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 transport 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 Deutsche Bahn‘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 10-ton in- due to their weight and volume are particularly ductor from the E.ON power plant in Datteln, suited to rail transport. In order to increase North-Rhine Westphalia to GenerPro, the ma- rail‘s share of this business and to enhance the nufacturer, in Västerås, Sweden. 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 4. rail freight carrier Green Cargo, 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 1 to 14. Credits Published by: Railion Deutschland AG Responsible for content: Dr. Jörg Hilker, Leiter Regionalvertrieb/Marketing Rail, Annette Struth Editorial work: Railion Deutschland AG, Marketing Rail, Eva Leonhardt Rheinstraße , 55116 Mainz, phone: +49 (0)6131 15-60196, fax: +49 (0)6131 15-61060 email: [email protected], internet: www.railion.com Editorial and technical realisation: Trimedia Communications Deutschland GmbH, Hanauer Landstraße 175–179, 60314 Frankfurt am Main Title page: Sund & Baelt Copyright: © by Railion Deutschland AG All rights reserved. In particular distribution rights, reprinting of text and images, translation into other languages, and any reproduction, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording on microfilm, and transmission by radio and television for all published articles, including all images. Railways Issue /08 Contents 0 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 1 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 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 0 Palettes of snacks Channel Tunnel 11 Swedish paper travels Transfesa: 3 AirCargoExpress: by rail throughout Europe takeover confirmed Fly by rail In Focus International 1 When boats go by rail 4 Heavy load 5 Railog: High-speed through seven countries Special Features 6 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 Vienna. Railways Issue /08 3 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 4 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.