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Railways 05/2011 THe DB SCHeNKeR RAIL CUSTOMeR MAGAZINe NO. 05 | 11 Always on duty Wojciech Witkowski, welder at DB Schenker Rail Polska’s Pyskowice maintenance plant Page 08 2011/2012 CHINA SHUTTLE JACOBS COFFEE TRAIN What has been! Daily service for Luxury aroma What is to come? BMW to Shenyang from Berlin Page 18 Page 26 Page 30 SuPer heroeS elding is hard work and it demands responsibility. But when you look at the result of your work, it fills you with pride and pleasure.” Those are the words Wof our colleague Wojciech Witkowski, a welder at the Pyskowice mainte- nance works operated by DB Schenker Rail Polska. The fact that the railway service was a “rough, hard, man’s job”, as the Bundesbahn officially stated in 1954, didn’t put Julia Bader off: The young shunting engine driver from Ludwigshafen was initially met with scepticism from her male colleagues, who wondered “whether I could do it too. I’ve con- vinced them all since then that I can.” This is the mould from which the people of DB Schenker Rail are made. After the themes that the first four issues of railways this year have focused on, our title story for the end of the year intentionally centres on the people who keep the massive wheels of rail freight transport turning: thousands of people who will even work through the coming holiday period. 6A Locomotives of DB Today, DB Schenker Rail has a market share of 26.5 per cent, making it far and away Dieselhydraulik Lok r Class 254 D DrG Class4D e94, DB Class 194, D Europe’s market leader. However, we won’t be resting and will be making every effort in DB Baureihe V90 2012 to improve service and quality and to remain a reliable partner for trade and industry. BUILT TO LAST: The Class 194s were extremely sturdy, with some staying THANK YOU to our customers for placing your trust in your partner, DB Schenker Rail! in service for as long as 50 years. Several are still operable to this day thanks THANK YOU to our readers for your interest and diverse feedback! to various museums and clubs. THANK YOU to our colleagues for their professional hard work for our customers! Scholz, Wiki05/Wikipedia The “German Crocodile” kW/PS: 800/1100 Anzugskraft: 201 kN Hans-Peter Happy New Year for 2012! Total Fleet (DB): 124 Launch:Motoren: 1940-1956 4 Dienstmasse: 80,0 t The distinctive Class 194 got its nickname diverse Power:km/h: 3,240 kW Manufacturer: from the even more famous (and even ol- Photos: 80 Tankinhalt: / 3000 l Tractive effort: 363 kN der) “Swiss Crocodile”. In the East German Best regards, Speed:Länge: 100 km/h14 m Achsformel: B’B’ 18.6 m Reichsbahn, it was also known as the “Iron Koch Your railways Editorial Team Bauzeit: 1970-92121 t Length: Weight: Radsatzmasse: 20,0 t Pig” (Eisenschwein). It had six axles, could 18,6 m Withdrawn from service SpecialAnzahl: features: 408 Zugheizung: – pull 1,000-tonne freight trains up 1.6% Łukasz between 1991 and 1995 Hersteller: MaK, Jung-Jungenthal, Krupp, gradients at 50 km/h, and was also fre- freight train locomotives are 30 per cent : Germany, Austria CountriesHenschel, of Operation Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) quently used as a bank engine on the lighter than the legendary 194, and deliver steep lines of southern Germany. Modern twice as much power. photo: Title 02 | railways railways | 03 Content Cover Story: 08 Always on duty well-qualified professionals with diverse qualifications ensure that dB schenker rail’s europe-wide network never comes to a standstill both day and night. markets & innovation 18 What has been! what is to come? 38 London direct Three DB Schenker Rail managers and cus- DB Schenker Rail (UK) now operates com- AlwAys tomers Daimler, Arcelor Mittal, Danone Wa- mercial freight transport operations from on ters UK, and Lafarge take stock and assess Central Europe, with through trains going duty the prospects for 2012 all the way to the UK 40 Rail transport with wind Customers & projects and hydroelectric power DeuCon becomes the first Kombiverkehr 26 Trans-eurasian car shipment customer to use the new Eco Plus service DB Schenker Rail has established a daily for transporting shipments with zero rail connection to China for BMW CO2 emissions 29 Ukrainian alternative 41 Capacities increased on the sound DB Schenker Rail has developed an alter- DB Schenker Rail Danmark has made sub- native route via Ukraine for VW shipments stantial investments in its intermodal con- from Slovakia to Russia tainer terminal in Høje-Taastrup, near Copenhagen 30 Luxury aroma from Berlin Kraft Foods marked the 50th birthday of 42 Gap filled in rotterdam its Jacobs coffee-roasting plant in Berlin Tank containers from overseas can now be with a coffee excursion by rail fed directly into the DB single wagon load system 32 Sparkling wine shuttle from Catalonia Freixenet sparkling wine comes to Germa- ny for the festive season by rail Company & people 35 Railport replaces loading yard 43 Progress through dialogue In Nuremberg, companies can now imple- The second continental conference and the ment up-to-date and environmentally western ports conference dealt with the friendly logistics concepts current challenges facing the intermodal segment and the prospects for its develop- 36 Business is booming ment 02 super heroes DB Schenker Rail transports vegetable oils and diesel for biofuel manufacturer Tecosol 44 Desert logistics 06 news A special exhibition at the DB Museum in 37 Breaking down boundaries Nuremberg documents the history of camel Reeg Andreas Straub, 46 on the move An innovative production concept makes trains – and modern-day rail projects in TFG Transfracht’s container transport op- Arabia Thomas spArkling wine 47 save the date erations in seaport-hinterland traffic more shuttle from & imprint efficient Photos: CAtAloniA 04 | railways railways | 05 NEWS THORNABY/UNITEDKINGDOM SEcure salt supplies With the shifting of transport operations from road to rail, the distribu- OFFENBAcH/GERMANY tion of supplies of road salt is set to become more reliable and environ- TRANSA is becoming a full-load specialist mentally friendly in the UK. In cooperation with British salt and grit distributor Nationwide Gritting and Salt Supplies, and port operator DB Schenker Logistics is to combine its rail-oriented full-load activities in Associated British Ports, DB Schenker Rail carried out the first long-di- Germany under the umbrella of its subsidiary, TRANSA Spedition GmbH. In stance salt transport operations by rail in September. The trains, each addition, the products DB SCHENKERhangartner and DB SCHENKERrailog laden with 1,200 tonnes of road salt, set off from the port of Southamp- have been transferred to the Offenbach-based TRANSA. “We are thus ton in the South of England bound for Thornaby in the North-East. The strengthening TRANSA’s position within the DB Schenker group structure,” project partners expect to be able to launch regular road salt services explains Hansjörg Rodi, Chairman of the Board of Management of Schenker by rail in the near future. ok Deutschland AG. “TRANSA is positioning itself in the German-speaking mar- ket as a specialist in large-volume full-load solutions. It promotes itself as an operator capable of organising the shipment of goods in large volumes, which lends itself to transportation by rail.” TRANSA employs a 500-strong workforce and offers Europe-wide tailor-made solutions extending well be- GmbH KALI K+S (UK), Rail Schenker DB Nordcargo, AG, DB Schenker, AG/DB yond transport operations from A to B, and well beyond Germany’s borders. DB www.transa.de ok Photos: Mainz/Germany Thornaby SAcHSENRöDERLEAvES DBScHENKERRAIL Karsten Sachsenröder, Head of Sales Europe and Region Cen- tral at DB Schenker Rail, left the company voluntarily at the start of November. “In Karsten Sachsenröder we are losing a proven specialist and industry expert, who has made a substan- PHILIPPSTHAL/GERMANY tial contribution to the development of our European sales,” Phillipsthal said Dr Alexander Hedderich, CEO of DB Schenker Rail. “I re- Offenbach THESALTOFTHEEARTH gret his decision, but I thank Karsten for his efforts and his pro- fessionalism and I wish him every success for the future.” Until Representatives of K+S KALI GmbH, K+S Aktiengesell- the appointment of a successor, Axel Marschall, Head of Auto- schaft and DB Schenker Rail Deutschland (DBSR) met in motive Rail at DB Schenker (photo on right), has taken on August at K+S KALI GmbH’s Werra plant for talks about the Sachsenröder’s responsibilities on a temporary basis. dv Mainz role of DBSR in the group’s distribution processes. The background to this was the logistics problems during the first six months of the year, which for K+S resulted in diffi- culties with the provision of supplies to some customers. Milan/Italy Owing to a train accident in Italy and the associated pre- Ten years of liberalisation in Italy scribed checks on the wheel sets of freight wagons, not all wagons intended for transporting fertilisers could be used, which resulted in delays. Another aim of the meeting was Autumn 2001 saw the first Italian private freight train run from Melzo in northern Italy to Zee- to find solutions for optimising stability in rail operations brugge in Belgium. This 10th anniversary of liberalised rail freight transport in Italy was cele- Milan and wagon availability. The photo shows the participants brated at the end of October in Senago, Lombardy by some 130 business partners, at the meeting in Philippsthal before the tour of the Werra employees and managers of NORDCARGO, the Italian subsidiary of DB Schenker Rail. The plant. ok photo on the left shows the former Managing Director of NORDCARGO, Luigi Legnani, next to the current Managing Director, Giorgio Spadi.
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