Railways No 2 | April 2008 Informations around the rail logistics

Railion Scandinavia: Bridge to Scandinavia

In Focus DB Intermodal International When boats AirCargoExpress: Railog and DB Schenker: go by rail Fly by rail Heavyweight loads Editorial

Dear Readers,

As far as DB Schenker is concerned, the Scan- Special shipments that also have to comply dinavian services have traditionally with stringent safety standards and require been one of the most important business areas considerable expertise are very heavy loads of the international rail market. The fact the transported by rail. In such cases, DB Schenker market in the north is currently booming can and ‘s subsidiary Railog have be seen, for example, in the strong increase in been working closely with each other for many trucking business. And yet, the goods that are years now on the basis of mutual trust and primarily produced in Scandinavia, such as pa- confidence. This is also the case with the most per and forestry products, plus cars and steel, recent project, the shipment of a 120-ton in- due to their weight and volume are particularly ductor from the E.ON power plant in Datteln, suited to . In order to increase North-Rhine Westphalia to GenerPro, the ma- rail‘s share of this business and to enhance the nufacturer, in Västerås, . Getting the company‘s competitiveness on the Scandinavi- generator onto the ship was an enormous chal- an transport market, together with the Swedish lenge, as you will discover on page 24. rail freight carrier Green , we have set up the new operations company Railion Scandina- The fact that rail is one of the most environ- via. Working closely with our rail partner, we mentally-compatible modes of transport is are now in a position to provide a fast link to generally known. All the nicer then, when pro- Dr Klaus Kremper Scandinavia. Read more about our main topic ducers of alternative energy sources, such as CEO Railion Deutschland AG in this issue beginning on page 6. ENERCON, who manufacture wind turbines, not only choose Deutsche Bahn to transport their A sector that is also putting more business products, but are also responsible for reac- Deutsche Bahn‘s way is the military. Whether tivating closed branch lines. On 4 April, for ex- this is in the form of shipments of ambulances ample, the official reopening of the Abelitz-Au- destined for the Iraqi army or surplus stocks rich line took place in East Frisia. In future, DB of boots to the Austrian army: the Bundeswehr Schenker will transport a large proportion of tends to fall back on Deutsche Bahn‘s expe- the components required by the wind turbine rience in the transport of military vehicles. Our manufacturer between its plants in Aurich and new DB Rail Solutions unit is responsible for Magdeburg, plus the huge rotor blades by rail handling this business. Shipments for the mili- to the Port of Emden. Read more on page 18. tary require very special procedures, because vehicles that exceed the loading gauge, such as Sincerely tanks, frequently have to take roundabout rou- tes by rail to get to their final destination. And explosive materials must comply with special safety precautions. More on this fascinating Dr. Klaus Kremper topic on pages 12 to 14.

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 Railways Issue 2/08 Contents

02 Editorial 06 Title Page Credits

03 Contents

Spectrum 04 Deutsche Bahn acquires wagon manufacturer Niesky

New appointment for Dr. Freytag

05 Old diesel shunter livens up Mainz customs port

Title Page  The Scandinavian markets are gaining increasingly in importance in terms of European freight transport 06 Bridge to Scandinavia business. The main goods being shipped on the North-South transit corridor, besides paper and forestry products, include cars, steel and consumer goods. With the founding of Railion Scandinavia A/S, DB Schenker, together with its partner rail company Green Cargo, intends to make rail transport even 09 Freight train more attractive on the Scandinavian corridor. with extended length

10 „We are opening up 14 Aid for Iraq 21 New structure the Scandinavian corridor for Cargo Centres for rail freight“ 15 Cooperation for Shell DB Schenker and 16 Logistics Day: Behind the TRANSA: sharing offices in scenes at DB Schenker Duisburg

DB Schenker at IFAT Partner: DB Intermodal 17 HACCP: successfully tested 22 Trans-Eurasia Logistics: Container services to Russia 18 ENERCON: Fresh wind blowing from one source Railways in conversation with for DB Schenker Stig Kyster-Hansen (45), CEO New link through the of Railion Scandinavia A/S 20 Palettes of snacks

11 Swedish paper travels : 23 AirCargoExpress: by rail throughout Europe takeover confirmed Fly by rail

In Focus International 12 When boats go by rail 24 Heavy load

25 Railog: High-speed through seven countries

Special Features 26 Peine-Salzgitter transport company: Blue workhorses for the  Moritz-von-Nassau Barracks in Emmerich, close to the Dutch border, is to be steel industry closed down by the middle of the year. In anticipation, the Bundeswehr has sold seven of the motorboats from its stocks there to the Austrian army. DB Schenker won the contract to transport them by rail to .

Railways Issue 2/08  Spectrum Deutsche Bahn acquires wagon manufacturer Niesky

In January of this year, Deutsche Bahn won the bid to acquire WBN Waggonbau Niesky GmbH. With the purchase of the long-standing company in Saxony, Deutsche Bahn now has its own wagon manufacturer for the first time.

of freight wagons and matching components, including 2 and 4-axle high-capacity sliding wall wagons, open and closed self-unloading hopper wagons, and modern Laaers double-deck car carrier units.

The wagon manufacturer, which, with a total of 253 employees, is the largest employer in the region of Görlitz, had filed for insolvency back in October 2007. As part of an extensive restructuring concept, Deutsche Bahn intends to get the company back in shape. The com- pany meanwhile has no problems with its order situation: currently, there are orders on the books valued at EUR 310 million to be completed by 2010. The company‘s future is also regarded as secure,

Photo: DB AG/Lautenschläger since EUR 1.1 billion of the EUR 1.7 billion that DB Schenker intends Part of the Niesky port- ong waiting times of up to a Schenker, who will be responsible to invest in the purchase of new folio: the ‚tube‘, so-cal- Lyear and high acquisition costs for running the company, can turn vehicles over the next four years led, a four-part automo- are the norm when purchasing this around and at the same time is earmarked for freight wagons tive transport vehicle for new freight and special-purpose become more independent of the alone. the protected shipment M of vehicles fresh from the wagons. With the takeover of the wagon manufacturing industry. factory. Niesky manufacturing facilities, DB The company offers a wide range

New appointment for Dr. Freytag

ince 1 April, Schenker AG Dr. Norbert Bensel, Member of the Shas a new Chief Financial Board of Management for Trans- Officer. Dr. Lutz Freytag is port and Logistics of Deutsche now responsible for Accoun- Bahn AG. Freytag, who has a doc- ting/Finance, Controlling, Risk torate in Physics, was appointed Management and Purchasing. to the Board of Management of The 49-year old succeeds Dr. Railion Deutschland AG for Finance Marco Schröter, who has taken and Controlling in 2005. He had up an appointment at Infineon previously held various managerial Technologies AG. positions in a variety of companies, such as the Member of the Manage- „I am particularly pleased that ment Board for Finance/Controlling we have been able to appoint of Parsytec AG, a listed company, Member of the Management a man like Dr. Freytag to this for example, from 2000 to 2002. Board, with responsibility for key position, who comes from Until he transferred to Railion finance and controlling at Isola within the organisation,“ says Deutschland AG, he was also the AG in Düren. M

 Railways Issue 2/08  An unusual visit to Railion‘s head office in Mainz took place on 3 March. Representatives of the third biggest Indian steel pro- duction company, Jindal Steel, travelled to Mainz especially for the purpose of handing over a Letter of Intent and forming a personal impression of the capacity to deliver of the rail logistics company. Before the end of this year, it is planned that DB Schenker will take on responsibility for the supply of iron ore to a Jindal Steel plant in the south Indian federal state of Orissa. From left to right: Jürgen Albersmann, Transportation and Logistics Divisional Development, Ulhas Pawar, Vice President for Logistics, Jindal Steel, and Imtiaz Farooqi, Managing Director of the URRC Plant Railway.

Old diesel shunter livens up Mainz customs port

A 75-year old type 100 201-3 diesel shunter adds a piece of railway history to Mainz customs port. On 22 February, the shunter was officially handed over to the Stadtwerke Mainz AG by Dr. Klaus Kremper, Chairman of the Board of Management of Railion Deutschland AG.

he is now on dis- Tplay outside the former loco- motive shed of the port railway in the Mainz customs port, which has now been turned into the „7º Café Bar Lounge“. The 105-hp unit was deployed throughout for more than 60 years and was used for moving heavy around with high precision. It was later employed primarily on shun- ting services between the railway maintenance depot and Arnstadt station. After retiring from service in 1995, locomotive fans were able to admire the little shunter that was built in 1933 in Arnstadt‘s rail- Foto: Sascha Kopp way museum. Two years ago, it was returned to Deutsche Bahn. a clear statement: „As the No. 1 here in Mainz, where our corporate Dr. Klaus Kremper (second rail freight carrier in Europe, we headquarters are located, is where from left) and Detlev Höhne (left), management With the handover of the shun- naturally feel at home in all the we are really at home,“ adds Dr. board of Stadtwerke Mainz ter to the Stadtwerke Mainz, DB large ports, because they are a Kremper. M AG, unveil a historical Schenker‘s intention is to make major part of our business. But diesel locomotive

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Railion Scandinavia: Bridge to Scandinavia

 Railways Issue 2/08 The Scandinavian markets are coming to play an increasingly important role in European freight transport. Besides paper and forestry products, the main products carried on the north- south axis are cars, steel and consumer goods. As a result of the foundation of Railion Scan- dinavia A/S, DB Schenker and its partner railway Green Cargo hope to make rail transport an even more attractive proposition on the Scandinavian corridor.

he main transport artery of Schenker has already had a close via the Oresund and Great Belt Tthe Scandinavian corridor runs partnership for many years, has crossing to Maschen near Ham- from Sweden by way of Malmö to a 49 percent holding in Railion burg. From this point the trains , then continuing via the Scandinavia. With the remaining are fed into the single freight car border town of Padborg and Ham- 51 percent, DB Schenker is the systems of DB Schenker, so linking burg-Maschen to reach the central majority shareholder. ‚Seen in juri- up with all the important markets and southern European markets. dical terms, this just amounts to a of southern, eastern and central While Sweden is the principal rechristening of Railion Danmark,‘ Europe. ‚But we could equally well home of productive industry in this explains Falk Holtz, Managing Di- provide direct connections from connection, the service-providing rector for Finance and Controlling Halsberg or Luleå in the extreme nation of Denmark, with no more at Railion Scandinavia. But the north of Sweden all the way down than 5.4 million inhabitants, is allocation of responsibility is now to Hanover,‘ Kyster-Hansen exp- increasingly coming to be used as different. In future all marketing lains. ‚That wouldn‘t be a problem.‘ a transit country for freight trans- activities will be carried out by the Apart from transit operations, Rai- port. ‚We are observing a massive parent companies, Green Cargo lion Scandinavia also continues to volume of lorry transport here, and DB Schenker. In the case of the offer to, from with a high rate of growth,‘ com- latter, there are middle-term plans and within Denmark. ments Dr Klaus Kremper, Chairman for hiving off marketing operations of the Management Board of Rai- into a separate company under the Railion Scandinavia will consi- lion Deutschland AG. By boosting banner of Railion Danmark Sales. derably intensify the cooperation its commitment to Scandinavia, This will be owned one hundred between the partner railway DB Schenker is aiming to extend percent by DB Schenker. companies. ‚We are making it our the market share of rail. Above all objective to open up the corridor it hopes that the better quality it Sören Belin, Chairman of the Ma- for end-to-end rail freight trans- can provide will make rail services nagement Board of Green Cargo, port, and so improve the transport more competitive. likewise hopes for a rapid return efficiency rating by as much as 30 from the investment in the new percent,‘ says Kyster-Hansen. The Railion Scandinavia: a production company. ‚From our point of view, target he defines is ambitious. As company for transit operations Railion Scandinavia offers compe- well as the better capacity utili- titive connections in the direction sation of the trains, resulting in The first step in the extension of of central and southern Europe. more cost-efficient production, Schenker‘s Scandinavian transport This makes us more reliable, so Railion Scandinavia‘s clients will commitment was the foundation we will able to have a share in the be able to benefit – as will their of Railion Scandinavia as a joint major growth potential that the own customers – from the use of venture with Green Cargo, in mid- north-south corridor offers.‘ Alrea- ultra-modern multi-system loco- December last year. Dr Kremper dy today, around 80 percent of rail motives. By the summer of 2009 explains the reasons for this: ‚This shipments from Sweden go either Railion Scandinavia hopes to invest joint venture means that we will in to or through Germany. in twenty-three series 185 loco- future supply our rail transport ser- motives from Bombardier. Thanks vices on the Scandinavian corridor Cross-frontier deployment to the internationalisation of train in close conjunction with the pro- control systems, the use of these duction systems of Green Cargo.‘ The first train under the banner of will be universal: borders do not Railion Scandinavia has its head of- Railion Scandinavia set off as long present a problem. fice in Taastrup, close to Copenha- ago as 1 January of this year. ‚Ac- gen. It has been founded as a pure ting for Green Cargo and DB Schen- ‚With the help of these multi-sys- production company, arising out of ker, we offer carload and Combined tem locomotives we can drastically the former Railion Danmark – since Transport services with direct cut border stops at the frontier 2001 the Danish national corpo- connections between terminals and between Denmark and Germany, ration of Railion, Deutsche Bahn‘s shunting stations in Germany and improving the reliability of service freight railroad. The aim of the new Sweden,‘ says Stig Kyster-Hansen, and shortening transit times,‘ Holtz joint venture is to facilitate rapid Managing Director of Railion Scan- is confident. In order to facilitate connections with Scandinavia. dinavia since February. At a level of the use of the new locomotives, it approximately 60 percent, transit is therefore a top priority for Raili- Green Cargo, a subsidiary company shipments form the greater part of on Scandinavia to train locomotive of Schwedische Eisenbahnen SJ [SJ the operations that are involved. engineers in cross-border opera- Swedish Railways], with which DB The main axis runs from Malmö tions. The inherited rolling stock of

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Individual logistics services The rail corridor between Scandinavia and Germany Customers can go through DB FinnlandSchenker‘s market units or through the Intermodal business unit, or for that matter they can approach Green Cargo directly – in this way they can not only commission and purchase the traction services of Railion Scandinavia, they can also request individual transport Schweden concepts, with the backup of addi- tional services. Besides Combined LeTransport,ttland these also include on- Dänemark site services provided by strategic partners in Denmark. Among these isLitauen KombiDan A/S, a joint venture Irland involving several Danish haulage companies which aims to encoura- ge the transfer of European freight shipments to rail, and offers ef- Groß- fective solutions in the Combined britannien Transport sector in conjunction Niederlande with Intermodal. Polen DB Schenker also offers the mining industry in Denmark logistics ser- Deutschland vices from a single source. At the Belgien important Baltic ports of Frederi- cia and Kolding, Schenker‘sUkr Miningaine Denmark is building bridges – in the Tschechische market unit works hand in hand truest sense of the Republik with specialist logistics partners. word – between Frankreich These include Fredericia Shipping Scandinavia and AS, which with its auspicious lo- . Slowakei cation can offer direct links to all means of transport. It also has Moolldawiieen more than 12,000 square metres of Schweiz Österreich Little Belt Great Belt ÖresundUngarn Bridge roofed warehouse space, offering all kinds of services – including Slowenien the transshipmentRu andm ästoragenien of Railion Danmark already includes ness processes at the important steel products, as well as contai- Italien Kroatien 13 multi-system locomotives of transport interfaces. At present ner consignments and bulk goods. the EG series. They are authorised Railion Scandinavia isBosnien- operating - Daugaard AS, another of Schenker‘s for use in Denmark and Sweden, two transshipment stations, one in partners, has its head office in Portugal and with their six axes can also Taulov near Fredericia,H ine Jutland,rze- Serbien-Kolding. This- is likewise an impor- cope with the tilt on the Oresund and the other at Høje Taastrup on MontenegMMotant intersectionro point, offering Bridge – the connection between Seeland, close to . The trimodal transport connections.Bulgarien Copenhagen and Malmö (see pic- company maintains other freight Daugaard also offers professional ture on p. 6). transport centres to serve the do- transshipment services, as well as Spanien mestic market, in Fredericia, Ring- Matheazedoniea storage and eentransport of steel A new production concept sted, Glostrup, Herning, Kolding,Alban niieproducts.n The company‘s range Korsør, Køge, Nyborg, Ringsted, furthermore includes logistics ser- Besides investment in new locomo- Vejle, Århus and Padborg on the vices for paper products, chemicals tives, a new production concept is border with Germany. Around 350 and industrial goods. another factor forming the basis of employees, including locomotive Griechenland enhanced quality and punctuality. engineers, shunting staff and ad- Through Scandinavia Railion Scandinavia hopes to deve- ministrative officers, work to bring by block train lop this by 2009, in collaboration about the effective production of with Green Cargo and DB Schenker. 300 trains per week at present. ‚If In the field of single freight car In addition the partners are setting demand continues, however, we transport, as well, many Scandina- up a joint monitoring system. The will step up the frequency gradual- vian companies have been relying new production company is also ly in the middle term,‘ says Kyster- on rail for years already. For many aiming to tackle services and busi- Hansen. of them, not the least important

 Railways Issue 2/08 reason for wanting to extend the many vehicle body parts and years. The transit operations of the market share of rail is the ecologi- prefabricated components are Swedish furniture house are mainly cal benefits for the future that it now being carried from numerous dedicated to the distribution of its offers. As well as the automotive production sites of the Swedish products to central warehouses all industries, paper production en- automotive manufacturer to its over Europe. terprises play an important part production plant for new vehicles in this connection. Korsnäs, for in Ghent, Belgium. The railways re- But DB Schenker and Green Cargo example, together with its logistics sponsible for this, DB Schenker and are also hoping that their partner- partners ScandFibre and DB Schen- Green Cargo, work hand in hand to ship in Railion Scandinavia will ker, has just transferred another ensure that production sequences open up new and equally lucra- 300,000 tons of paper products to run smoothly and reliably. The tive routes. ‚As well as Sweden, rail (see article on page 11). Volvo train achieves 95 percent of course we are also setting our punctuality – a standard that has sights on industry in and Volvo too is increasingly making no rival in the field of Scandina- Finland‘, is Kyster-Hansen‘s signi- use of rail. On the basis of a so- vian transport. Ikea too has been ficant comment. M phisticated circular train system, a Deutsche Bahn customer for 30

Freight train with extended length

n February of this year fectiveness, resulting in greater The track trials are part of a IDeutsche Bahn tested competitiveness compared with preliminary project of the „GZ freight trains with a length in other modes of transport. 1000“ project, which is financed excess of 800 metres between by the Federal Ministry of Eco- the Maschen marshalling yard „We want to make a major contribu- nomic and Technology and being and the station in Ringsted, tion to transport growth in Germa- driven forward by Deutsche Denmark. The reason is that, ny as a transit country,“ Dr. Klaus Bahn. In this way, the company unlike the case in Germany Kremper, Chairman of the Board of is currently examining the ope- and many other European Management of Railion Deutschland rational and economic feasibility countries, where the length AG, pointed out. „Our long-term of trains with an overall length of trains hauling wagons is goal is to be able to operate longer of around 1,000 metres on currently limited to a maxi- trains in all European railway sys- selected routes in the German mum of 700 metres, trains in tems.“ The extra long trains have network. Other aspects being Denmark today are operating been undergoing trials with a train looked into include the extensi- scheduled services with total pair, each train of which had an on of passing loops and the need lengths of 835 metres. Using overall length of 835 metres and a to modify the command and longer freight trains will pro- weight of 2,300 tons, travelling du- control technology. M vide better use of rail network ring the night on the approximately capacity and greater cost ef- 210-kilometre long route. Photo: DB AG/Schedler

Railways Issue 2/08  Title page

„We are opening up the Scandinavian corridor for rail freight“

Effective 1 February, Stig Kyster-Hansen (45) has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Railion Scandinavia, the new joint venture between DB Schenker and Green Cargo, which was created in December 2007 from the former Railion Danmark. Railways spoke with the Danish national and qualified shipping agent about the short and long-term business goals of the new company.

container-Interfrigo in , which sing capacity and investments in specialises in intermodal shipments equipment. Another important by rail. As Director Operations traffic hub is in Århus, the second and Production at European Rail largest city in Denmark. It has a Shuttle BV & ERS Railways BV in variety of industries and a seaport Rotterdam, and then Managing located on the Kattegat straits Director of ERS Railways GmbH in between the east coast of Jutland Frankfurt, where I was responsible and the west coast of Sweden. Our for intermodal rail operations and intention is to offer local compa- for the development and introduc- nies an improved range of contai- tion of new products, I acquired ner services to and from the port. more experience in the intermodal segment. It‘s precisely this kind of How will shippers involved in experience that will stand me in wagonload services benefit from good stead at Railion Scandinavia. the one-stop shopping available at Railion Scandinavia? Do you also intend to expand intermodal services on the Scan- As a company focusing solely on dinavian corridor? train operations and providing ser- vices for our parent company DB Yes. In addition to cost-effective Schenker and Green Cargo, we can and reliable wagonload transport concentrate on our core business, Mr. Kyster-Hansen, what goals services on transit routes between which is transporting consignments have you set this year for Railion Sweden and Central Europe, we from A to B and back. Our com- Scandinavia? also see enormous growth oppor- pany provides the link between tunities in combined transport, Sweden and Germany and opens We want to establish ourselves as particularly for specific sectors of up the Scandinavian corridor for a rail carrier on the North-South industry, such as coal and steel, rail freight. As a result of the close transit corridor. A new product white goods and forestry products. cooperation of the partner railways concept that will take us into 2009 As a result, we will be focusing long and with operations directed by us, will help us to achieve that goal. term on strategic alliances that we will now increasing travel non- The focus of our activities is on will enable us to offer customers stop across the borders and thus quality, cost-effectiveness and high-quality services from a single eliminate the interfaces. This will reliability. I see Railion Scandina- source. Besides KombiDan, these give us a valuable time advantage via personally as a tremendous include Hupac and Transfracht. on these routes. In addition to pun challenge in my career, and one in tuality and improved quality stan- which I will be able put to good use How do you intend to increase dards, we will now be able to offer the experience I have acquired to growth in this region? our customers attractive prices. M date in rail logistics. To be competitive with trucking What experience is that? and shipping companies, we will have to improve and expand the Right from the start of my profes- services we provide in our termi- sional career, I‘ve been associated nals in Taulov and Høje Taastrup. with the railways. I was initially Among other things there, we are with DB‘s affiliated company Inter- planning to increase our warehou-

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Rail 07: Swedish paper relies on rail to reach destinations all over Europe

With Rail 07, DB Schenker – in conjunction with its Swedish logistics partner ScandFibre Logi- stics AB (SFL) – has made an efficient addition to its international logistics network. Since the beginning of January, the paper specialists have been conducting end-to-end rail transport ope- rations for the manufacturing company Korsnäs AB, from its factories in Gävle and Frövi to the -Maschen marshalling yard. The new route goes by way of the Oresund Bridge – one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world for combined road and rail traffic.

he new transport schedule is Before switching to the Rail 07 300,000 additional tons Tdesigned to distribute quality scheme, Korsnäs‘ consignments packaging paper by rail from the were for the most part carried Since as long ago as 1999, DB Korsnäs works to destinations all by lorry and by ship. The reor- Schenker and SFL have been suc- over Europe. Together with Scand- ganisation of the shipments has cessfully managing a joint round Fibre Logistics, DB Schenker is re- already paid off for all the parties trip train system, with 21 trains a sponsible for the overall coordina- involved. ‚End-to-end rail trans- week. From Maschen on, SFL makes tion of the shipments. In Denmark port not only speeds things up, use of the international single both partners can draw on the pro- it also saves two transshipment freight car network of DB Schenker duction services of Railion Scan- operations as compared with the and its partner railways. On this dinavia, a recently founded Joint previous logistics system. Paper basis more than a million tons of Venture between DB Schenker and is a sensitive article,‘ explains paper and paper products was the Swedish company Green Cargo Karsten Sachsenröder, Head of the being distributed all over Europe (see page 6 for more about this). Construction Materials, Industrial every year, saving the environment Schenker‘s partner railway ma- and Consumer Goods Market Unit more than 40,000 lorry loads. ‚Kor- nages the transport of the sensitive at DB Schenker. Altogether the rail snäs was already carrying partial packaging paper within Sweden. shipment reduces the transit times quantities by rail. With Rail 07 we The purposes for which it is used of the Korsnäs company‘s paper have now been able to increase the include the production of environ- shipments by 25 percent. The Swe- volume by another 300,000 tons mentally friendly drinks cartons. dish Group also places a particular per annum,‘ says Martin Reiser with The vehicles used are special four- emphasis on the sustainability satisfaction, the responsible Key axle sliding-partition freight cars issue. By changing to rail logistics, Account Manager on DB Schenker‘s supplied by the TRANSWAGGON the company can reduce its carbon Pulp & Paper (Continental) team. company. These can take a maxi- footprint in connection with its DB Schenker now has 49 trains on mum load of up to 60 tons – three distribution operations by as much the move every week on behalf of times as much as an average lorry. as 30 percent. its Swedish1 customer. M

Railways Issue 2/08 11 In Focus

When boats go by rail

Moritz-von-Nassau Barracks in Emmerich, close to the Dutch border, is to be closed down by the middle of the year. In anticipation, the Bundeswehr has sold seven of the motorboats from its stocks there to the Austrian army. DB Schenker won the contract to transport them by rail to Vienna

n addition to other troops in a 260-hp 12-cylinder engine. The Procurement,“ says Klaus Hopbach, IGermany, the 140th Engineer boats have not been used for six Head of Military Logistics in the Battalion stationed in Emmerich is years and were given a complete Chemicals/Mineral Oil/Fertilizers also to be split up and transferred inspection before the sale to ensu- market unit, explaining the official to other barracks. The motorboats re they were in good working order. procedure in such matters. The from the 140th Engineer Battalion order finally went to DB Rail So- that have been sold to the Austrian „As is normally the case with the lutions. In the end, it turned out army are so-called workboats that transport of military equipment, to be extremely complex, since are used for the reconnaissance of the logistics services used to there was no railway siding availa- surface waters. They have a length deliver the boats to Vienna were ble either on the military training of around 7.5 metres, weigh 3.5 specified in advance by the Federal area or close to the barracks. „This tons and each of them is fitted with Office of Defence Technology and meant that the boats first had to

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be driven by truck to Emmerich crane provided by the Bundeswehr. into the army logistics centre lo- railway station,“ explains Hopbach. Under the watchful eyes of the cated in the ARSENAL barracks in „For this job, we took our partner DB Schenker wagon master Klaus Vienna, which has its own siding, TRANSA on board, a company Spankus from the Cargo Centre in where the military equipment was we‘ve always been satisfied with in Duisburg, the soldiers did a pro- immediately unloaded and stored the past for any preliminary work fessional job of securing the load, in the depots. to be done ahead of a special ship- tightening the chains and lashing ment.“ The people at the Deutsche down the tarpaulins covering load Special shipments Bahn subsidiary are experts for for the journey to Vienna. for the military heavy road haulage jobs and have all kinds of state-of-the-art special- On 12 February, everything was The siding at Emmerich station was purpose vehicles for virtually every ready: the boats were sent on a often used for loading heavy whee- possible consignment of goods. two-day journey by rail to Vien- led vehicles and tanks. „We used to na. The low loaders also carried load and unload entire trains trans- The loading of the boots onto the bridge-laying panels from the porting Bundeswehr vehicles,“ Hop- freight wagons was handled by barracks in Speyer, which had also bach recalls. When the barracks the military engineers themselves. been bought by the Austrian army. is finally closed down, there will They also had the use of a loading The shipment was taken directly be no more shipments of military

Railways Issue 2/08 13 In Focus

equipment from Emmerich, but DB result in loading gauge infringe- logistics services. „The tasks we Rail Solutions will still carry out ments, which means that rounda- are required to perform include shipments for the military – parti- bout routes have to be planned. „In taking trains full of troops to mili- cularly when heavy equipment, am- exceptional cases, it can happen tary exercises, for example,“ says munition and explosive materials that the route taken ends up being Hopbach, naming just one of the are to be transported. They are pri- four times the length of the nor- special features of military logis- marily needed for exercises when mal route,“ says Hopbach. „And tics. M international troops take part. „As we often have to travel during the a result, our share of the transport night, on weekends, or use branch DB Rail Solutions business in this segment has seen lines in order not to disrupt normal Chemicals/Mineral Oil/ further growth,“ adds Hopbach. rail services.“ The scheduling of Fertilizers Market Unit military shipments is handled by Klaus Hopbach Military shipments are a particular the military team in the Customer Head of Military Logistics challenge for Deutsche Bahn, be- Service Centre in Duisburg. There phone: +49 (0)203 454-1100 cause the large and bulky vehicles, are also special tasks to be perfor- [email protected] which also include tanks, often med in addition to conventional

Aid for Iraq

As part of a humanitarian aid project for Iraq, Germany is making 276 ambulances and pickup trucks available to the Iraqi army. The military specialists from DB Rail Solutions made sure that the vehicles got to the seaport of Emden safely and right on schedule.

uring the initial stage of the which was held at Easter and this from the Siegelsbach storage faci- Dpreparation work for the lo- time included the wagon masters lity near Heilbronn in Baden-Würt- gistics involved in the shipment, and Bundeswehr transport officers tenberg to the neighbouring freight the account manager responsible, assigned to the project, carefully station in Bad Friedrichshall-Jagst- Michael Feuser from the military examined the route and agreed on feld. The vehicles were driven onto logistics team in the Chemicals/Mi- what was to be done. the waiting freight wagons via an Loading ambulances neral Oil/Fertilizers market unit, end-loading platform. By mid-day, belonging to the met the employees at the Cargo On 11 March, everything was rea- the first train was ready to depart. German military at Centre in Mannheim who were in- dy: a Bundeswehr transport pla- Four trains in all were needed to the Bad Friedrichshall- Jagstfeld freight trans- volved in the shipment to discuss toon drove the vehicles in the early take the ambulances and pickup port centre. the details. At the next meeting, hours of the morning in convoy trucks over the next few days on the shortest route to the seaport of Emden, where they were loaded on the ships that would take them to Iraq by employees of the EVAG seaport handling company, a whol- ly-owned subsidiary of DB AG.

„Due to the direct support of a mo- tivated Bundeswehr transport pla- toon and the smooth cooperation between the wagon masters, the Cargo Centre and the military team in the Customer Service Centre, the entire operation went off without a hitch,“ said a delighted Feuser. „We have demonstrated once again that we can successfully handle large- volume shipments in the shortest possible time.“ More shipments are due to follow very soon from the Bundeswehr storage facility in Sie- gelsbach. M

14 Railways Issue 2/08 A trademark of the SEE- HAFEN -Eisenbahn [PORT OF KIEL Rail- way]: the orange diesel locomotive Photo: SEEHAFEN KIEL-Eisenbahn

Partnership with Shell

DB Schenker and the SEEHAFEN KIEL-Eisenbahn [PORT OF KIEL Railway] have jointly won the contract for the provision of logistics services at the Shell Hemmingstedt bei Heide site in Schleswig-Holstein. The operations involved include shunting and loading, as well as managing transport by rail to the Shell tank depot in Brunsbüttel.

he three-year contract came there has a capacity of 550,000 cu- staff of the rail transport company Tinto force back in January. Ser- bic metres, along with four docking have been employed in the long vices to be supplied by the PORT stations for tankers. From there term and on a significant scale OF KIEL Railway consist in the around 50 percent of the products outside Kiel. ‚Cooperating with a daily shunting, loading and delivery made at the Heide refinery are strong partner like DB Schenker of some 60 tank entering shipped out to big oil depots, con- puts us in a position where we or leaving the operating premises sumers and customers. can extend the range of services of the Shell oil refinery. One of the that our rail arm offers,‘ says Dr familiar orange shunting locomo- ‚The services we were able to offer Dirk Claus, Managing Director of tives will be used for the purpose, along with the PORT OF KIEL Rail- SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co. KG together with specially trained way meant that we were able to [PORT OF KIEL Co. Ltd.], explai- personnel. To facilitate the loading acquire the contract for services to ning the advantages of the part- of the tank railcars, Shell has spe- Shell‘s Heide refinery,“ says Gerd nership. He hopes that this part- cially carried out a comprehensive Lawrenz, Head of DB Schenker‘s nership strategy can be continued renovation of its track network at Cargo Centre in Hamburg. ‚In this on the regional level as well and the Heide refinery. In addition, the way we will be able to improve throughout northern Germany. mineral oil giant has constructed Shell‘s rail freight operations at a new spot loading facility, as a the Kiel site and beyond,‘ he is con- The rail transport arm of the in- result of which the tank cars can vinced. In the past all the logistics frastructure operating company now be loaded either from the top services at the Shell refinery were SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co. KG or from the bottom. The latter me- supplied by the Osthannovera- has many years of experience of thod supports the environmentally nische Eisenbahn [East Hanover shunting services, and is actively recovery of vapours. Railway]. engaged in port operations, as well as working for DB Regio at Kiel Currently an average of five trains Extending the range of services Central Station. In addition the are being assembled for dispatch rail transport company offers in Heide on every working day, For the PORT OF KIEL Railway, this traction services throughout and conveyed by DB Schenker to shunting and loading commission is northern Germany, using its own Shell‘s tank depot at the oil port of an important step in the develop- locomotives. M Brunsbüttel an der Elbe, some 40 ment of its own rail arm, as this is kilometres distant. The tank depot the first time that locomotives and

Railways Issue 2/08 15 In Focus Photo: DB AG/Taubert Photo: DB AG/Taubert

Group head office of Logistics Day DB AG on Potsdamer Platz in Behind the scenes at DB Schenker

Taking its theme „Logistics makes it possible“, the first Logistics Day in Germany was held on 17 April on the initiative of the German Logistics Association (BVL). DB Schenker was also there to give schoolchildren and students a look behind the scenes of a global transport and logistics services provider.

umerous companies, asso- cursions from Group headquarters to final delivery. And in Hamburg- Nciations and organisations on Potsdamer Platz to the Groß- Maschen, among other things, throughout Germany supported beeren container terminal and to the company provided access to the ambitious project, the aim of the Seddin locomotive and freight Europe‘s largest marshalling yard which was to give a wide public a wagon maintenance depot. In Ha- and demonstrated how entire closer look at logistics operations nover, trainees showed visitors the trains are split up into individual and some first-hand experience of numerous logistics operations that freight wagons and then reas- some career profiles in logistics. are bundled in the branch offices sembled into complete trains. This was done by making logistics of DB Schenker Deutschland for car services the focus of attention for manufacturer VW. In Duisburg, the The nationwide Logistics Day was a one day. DB Schenker set up an ex- schoolchildren and students found great success, and both organisers citing nationwide programme that out how containers are transferred and visitors have now agreed that was enthusiastically received by from train to truck in a container it should take place every year. M the young visitors. terminal. In , schoolchildren were shown how a consignment of In Berlin, the transport and logis- freight is processed by a freight tics services provider organised ex- forwarder – from initial collection

DB Schenker at IFAT

to trade visitors, DB Schenker in both the number of visitors and very three years, IFAT will again be represented there exhibitors is also expected this E– the International Trade on its own stand. year to the world‘s largest environ- Fair for Water, Sewage, Re- mental trade fair. Compared with fuse and Recycling – is held More than 2,000 exhibitors from the last event, the space assigned at Munich Trade Fair centre. 36 countries and 109,000 trade vi- to exhibitors alone has increased When the trade fair is once sitors from 166 countries attended by 22,000 square metres to a total again opened from 5 to 9 May the last IFAT in 2005. An increase of 192,000 square metres.

16 Railways Issue 2/08 Tested and certified

In April last year DB Schenker became the first European freight railway to receive HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) certification. This is an important quality manage- ment system in the foodstuffs and animal feeds industry. At the end of January the certificate was extended.

ACCP was originally developed which is able to provide customers is another important quality Hfor the foodstuff‘s industry, with information on a regular basis management system in the Europe- and supports companies in their about the load previously carried, an animal feeds industry. Through internal control mechanisms for ex- and about the cleaning of the the introduction of the HACCP cluding any health hazards to man vehicles if required. A minimum system, DB Schenker created the and beast. Enjoying international frequency for internal cleaning has basis for meeting the requirements recognition, the HACCP standard also been defined, and rules for the of GMP-certified customers. is a component in practically all cleaning procedure laid down. quality management systems in the foodstuffs, grain and animal feed sectors. In this case it testifies to the high quality of DB Schenker‘s transport of foodstuffs by rail. The audit was held at the freight car maintenance centre in Mannheim, at the Customer Service Centre in Duisburg and at Railion‘s head office in Mainz – also the base of the rail freight transport arm of DB Schenker. The audit was carried out by SGS-ICS Gesellschaft für Zertifizierungen m.b.H. [SGS-ICS Certification Company Ltd.].

‚We are proud of the fact that in the entire course of the audit no deviations were detected,‘ says Hans-Heiner Undorf, Key Account Manager responsible for foodstuffs and animal feeds in the Cons- truction Materials, Industrial and Consumer Goods market unit. ‚On the contrary – the certificate has confirmed that our cross-depart- mental HACCP team has succeeded in making improvements in the Consistent quality management ‚Although we have reason to be Special wagons for the system since it was first introdu- across the board very well satisfied with our per- transport of agricultural ced.“ These included the creation formance to date, we aim to go on products: the Tagnoos 898 has a food-safe internal of a dedicated HACCP database, The shipment of foodstuffs has improving all the time,‘ stresses the coating of stainless steel, traditionally ranked high with head of the market unit, Karsten which measures up to the DB Schenker. In the year 2006 Sachsenröder. ‚Besides the ongoing highest hygienic stan- Schenker‘s existing Integrated supervision of freight wagons, we dards. Management System was extended hope to make still further improve- by the addition of a management ments in our management system, At DB Schenker, the Construction system for hygiene in connection so that our customers can continue Materials, Industrial and Con- with food stuffs and animal feeds, to rest easy.‘ M sumer Goods market unit is the and at the same time the HACCP specialist for the environmental- system was implemented throug- DB Schenker ly-compatible transport by rail of hout the company. In parallel to Construction Materials, industrial and urban waste, recyc- this, DB Schenker was certified as Industrial and Consumer Goods ling and clean-up of contaminated complying with the GMP B4 quality Market Unit sites. The market unit will be management system for animal Hans-Heiner Undorf presenting its services in Hall B1, feed . GMP stands for phone: +49 (0)6131 15-61683 on Stand 200. M Good Manufacturing Practice. This [email protected]

Railways Issue 2/08 17 In Focus Ph oto: ENERCON Ph oto: ENERCON

18 Railways Issue 2/08 Fresh wind blowing for DB Schenker

Twelve years ago exactly, the Abelitz-Aurich line in East Frisia was closed down. To provide rail transport for the rotor blades and components in Aurich, the wind turbine manufacturer ENERCON arranged for the line to be reactivated. The official opening ceremony took place on 4 April. DB Schenker won the contract to handle the rail operations.

he Abelitz-Aurich railway line employs more than 10,000 people the scenes at the production pro- Tis a single-track line some 15 worldwide. In Germany alone, the- cesses in the plant. In addition to kilometres in length. It connects re are three production plants – in ENERCON‘s Managing Director, the Abelitz depot with Aurich and Aurich, Magdeburg and Emden. Dr. Aloys Wobben, Berend Voss, was once part of the East Frisian Managing Director of EAE, and the railway that ran along the coast. Rotor blades take the train suppliers, there were a number of While passenger services were high-ranking representatives of closed down in 1967, rail freight ENERCON opened up its own politics at the ceremony. These transport continued until 1996. To railway siding in Aurich to provi- included The Premier of Lower ensure environmentally-compatible de shipments by rail. Before this Saxony, Christian Wulff, who gave rail operations, ENERCON, as the took place, however, the company the opening speech, and President largest private investor, together had already signed two contracts of the State Parliament, Hermann with the Aurich municipal authori- with DB Schenker: on the one Dinkla. Martin Wessel and Astrid ties, organised the renovation work hand, key components were to be Dieckow, head of regional sales and provided some two million transported on flat wagons in the in Halle, were also present at the for this purpose. Before the company‘s own containers from its ceremony. project got underway, the wind tur- Magdeburg plant to Aurich. In ad- bine manufacturer, together with dition, DB‘s logistics company was There was another key event for local companies and the municipal to transport control cabinets, sheet ENERCON taking place at the same authorities of Aurich and Emden, steel, cables, wires and gears from time: in nearby Südbrookmerland- including the district authorities of the component suppliers to Aurich Georgsheil, which lies on the Abe- Aurich, set up the Aurich-Emden and Magdeburg. The rotor blades, litz-Aurich line, the ground-brea- railway company which are over 40 metres long, king ceremony for ENERCON‘s new (EAE). This is now the owner of the were also to be transported on low East Frisia casting centre, where line, although the line will be ope- loaders to the seaport of Emden in future high-quality nodular cast rated by the East Frisia Oldenburg 30 kilometres away for export parts, such as mainframes, rotor railway company (e.g.o.o.). overseas. „We also planning to take blade adapters, rotor hubs and special shipments of oversized loa- kingpins will be produced. „The „Another argument for reviving the ds for ENERCON to Emden. That‘s raw materials needed for the cas- rail services was that, due to the a very demanding and highly inte- ting plant – around 20,000 tons of increase in road traffic, obtaining resting assignment,“ adds Martin aggregate and high-grade residual permission to transport the loads Wessel, the head of regional sales sheet metal – are also to be trans- by road – which in most cases were at DB Schenker in Bremen. Then, ported by us,“ adds Wessel. oversized loads – was becoming there are hubs, generators and increasing difficult,“ says Ulrich gondolas – the entire range of pro- „DB Schenker will be one of the Neundlinger, the man at ENER- ducts in fact. „For next year alone, most important logistics providers CON responsible for reactivating we are anticipating a transport vo- for us in future. We intend to ex- the line, explaining the company‘s lume of around 3,000 wagonloads,“ pand the use of rail transport ser- decision in favour of rail. Since it he says, looking ahead. vices even more, so that they will was founded in 1984, the company account for a large part of our total is one the industry‘s key drivers Inauguration ceremony transport services,“ says a confi- of innovation. ENERCON‘s new E- with VIPs dent Neundlinger M 126/6 MW model finally went into operation on the Rysumer Nacken To mark the reopening of the DB Schenker near Emden at the end of Novem- Abelitz-Aurich line, there was a Martin Wessel ber. With a rotor diameter of 127 large celebration on 4 April, fol- phone: +49 (0)421 221-2305 metres, a hub height of 135 metres lowed two days later by an open [email protected] and a rated output of 6 megawatts, day event in Aurich‘s northern it is currently the world‘s most industrial estate, during which the powerful wind turbine (see photo wind turbine manufacturer gave on page 18). The company now visitors a fascinating look behind

Railways Issue 2/08 19 In Foc us

Photo: TRANSA while DB Schenker coordinates the delivery of cases. „With TRANSA and Schenker, we have acquired strong partners. Particularly in the combination of services they provi- de, we obtain key synergy effects,“ says Johannes Busch, head of logi- stics at Lorenz Snack-World, exp- laining why the company decided to go with the two logistics service providers.

The nation-wide delivery of snacks takes place from two locations each for both TRANSA and DB Palettes of snacks Schenker: the TRANSA office in Coburg organises deliveries throug- hout Germany for the Lorenz plants Deutsche Bahn‘s subsidiary TRANSA and DB Schenker are in Kreba (Saxony) and Neunburg delivering products manufactured by Lorenz Snack-World to vorm Wald (Upper Palatinate). supermarkets throughout Germany. Every day, trucks carrying The TRANSA location in Hanover picks up its palettes from the snack as many as 500 palettes of crisps, crackers and salted sticks producer‘s plant in Hankensbüttel leave the premises of the snack producer in Neunburg vorm (Lower Saxony) and delivers them Wald, Kreba and Hankensbüttel. to Baden-Württemberg and Bava- ria, while the Schenker locations he products are driven to the events throughout the country, in Hanover and Regensburg are Tcentral and regional ware- with TRANSA responsible for a responsible for case deliveries from houses of the large food discoun- major portion of the complete and the Lorenz plants in Lower Saxony ter, to retailers, or even to major partial loads delivered in Germany, and the Upper Palatinate. M

Takeover confirmed

On 19 March the takeover of Transportes Ferroviarios Especiales (Transfesa) by Deutsche Bahn AG became legally effective. The EU Commission has given its consent to Deutsche Bahn‘s purchase of a majority share in the Spanish transport and logistics company.

B had already acquired Trans- 1943, among its other activities two integrated networks, custo- Dfesa last summer. ‚This con- Transfesa has specialised in auto- mers will in future be able to book trolling interest strengthens our motive and bulk goods transport. uninterrupted train services to strategic commitment in the cor- With its 1100 members of staff and Great Britain and Spain. Transfesa ridors of Western European trans- 7900 special freight cars, the com- manager Luis del Campo also sees port, and especially on the Iberian pany is one of the biggest internati- the takeover as an opportunity for peninsula,‘ says Dr Norbert Bensel, onally active transport and logistic continuing his international stra- Member of DB AG‘s Management companies in Spain. tegy: ‚We aim to improve our ser- Board for Transport and Logistics. vices, especially those going to and ‚For our customers it means above By absorbing Transfesa and English from south-, and to all an extension of our powerful Eu- Welsh & Scottish Railway Holding develop new services in conjunc- ropean network for the automotive Limited (EWS), acquired in the tion.‘ The -based company industry.‘ Interesting from Deut- autumn of 2007, Deutsche Bahn was unable to achieve the growth sche Bahn‘s point of view in parti- hopes in the middle term to incre- it aspired to in recent years, and cular are the axle change facilities ase the market share of rail in the so hopes that the majority interest between France and Spain, and the European transport market, as well of Deutsche Bahn will increase its access offered to the south-west as improving the quality of the ser- market share, above all in interna- corridor. Since being founded in vices offered. With the help of the tional transport operations. M

20 Railways Issue 2/08 New structure for Cargo Centres CZ Hamburg

Three years ago, DB Schenker introduced a completely new Maschen

planning and workflow management system for the cargo cen- Bremen CZ Berlin tres known as PRP (Project Redesign Production). To provide even more flexibility and proximity to the customer, the CZ Hannover structure of the Cargo Centres required further modification.

CZ Duisburg y reducing the number of in- of the division for single wagon CZ Hagen Bterfaces and improving the transport and combine transport at CZ Halle Köln process focus in particular, DB Railion Deutschland AG. Schenker‘s intention is to improve the quality of its services even DB Schenker has also created new CZ Frankfurt further. To date, 15 cargo centres departmental structures: the plan- located throughout Germany will ning and control departments, for Saarbrücken CZ Nürnberg now be reduced to just ten (see example, are now combined under CZ Mannheim map). The two cargo centres in the new name of „Services Manage- Hamburg have been merged into ment“ and the scheduling of staff one, as is the case with Bremen, deployment has now been integra- Stuttgart Cologne, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart, ted into the operational units and

where the cargo centres have mer- becomes part of the „Operational CZ München ged with their larger neighbouring Management“ department. To rein- centres. The operational and admi- force the local management team nistrative functions at the five for- at the cargo centres, there is now mer cargo centres, however, will be a standard ruling on deputising. been set up. „By providing clear retained. „The aim is to bundle the In addition, to provide support for local process and management re- current location of tasks where appropriate for time heads of the cargo centres to cover sponsibility, we are making the car- Cargo Centres and cost reasons, and to regionalise special regional circumstances, staff go centres fit for the future,“ says Former where necessary to meet customer positions for special tasks – such as Fricke, summarising the changes Cargo Zentren needs,“ explains Eckart Fricke, head in ports and for key accounts – have that have been made. M

DB Schenker and TRANSA: A shared office in Duisburg

n 1 March DB Schenker and directly at the source. This means OTRANSA opened a shared that the entire service range of DB office at the Customer Service Schenker and TRANSA is imme- Centre in Duisburg. The object is diately available. The new office to deal with incoming customer is manned by Martin Wunderlich enquiries within the entire range of TRANSA, and Florian Bäcker of services offered by both part- of DB Schenker. Both members of ners. staff deal with enquiries where the customer needs additional ‚With this shared office we are logistics services as a supplement making another important step to European rail transport. This towards making the entire range puts all the expertise of DB Schen- of DB Schenker‘s services available ker at the customer‘s disposal. At throughout Europe on an ad hoc the same time DB Schenker offers the line sidings become temporarily Florian Bäcker (left) and basis,‘ says Hans Löffert, Managing customers lorry transport as an inaccessible. M Martin Wunderlich Director of TRANSA. It was a joint alternative. decision by him and Dr Jörg Hilker, DB Schenker Head of Regional Distribution / In addition, customers of DB Customer Service Centre Marketing Rail, to set up the office. Schenker can give TRANSA full Florian Bäcker Jens Küter, Head of the Customer responsibility for handling their phone: +49 (0)203 4542623 Service Centre, likewise welcomed consignments under the auspices of [email protected] the decision. an emergency management system. This may be the case, for example, Martin Wunderlich The incoming customer enquiries if freight cars cannot be supplied phone: +49 (0)203 4542630 and orders can now be processed in time, or if because of work on [email protected]

Railways Issue 2/08 21 Partner: DB Intermodal

Trans-Eurasia Logistics: Container shipments to Russia from a single source

At the beginning of March Intermodal and the Russian state railway RZD launched a new joint venture in Berlin under the name of Trans-Eurasia Logistics, together with their partners Polzug, Kombiverkehr and Transcontainer. The aim of the new company is to offer all-round container transport services between Western Europe and Russia from a single source.

Jürgens, Head of the Intermodal business unit. With the help of the operators Polzug and Kombiver- kehr, the new company provides uninterrupted shipments from Ger- many to Russia. This is based on a system of shuttle trains coming from the main economic centres of Germany, which are combined into regularly scheduled block trains going to . It works the same way in reverse, with loads from Russia being brought to Brest, on the border between and Belarus, and then fed into the networks of the two operators to continue in the direction of Wes- tern Europe. he partners had already signed and Logistics. He added that this Tthe contract establishing the forms a good basis for founding Besides pure transport services, joint venture, which has its head another joint venture with RZD and Trans-Eurasia Logistics hopes in fu- office in Berlin, last July. But it was the Chinese national railway, with a ture also to offer delivery services not until March 2008 that the car- view to extending transport opera- incorporating pre-carriage and on- tel authorities gave their consent. tions to China. ward carriage, as well as tracking ‚The new joint venture will make and tracing and the management rail freight transport on the highly ‚Trans-Eurasia Logistics will help of customs formalities. In the long attractive Russian axis even more us to offer our customers reliable term other services as well, like competitive,‘ said Dr Norbert Ben- and regular shipments on the axis warehousing for example, should sel, Member of Deutsche Bahn‘s between Germany and Russia,‘ is be added. M Management Board for Transport the confident belief of Dr Sebastian

New link through the Channel Tunnel

ince the beginning of March, its destination the following day. The service is being provided by the SDB‘s subsidiary English Welsh David Kerr, EWS EWS Commercial UK‘s largest rail freight operator, & Scottish Railway Holding Ltd. Director, sees the new link as an EWS, which has a member of Deut- (EWS) has been offering intermo- important contribution to redu- sche Bah AG since its acquisition dal services between Duisburg cing transport‘s carbon footprint in autumn 2007. Intermodal, the and Manchester through the and an additional service for its specialist for combined transport Channel Tunnel. The trains provi- customers: „With the new link, we services, has a major involvement in de services five times a week in are offering our customers and the implementation of this project. both directions and take just one partners the possibility of sending With the integration of the services day for the entire journey. goods overnight direct, while at the provided by EWS and linking up same time bypassing the heavily the UK into the DB‘s continental The first container train left the congested trunk roads, motorways transport network, Deutsche Bahn Port of Duisburg at six o‘clock in and seaports. The environment will is further expanding its position as the morning of 4 March 2008 on its also benefit from the significantly the leading international provider of way to Manchester and arrives at reduced CO2 emissions.“ mobility and logistics services. M

22 Railways Issue 2/08 Trans-Eurasia Logistics: Container shipments to Russia

from a single source Photo: DB AG/Busse

AirCargoExpress: Fly by rail

DHL has set up a new European air cargo hub at Leipzig/Halle airport that has already commenced operations. To provide a fast rail link to Frankfurt Airport, the Deutsche Post subsidiary, in collaboration with Intermodal, has launched AirCargoExpress. The new train system is scheduled to start full commercial operations this year.

he partners involved in AirCar- trains to Leipzig/Halle will depart Lufthansa Cargo on the Express TgoExpress are DHL and Inter- at 10:00 pm. In less than five hours train between Frankfurt and Leip- modal, together with the operator - at around 2:30 am - they will ar- zig/Halle. Kombiverkehr, wagon specialists rive at their final destinations. „Six BTS Kombiwaggon (BTS K) and round trips a week have been sche- DHL and DB are currently working intermodal terminal specialists duled to start with, and an increase to speed up the AirCargoExpress Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft in frequency is already planned,“ even further. This will be made Schiene-Straße (DUSS) mbH. BTS Günst explains. possible, on the one hand, by the K provides the containers used planned construction of new lines for the shipments, DUSS organises Key air freight hub on which the trains will be able tra- the transhipment of the goods and vel even faster. And the use of new Kombiverkehr is the local operator, In future, Leipzig/Halle - next to equipment has also been planned. while Intermodal provides the trac- Hong Kong and Wilmington in Ohio A pre-production wagon, for exa- tion for the trains. „We have done - will be one of DHL‘s three key air mple, has already been built that a lot to get this consortium up freight hubs. An important element will make top speeds of up to 200 and running,“ stresses Karl-Heinz in the transport network is the km/h on rail freight services will be Günst. As the project manager at new Leipzig/Halle airport (LUB), possible. Intermodal, his job is to make sure located right next to the DHL hub. that the work performed by the Its transhipment facilities consist „The collaboration with DB AG is partners runs smoothly. „And we‘ve of two loading tracks with a useful on a partnership basis and focu- managed to do it all very well so length of 350 metres, and a loop sed on the future. When the new far,“ he adds. line. The tracks are electrified and technology is finally implemented have a direct connection to the in the AirCargoExpress, then in The AirCargoExpress will initially Halle-Leipzig line, so that the Air- terms of speed we will have a have a train length of up to 270 CargoExpress can depart without genuine alternative on short-haul metres a top speed of 140 km/h. delay. The airport operator Fraport journeys to both the airlines and Around 32 loading units are to be has also built a transhipment ter- road transport,“ says Andreas hauled per train. Much like the Par- minal for intermodal traffic in Car- Brockmann, team manager ope- cel Intercity (PIC) express train, go City South at Frankfurt Airport. rations, DHL Hub Leipzig GmbH, the new high-speed train will also The Fraport subsidiary, Fraport delighted at the prospect. But he‘s reach its destinations overnight Cargo Services, is responsible there well aware that there is still a lot faster than would be possibly by for loading and unloading trains. to be done by all those involved truck. Both the southbound trains Among other things, air cargo is before the project really gets off to Frankfurt and the northbound also to be transported in future by the ground. M

Railways Issue 2/08 23 International Photo: Railog

Heavyweight loads

The Special Transport division of DB Schenker in Hagen and Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Railog GmbH recently gave an impressive demonstration of their effective partnership in heavyweight transport operations. All as according to plan, an inductor weighing 120 tons has been carried by rail and by ship from the E.ON power station in Datteln to the Swedish company GenerPro AB in Västerås.

easuring nearly 14 metres in Together with the intrinsic weight coordination overall. The responsi- Mlength, the inductor at the of the low-bed Uaais 810 category bilities of the rail logistics company plant of the power supply company freight cars, the inductor – which included the technical organisation in North Rhine-Westphalia serves had been secured on a rack for of the transport, application for to produce 16,70 Hz traction pow- shipment, and wrapped in plastic the requisite permissions, drawing er – exactly the power frequency film – weighed in at a hefty 210 up an operational timetable and that is required for rail transport tons. It would hardly have been ordering the wagons. in Germany. The massive inductor possible to convey such a weight was in need of repair, and had to by road without having to obtain An exceptional challenge be sent back to the manufacturer, numerous special authorisations. the GenerPro company, for main- „By rail, on the other hand, we On 25 February DB Schenker‘s tenance. Of the possible means of could ship the load without a lot special train set off from Datteln, transport, the combination of rail of bureaucratic complications. In carrying its heavy load, punctually and ship recommended itself as the spite of the size of the inductor it at 10.00 am. The goods were ship- best alternative. ‚On this basis we was not an out-of-gauge consign- ped without incident via Reckling- could keep precisely to our schedu- ment, nor do big weights present hausen, Münster, Lengerich and le, in spite of all the obstacles that a problem for rail transport gene- Hamburg to the Port of Rostock, we had to negotiate – there was an rally speaking,‘ Schäfer continues. which the train reached on the impassable bridge in Sweden, for Other companies involved in the dot of midnight. Exact adherence example, that we had to get around project, besides DB Schenker, were to the timetable was necessary, somehow. With lorry transport this Schenker‘s partner railway Green because the specialists from Railog would have involved a considerable Cargo and the German-Danish and DB Schenker were faced with loss of time,“ explains Gert Schäfer, ferry company Scandlines. Railog an exceptional challenge at this special transport expert at Railog. however was responsible for the point: in order to get the inductor

24 Railways Issue 2/08 onto the ferry for the sea crossing took on responsibility for the spe- nomical logistics solution,“ Schäfer to the Swedish port of Trelleborg, cial consignment and delivered the concludes, with some pride. At the the tidal situation had to be care- last component safely to the stati- end of August, when the inductor fully taken into account. This was on in Västerås. Finally Bombardier is due to be shipped back from because the water level was crucial saw to the onward carriage of the the Swedish manufacturer to the to the articulation angle of the goods and provided the low-bed E.ON‘s Datteln plant, the partners ferry bridge. One degree was the wagon at the GenerPro siding. ‚To- will once again be able to show maximum permissible if it was to gether with DB Schenker and our how well they work together M be possible to cross the bridge with other partners, we have been able such a heavy load at all. to demonstrate that as an inter- Railog GmbH national team we have absolutely Gert Schäfer After the ferry had been successful- no problem with the transport of phone: +49 (0)6107 509-251 ly loaded, it crossed to Trelleborg heavy loads, while always being in [email protected] next morning, where Green Cargo a position to provide the most eco-

Railog: High speed train traverses seven countries

Deutsche Bahn‘s subsidiary Railog is currently providing rail transport of a special kind for the Spanish manufacturing company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) [Construction and Maintenance of Rolling Stock plc]. Twelve high speed trains in all are being transferred from CAF‘s Spanish plant to Turkey. Seven countries and seven railways are involved in the operation.

he first train embarked on its GPS location system. This makes it tion units and four freight cars. The Tlengthy trip back in November possible to determine the location route goes through France, Switzer- of last year; the second followed of the train at any time, as well as land, , Hungary, Serbia and on 22 March 2008. For Railog the sending a daily report on the status Bulgaria and ends at the Bosporus, project is a particular challenge, of the shipment. where a team consisting of Railog as in view of the broad gauge that staff and representatives of the Tur- is used in Spain, the train‘s compo- Each of the twelve trains, which kish national railway will load the nents must first of all be carried to are to be delivered to the Turkish trains onto a ferry. This will then Hendaye in France by lorry. Only national railway by the end of 2008, deliver them to their final destinati- there will the individual parts be consists of six carriages, two trac- on, Haydarpas near Istanbul. M assembled and got onto the track.

Manfred Bernleither, Head of Eu- ropean Rail Transport at Railog in Austria, points to the special strengths of the rail logistics com- pany: „In rail transport operations of this nature, we can rely on our many years of experience of the market and our specialist experti- se. Finally, though, what impresses our customers is that we have staff who speak their own language in the various countries involved.“ Railog‘s branch offices in all the countries maintain close contact with the national railway compa- nies, while working with Railog in Austria, which is centrally respon- sible for the coordination of the project, in managing the complete shipment and the customs forma- lities at borders. Another service from which CAF benefits is the Photo: Railog

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Peine-Salzgitter Transport Company: Photo: VPS Blue draught horses for the steel industry

The bright blue locomotives have been the trademark of Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter (VPS) for thirty years. The rail company principally carries raw materials and finished products for the steel technology concern Salzgitter AG. At the same time it is one of DB Schenker‘s big- gest partners in Germany.

he close partnership between this, the company‘s head office in ‚We carry something like 36 million ‚TDB Schenker and VPS has Salzgitter-Hallendorf also operates tons every year – with the current been historically determined by non-public connecting railways high demand for steel, it‘s actually the latter‘s double function, as a for the companies of the Salzgit- quite a bit more than that. This classic non-federal railway and ter Group in Ilsenburg, Peine and makes us one of the five most im- as the plant railway of Salzgitter Salzgitter. Whether it is a matter portant rail companies in Germany.‘ AG,‘ explains Thomas Hünewinkel, of incoming raw materials like ore, Team Leader for Competition, Co- limestone, coal and scrap, or of Steel transport operation and Infrastructure at DB raw steel and finished products with a long tradition Schenker. As the legal successor of for the steel-processing industry, Peiner und Salzgitterer Eisenbahn shipments are generally based on Iron ore has been processed at [the Peine and Salzgitter Railway], the close partnership between DB Peine since as long ago as 1858. VPS has its own publicly accessible Schenker and VPS. A considerable Based on the foundation of new infrastructure of around 360 ki- volume of transport is involved, as companies and subsequent mer- lometres of track in the extended Uwe Harder, Head of Long Distan- gers, the Ilseder Hütte metal works Peine-Salzgitter region. Besides ce Transport at VPS, emphasises: developed into Salzgitter AG. With

26 Railways Issue 2/08 an annual production quota of

Peine-Salzgitter Transport Company: Photo: VPS more than 7 million tons of raw steel, the Salzgitter Group is one of the leading steel technology en- Blue draught horses terprises in Europe. Right up to the present day, a significant part of the Group‘s steel production is con- for the steel industry centrated on the region north of the Harz. Accordingly the key tasks of VPS include comprehensive in- plant and intra-plant transport ope- rations for the Group‘s subsidiaries – Salzgitter Flachstahl [Salzgitter Flat Steel], Ilsenburger Grobblech [Ilsenburg Heavy Plate] and Peiner Träger [Peine Girders] – as well as the shipment of raw materials and finished products to and from DB Schenker‘s transfer stations in Bed- dingen-Salzgitter and Peine.

The geographical proximity of Germany‘s Midland Canal is ano- ther important factor for the rail Photo: VPS company‘s offer of integrated logistics services. As the operator of the inland harbours of Peine VPS an extremely valuable regio- Another aspect of the partnership With an annual transport and Salzgitter, VPS maintains nal partner for DB Schenker,‘ says with DB Schenker is the serving of volume of something transshipment facilities for the Hünewinkel, underlining the tradi- private sidings in the local catch- like 36 million tons, VPS is one of the most loading of goods from a wide range tionally good relationship between ment area – for example those of important rail companies of industries – mining, agricul- the two companies. Since as long the wheelset plant in Ilsenburg or in Germany ture, chemicals and mineral oils. ago as the end of the eighties VPS of the Rautenbach-Guss company Typical products of Salzgitter AG, has been carrying out what are in Wernigerode. Harder sums up: like hot-rolled coils and cast steel known as ‚cooperative transport ‚We currently supply around two slabs, also leave from here for the operations‘, on the instructions of thirds of our rail freight transport international ports of Hamburg and Deutsche Bahn and using its track services on our own infrastructure, Bremerhaven. network. This principally involves and about a third in partnership providing the locomotives and per- with other rail companies, DB A freight transport service sonnel. For example, VPS is invol- Schenker in particular.‘ provider specialising in steel ved in supplying ore to Salzgitter AG from the Port of Hamburg, and Sustainable growth a priority ‚Many years of experience with the in Salzgitter AG‘s steel shipments products of the steel industry make going to the industrial Ruhr. The careful extension of the company‘s operating resources should continue to strengthen Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter the position of VPS as a regional freight service supplier. In recent in figures years there have been far-ranging investments in rolling stock, ware- Year founded 1972 house facilities and technology for the transshipment of goods. VPS Employees ca. 750 uses some 1600 wagons to serve Salzgitter AG‘s plants alone, and Diesel locomotives 60 rents additional wagons when re- quired. This makes it possible for (including shunting locomotives: 46) VPS to take on further cooperative transport projects as well. M Electrical locomotives 2

Length of own track network 360 kilometres

Turnover 2006 88,5 million euros

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