fuel of the fu- cheaper than fossil fuels. That and state incentive aim to bring about added value all along our customers’ Petereit: We see further potential for tapping into new The market for W ture. The compressed wooden sticks are programmes have led to strong growth in the mar- supply chain, benefiting our customers but also simul- national markets and for using new transportation renewable energy is very environmentally and climate-friendly be- ket over the last few years. The number of pellet taneously strengthening our market position. operations in existing markets with DB Schenker Nieten growing quickly. cause they are made of renewable raw materials. It heating units in use in Germany has almost as a multimodal logistics partner. Pellet stoves are replacing oil and gas is therefore certain that a reliable supply will be doubled since 2010 and it is expected that around German Pellets What are your thoughts on that as a customer, Mr heating in many available in future. However, the main reason for 400,000 pellet-fuelled stoves will be in operation Petereit?

places. the popularity of wood pellets is that they are by the end of 2015. Photos: Petereit: From the very beginning of our cooperation, Interview: Mirko Heinemann

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German Pellets is one of the world’s leading pro- to ensure that the quality of our product is also com- “WE ARE A MULTIMODAL RAIL MARKET ducers and suppliers of wood pellets. Since March pletely maintained in the logistics chain,” explains KNOWLEDGE: 2013, DB Schenker Nieten has been the company’s Falk Petereit. LOGISTICS EXPERT” Stephan Strauss, CEO Industry Sector partner for inter-plant transport operations and trans- One of the German Pellets group’s 15 worldwide Building Materials, port operations for palletised goods to Italy, one of production sites is located in the port of Wismar on Industrial and Europe’s main consumers of pellets. Pellet fireplaces the Baltic Sea. From here, the pellets are driven by Consumer Goods at are particularly popular in Italy, with more than 2 lorry to Rostock, where they are transhipped to the Stephan Strauss, CEO Industry Sector DB Schenker Rail. million in use in the country. Since August 2013, DB railways. They then continue by train to the conurba- Building Materials, Industrial and Consumer Schenker Nieten has also been providing raw wood tions of northern Italy. There, the pellets are tranship- Goods at DB Schenker Rail explains how the transportation to supply German Pellet’s plants in ped once again and the final journey to the end European rail freight company is meeting the southern Germany. customer is undertaken by lorry. The whole “door-to- door” transport operation is managed by DB Schenker growing demands made of rail-based and TRANSFORMATION INTO AN INTEGRATED Nieten, from the first to the last mile, including tran- multimodal transport logistics in Europe. LOGISTICS PROVIDER shipment, storage in the logistics centre and HGV DB Schenker Nieten has long been a presence in the transport to the customer. sector as a specialist in logistics solutions for everything to do with wood and wood products. DB Schenker Rail’s Building Materials, Industrial and GOOD PROSPECTS: Mr Strauss, what lasting changes are you currently Consumer Goods Division carries out 80,000 trans- France and Italy seeing in your markets? port operations each year and is far more than just a will be key markets We’re seeing increasing dynamism in all segments of our in future. rail logistics expert. industry sector, both in terms of the purchasing market In partnership with DB Schenker Logistics, the and the sales market. The volatility in these segments experts at DB Schenker Nieten develop integrated, has increased substantially. At the same time, the struc- Europe-wide multimodal solutions for customers in ture of the industry is also changing. There is huge fluc- the wood industry, such as German Pellets. The in- tuation in the volumes being produced and production termodal linking of road and rail under the product cycles are becoming shorter. As a result, logistics plan- name DB SCHENKERhangartner guarantees a solu- ning is becoming more short-term and volatile, meaning tion that is particularly climate-friendly and that is that our reaction time also has to get faster and faster. tailor-made to the requirements of individual custom- What measures have you introduced? ers: “As a company in the renewable energy sector, What do these changes mean for the strategic orienta- The BIC Division began its transformation two years ago, the sustainability of the whole supply chain – from tion of your industry sector? changing from being purely a rail carrier to being a multi- the raw material to the end customer – naturally plays It is a partnership with huge potential. In add- The demands made in terms of the flexibility of a tailored modal rail logistics expert. We offer integrated solutions a decisive role. An important part of that is an en- ition to Italy, German Pellets is seeing growing mar- logistics operation are increasing, just as our customers’ across transport modes through our internal freight for- vironmentally friendly transport and logistics chain,” kets in other European countries such as France. expectations are increasing. Our response to this has warder DB Schenker Nieten and we also systematically asserts Falk Petereit, Head of Logistics at German Overall, the European pellet market is experiencing been to develop multimodal solutions expertise so that use best-in-class service providers as logistics partners. Pellets. Multimodal transport operations combine double-digit growth every year (20 million tonnes we can offer our customers innovative and customised Because of that, we are able to manage multimodal trans- the strengths of various transport modes. “Of course, consumed in 2014). For longer transport distances, solutions. For a long time now, it has not been enough in port operations all from one source – with conventional the full advantage of rail can be exploited in multi- a “non-stop, international, rail-based, door-to-door many cases to simply offer a traction service on the rail- wagonload transport, containers and the roads. The nerve modal transport operations over long distances,” ex- transport solution within Europe that is operation- ways. We prefer to focus on our customers’ entire supply centre of our operations management is our Control plains Walter Brand, Head of Sales at DB Schenker ally managed from a single source” is particularly chain, with integrated transport logistics solutions and Tower. From here, we offer a comprehensive customer Nieten. “As a freight forwarder, we then use other suitable, according to Falk Petereit. DB Schenker with our core competence – rail. care and support service for our international door-to- transport modes for distances where it would not be Nieten and DB Schenker Logistics are agreed: the door transport operations – across all transport modes viable to integrate rail into our customers’ supply expansion of the successful multimodal partnership What kind of multimodal expertise can you offer? and service partners in the chain. All information streams chain.” that aims at joint market penetration has well and Today, we are able to manage the whole supply chain from all the participants in the transport logistics chain The multimodal logistics centres in which the tran- truly begun. mh for our customers. Our core competence is rail, a converge here. We have established and expanded on shipment between road and rail is carried out play an sustainable transport mode whose real advantage lies both the expertise and the resources we have so that we important role. Value-added services, i.e. services that Contact | Thorsten Wartenpfuhl in longdistance transportation. As a component of a can achieve this – and are thus well-positioned in the mar- go beyond transhipment, are also performed here: Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-67800 comprehensive and integrated transnational transport ket and fully prepared for the future. interim storage, commissioning, re-packaging and [email protected] logistics service, rail is an increasingly important Contact | Stephan Strauss production checks – the partly roofed, partly open element in this success. DB Schenker Rail can make Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61200 storage areas offer a number of possibilities. German Contact | Walter Brand DB Schenker Rail use of a Europewide network, thereby meeting the [email protected] Pellets can also take advantage of this growing expert- Telephone: +49 (0)9721 3870-420 increasing demands made of international rail-based

ise: “As a manufacturer of premium pellets, we have [email protected] Photos: transport logistics. Interview: Mirko Heinemann

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EXPRESS TRAIN TO THE MEDITERRANEAN DB Schenker Rail Automotive has created a compelling proposal that has enabled inter-plant transport operations from Germany to Spain to be switched from road to rail.

CERBÈRE: B Schenker Rail Automotive was successful on middle of 2014. This works on the basis that the Automotive was not just the competitive price and tracking consignments does not only indicate at any The trains are D two counts in a tender for the transport of mater- wagons are either completely full or empty in each the reliability of its rail transport but also the Europe- time the location of a wagon containing the correspond- switched to the ials for the car manufacturer SEAT. The European rail direction. Prior to this, the automotive components an rail freight operator’s fast delivery times: “We set ing freight, it even enables dispatchers to search by broad gauge at freight operator did not merely win a major plant sup- used to reach Spain by road, in lorries. DB Schenker off from Fallersleben on Friday and reach the SEAT item number and quantity. the Spanish border. It is not much ply order but at the same time made a huge contribu- put forward a sophisticated plan that persuaded plant in Martorell at midday on Monday. This means The component transport operations currently further to the SEAT tion to easing the burden on Europe’s motorways. Volkswagen’s group logistics specialists to switch to our shuttle system is just as fast as a lorry,” Andrey begin their journeys in the Volkswagen plants at plant. DB Schenker Rail has been conveying sheet metal the environmentally friendly rail transport mode. Ludwigs from VW Europe Components Sales, DB Wolfsburg-Fallersleben, Braunschweig and Kassel-

parts, transmission units and other automotive com- This enabled DB Schenker Rail to win the tender DB Schenker Schenker Rail Automotive, points out. Another reason Baunatal. “These are single-wagon transport oper- ponents from Volkswagen plants in Germany to the against a large number of international rivals. What for the decision lay in the modern track and trace op- ations, which are fed into the automotive production

SEAT plant at Martorell near Barcelona since the clinched the decision in favour of DB Schenker Rail Photos: tions. DB Schenker Rail Automotive’s system for network, known as the Automotive RailNet, and

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“We are glad to have established a good solution for our customer SEAT in collaboration with our group’s Transfesa subsidiary.” SANDRA UEBEL, DB SCHENKER SERVICES SPAIN & PORTUGAL

consolidated into operational block trains,” explains Schenker subsidiary Transfesa. “We are glad to have ASK THE EXPERT: Klaas Lange, responsible for customer projects at DB established a good solution for our customer SEAT in A DB Schenker Schenker Rail Automotive. At Kaiserslautern-Ein- collaboration with our group’s Transfesa subsidiary,” Rail employee fits a new axle. siedlerhof, they are integrated into the existing Medi- says Sandra Uebel (DB SR Services Spain & Portugal). terranean Shuttle, which comes from Mannheim. The The final leg of the journey is covered by the Span- shuttle takes on additional loads in Einsiedlerhof and ish state rail operator RENFE, which takes responsi- Saarbrücken and then moves on to France and Spain. bility for transport to the SEAT plant in Martorell The shuttle is also used by other motor vehicle manu- near Barcelona. At the plant itself, Transfesa staff facturers, such as Opel and Ford. “We have incorp- again take over the coordination of the freight wagons. orated the SEAT operations neatly into this,” Andrey The empty structures that held the components are Ludwigs explains. “The additional volume means that then dispatched in the opposite direction and trans- we are able to improve our train utilisation rates and ported back to the Volkswagen plants. to offer a high-frequency system, which represents One major advantage of the DB Schenker network good value for heavy freight by comparison with lorry is the direct, fast flow of information among the sub- transport, thanks to the loading-capacity advantage.” sidiaries in the DB Group. Orders arrive electronically As soon as an order for a particular number of com- at the EOC/OOC1 European Operations Centre in ponents is placed at the SEAT plant, DB Schenker Rail Duisburg and are sent simultaneously to the partici- is able to respond immediately. DB Schenker Rail pating partners ECR and Transfesa, which means that Automotive’s internal “Link BPA” system helps with staff there are notified promptly of the wagons that are this. Its the system that is used to initiate the transport coming their way. “As a result, the partners involved orders from Spain. “There is no longer any need for know at an early stage what resources need to be plan- consignment notes, and all the parties involved are ned, for example, for traction in France or re-axling on included automatically,” Klaas Lange explains. “This the Franco-Spanish border,” Klaas Lange explains. At is why we are also able to guarantee short delivery the OOC1, a dedicated member of staff monitors the times.” The system is operated by staff at DB Schenker materials transport consignments and is available to Rail’s Spanish subsidiary, Transfesa. the customer every day to answer any questions con- cerning these transport operations to Spain. COOPERATION WITH TRANSFESA At present, 50 freight wagons are on the move in Alongside Transfesa, one more DB Schenker Rail sub- each direction between Germany and Spain every sidiary – the French company ECR – is also involved week. Three of the five Volkswagen plants have al- in this project. At the French border, ECR assumes ready been “opened up”, meaning that processes in responsibility for the Mediterranean Shuttle’s pro- dispatch control have been switched from loading gress through France and delivers it to the Franco- onto lorries to rail transport. As soon as all five plants Spanish border. There, a challenge in terms of have been brought into this round-trip system, a total infrastructure awaits it: the German and French track volume of around 5,000 transport operations per year systems use the European standard gauge, but rail is expected. mh operators on the Iberian peninsula use the broad gauge. The wagons are “re-axled”: they are lifted up Contact | Andrey Ludwigs AG Bahn Michael Neuhaus; Deutsche and the axles are changed. This work is done at the Telephone: +49 (0)511 286-4864

Franco-Spanish border station of Cerbère by the DB [email protected] Photos:

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triking engine drivers, works on the line, accidents S and technical and bureaucratic hurdles have re- cently all caused delays on the Polish–German corridor, VOLKSWAGEN AND especially at this important border crossing point. For Volkswagen, the stable implementation of DB SCHENKER RAIL OVERCOME transport operations is vital. After all, the vehicle pro- duction plants in Poznań (Poland) and Kaluga (Rus- BORDERS TOGETHER sia) are linked via this route. In spring, representatives of Volkswagen and Staff from various divisions at DB Schenker Rail presented their plan of action and the process en- DB Schenker Rail met in Frankfurt (Oder). This location hancements already made to the Volkswagen repre- on the Polish–German border was not chosen sentatives. at random. Those in charge at both companies wanted “We were able to show Volkswagen that DB Schen- to inspect and assess rail border processes. ker Rail, through the measures we’ve implemented already, continues to be a reliable and competent lo- gistics partner and that we meet Volkswagen’s qual- ity expectations,” says Agnieszka Szczepanska of DB Schenker Rail Automotive. In addition to simplifying the administrative bor- der-crossing process for the handover of trains be- tween DB Schenker Rail and its Polish subsidiary DB Schenker Rail Polska in Frankfurt (Oder) Oderbrücke, the deployment of multi-system locomotives since January 2015 has been a significant improvement. The class 189 locomotives are compatible with and ap- proved for all four electricity systems used in conti- A LONG-STANDING PARTNERSHIP nental Europe. DB Schenker Rail has equipped some of the existing fleet of locomotives with security sys- In March 2015, DB Schenker Rail operated the 25,000th train from tems for deployment in Germany, Poland and the Hungary to Ingolstadt for car manufacturer Audi. Czech Republic. “With these locomotives, we can cross the border without changing locomotives. The locomotive simply drives through. In the first months yőr, headquarters of Audi Hungária Motor Kft.: for many years, transporting body parts, engines NO LIMITS: of 2015, we already achieved a clear improvement in G three men jointly give the starting signal and, and complete vehicles. Painted body parts and No HGV can keep up quality for Volkswagen. The trains are consistently almost without a sound, the 569-metre train with 23 add-on parts for the Audi TT are transported with DB Schenker Rail’s shuttle trains. arriving at the Volkswagen plants on schedule again. wagons gets moving. Its destination is Ingolstadt in from Ingolstadt in double-decker wagons for as- The effort made over the past months is paying off,” Bavaria. The 25,000th Audi train from Győr has a sembly in north-western Hungary. They return report Ulf-Dieter Schultze and Dirk Zender of DB journey of 610 kilometres ahead of it before it reaches to Ingolstadt along the 610-kilometre route as Schenker Rail. the headquarters of the car manufacturer with the complete cars, accompanied by the engines, Further measures will gradually make the border- four interlinked rings. which are made in Győr for the entire model crossing process even faster. These include the dis- The departure of the anniversary train was marked range. continuation of physical border checks, the in the Hungarian city of Győr on 9 March with quite Audi has been using environmentally friendly verification of freight papers and the introduction of a ceremony. Beforehand, the DB Schenker Rail rail transportation for many years. Today, 70 per international lists and train data sheets. Hungária locomotive pulled the train from the Audi cent of Audi models from Ingolstadt reach their After the on-site inspection of the new locomotives, plant in Győr to the freight depot. The departure sig- destination by rail, 36 per cent of which using re- Helmut Schulz-Klubach, who is responsible for rail nal was given jointly by Szabolcs Gácsig, representa- newable energy, with the DB Schenker Rail product network planning at Volkswagen Konzernlogistik, tive of Audi Hungaria Motor Kft. Transport Eco Plus, for example, which allows customers to assessed the measures he’d seen: “We are satisfied Management, Ottó Horváth, Director of Operations have their goods transported to their destination

with the optimisation measures that we’ve been at Rail Cargo Hungária Zrt and Nándor Németh, CEO CO2-free. shown here by DB Schenker Rail. I believe we can now of DB Schenker Rail Hungária Kft. Since 2002, DB Schenker Rail Hungária has also SUCCESSFUL MEETING: look toward the future with confidence.” “I’m delighted and very proud that we can celebrate been responsible for shunting services at the Audi Representatives DB Schenker Rail thereby continues to make an the departure of the 25,000th train from Győr to In- plant in Győr. In 2013, DB Schenker Rail Hungária from Sales and important contribution to the supply of Volkswagen’s golstadt together today. This is impressive proof of fought off stiff competition to win the industrial Manufacturing at plants in Eastern Europe and has, through this com- the long and fruitful cooperation between DB Schen- rail services contract for the Audi plant. Today, be- DB Schenker prehensive Polish–German intra-group cooperation, ker Rail Hungária and Audi in Hungary,” says Nándor cause of the increased volumes, three DB Schenker Rail and their proved once again to one of its most important custom- Németh, CEO of DB Schenker Rail Hungária. He Rail Hungária shunting teams are deployed at the customers inspect ers that it is a competitive service provider. mh remembers the 15,000th train for Audi departing in Audi plant daily. mh the border train station at 2008 – back then the partners also marked the occa- Frankfurt (Oder) Contact | Agnieszka Szczepanska Michael Neuhaus Talinski, Holger sion with a celebration. Contact | Andrea Modrián Oderbrücke. Telephone: +49 (0)511 286-4014 Audi and DB Schenker Rail have been working Telephone: +36 (0)96 542-176

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Responsible for content The number of points awarded to Hendric Fiege PPI Transport Symposium in German Logistics Congress Head of Marketing (V. i. S. d. P.) Germany in the World Bank’s Annette Struth, Head of Bremen: An important in Berlin: One of the industry’s Marketing Communications Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 19-21 sector event for the pulp and 28-30 most important events – putting it in first place in the Project Leader October paper industry October www.bvl.de Christian Schaalo www.transportsymposium.com Telephone: +49 (0)69 265-34463 global rankings. The index evalu- E-Mail: [email protected] ates customs clearance, infrastruc- Ecomondo in Rimini, Italy: Publishers ture, professional expertise, G+J Corporate Editors GmbH A platform for sustainable Stubbenhuk 10, 20459 Hamburg punctuality and traceability of 03-06 solutions and disposal Editors deliveries. Other than Germany, www.ecomondo.com Axel Novak (an, dir.), November Mirko Heinemann (mh) only the Netherlands, Belgium, the Design United Kingdom and Singapore Jürgen Kaffer (Ltg.), Maret Tholen achieved 4 or more out of a possible Photo editing Michael Pfister 5. The collapsed state of Somalia Printers came last in the rankings. The LPI Pfitzer GmbH & Co. KG, Renningen is based on a survey of logistics ISSN 1867-9668 and express service providers and Helping the environment – printed on ECF Paper it helps logistics experts, govern- IN DEMAND ments and researchers compare DB Schenker’s website: www.dbschenker.com “IMMEDIATE AND UP TO DATE” how different countries cater to Information for new customers: the requirements of the logistics DB Schenker Rail AG DB Schenker Rail has distributed around 4,200 state-of-the-art tablet Masurenallee 33 computers among German engine drivers since December 2013. The goal: industry. 47005 Duisburg E-mail: [email protected] improved planning, faster information flow and fewer paper printouts. Service number/information for new customers: +49 (0)203 9851-9000 These aims have been achieved, says Dieter Stöckel, Group Leader Engine More information at: TRADITION: Drivers/AB in Zwickau and Acting Site Manager at Erfurt and Zwickau. http://lpi.worldbank.org The pulp industry is an important partner for Mr Stöckel, you and your team have been And what do your staff think about it? DB Schenker Rail. working with tablets for some time now. Half my staff were positive from the start, How has the experience been? a third only got interested when the tablet SIGN OF THE TIMES We were each given a Samsung 3 a while was put in their hands, and I still have You want to conveniently archive ago – that’s enough for our requirements some work to do to gradually convince the our classic, printed customer maga- at the moment. As a group leader, I person- rest. It is a requirement of the employer; 625 YEARS OF PAPER IN GERMANY zine? Order our railway folder free ally only drive 100 hours a year to keep my this is the way we have to do it. But one of charge using the QR code or by licence valid. thing has been important in terms of the Never mind digital – you won’t get far without paper. In 1851, a chemical method of pulp manu- email at:[email protected] tablets gaining acceptance: we can also paper. Photocopying paper, newspapers, filters facturing was invented, making the use of wood as Has anything changed as a result of the make personal use of them because we for the coffee machine, shopping bags, packaging a basic material in the paper industry possible. tablet? have a flat rate! paper, tissue paper and train tickets – every day In 1900, there were around 1,000 paper compan- It’s much easier to plan and execute assign- we use a product that is manufactured from a ies in Germany. Per capita paper consumption had ments now. The tablet shows everything Engine drivers have to input data them- natural substance in a very traditional way. In grown quickly: in 1800, it was around 500 grams, we need when driving the locomotive – selves when using them ... Germany, that tradition goes back 625 years. by 1900, that was up to around 15 kg, and today, To contact the editorial team, from deployment plans to instructions, That’s right, they have to correct the plans Paper had already been invented well before then. Germans use an average of 200 kg. Rather than and for collector’s files and subscriptions from regulations to forms. themselves using the current times and The Chinese made paper out of ground plant the horse-drawn carts of previous times, sched- [email protected] The advantage of the tablets is that processes. This information is the basis for TEAM PLAYER: fibres. The art of papermaking reached southern uled freight trains deliver pulp supplies to paper everything important is immediately up to the detailed service bill, so real money is at Dieter Stöckel, Europe via Arab civilisation. On 24 June 1390, the factories and finished products to customers these date. With each update, the old instruc- stake! Group Leader Nuremberg alderman Ulman Stromer established days. The pulp and paper industry has likewise be- Issue 04 | 2015 of railways tions or plans that are no longer valid are of a team of Germany’s first paper mill. With the invention of come one of the most important sectors for the will be published 12 shunting drivers deleted. Before this, everything was kept What do you do when the battery is flat? printing, the demand for paper rose quickly. It railways. an in December 2015. and 13 engine in six thick files – do you think an engine The batteries aren’t the best, it’s true. But drivers, was an Herrmann Meiko wasn’t long before demand for traditional raw driver could find anything? The new system we have sockets to recharge them in most engine driver material exceeded supplies and, in 1774, Justus More information about the anniversary at:

is really good! electric locomotives. an himself for 23 years. Photos: Claproth invented the first method for recycling www.625jahrepapier.de

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