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THE DB CARGO CUSTOMER MAGAZINE

Reliability and drive are what matter when DB Cargo staff navigates trains from Antwerp to the Rhine-Main region. LISTENING AND KNUCKLING DOWN Page 08

TURNING POINT TRANSPORT LOGISTIC CUSTOMER FOCUS REGULAR OPERATIONS START COME SEE US AT THE COMPLEX JUST-IN-TIME IN GOTTHARD TUNNEL TRADE FAIR! TRANSPORTS FOR UNILEVER Page 24 Page 28 Page 40 EDITORIAL

VERY BRITISH: DOERS AT DB CARGO

LUXURY PASSENGER Please allow me to introduce myself: TRAINS WITH my name is Raimund Stüer and I took on the role as Member of the Management Board for Sales and DB CARGO UK TRACTION Marketing at DB Cargo in mid-March. I’m looking forward to getting to work and to devoting all my energy to the task! DEUTSCHE BAHN DEUTSCHE

DB Cargo is not just a rail freight company in Germany; we also offer our customers national and

BELMOND(3); international services around our core strength – the railways. One of the most important prerequisites BELMOND BRITISH PULLMAN IS A WON- for customer-oriented solutions is our highly skilled DERFUL TRAIN THAT ALLOWS PASSEN- and motivated staff. We have more than 31,000 GERS TO EXPERIENCE HOW THE FILM colleagues making sure that your logistics solution STARS OF THE 1920S AND 30S FELT AS is working perfectly, whether this be in Germany or THEY JOURNEYED IN THESE PALACES ON anywhere else in Europe. These are our “doers”. WHEELS. Thanks to their hard work and dependability, we’re

TITLE: TILLMANN FRANZEN; EDITORIAL: TITLE: TILLMANN FRANZEN; EDITORIAL: able to improve the solutions we deliver to you RICHARD CORSER a little every day. ACCOUNT MANAGER, DB CARGO UK PHOTOS: PHOTOS: In this issue, we’d like to introduce you to a few of these members of staff and report on their can-do attitudes. I hope you enjoy reading the magazine Luxury and rail freight transport – the con- in this field, and the renewal of the contract on board. Belmond British Pullman offers and I’m eager to work with you to move more DB Cargo’s national subsidiary nection between these two concepts will demonstrates that our services are truly first- around 140 excursions each year, one in ten in Britain is providing presti- not be immediately obvious to everybody. class,” says Richard Corser, Account Man- of which as nostalgic steam-hauled jour- freight onto rail – by far the most environmentally gious services for Belmond However, one thing is beyond doubt: reliabil- ager at DB Cargo UK. “The Belmond British neys. an friendly mode of transport. British Pullman for a further five ity and quality are not merely characteristics Pullman is a wonderful train. We are glad years. of DB Cargo’s transport operations but also that we can continue to provide this unique Raimund Stüer form the foundations of luxury, which service.” More information: Member of the Management Board for Sales means everything beyond the bare necessi- The order extends a partnership with Bel- www.belmond.com/british-pullman-train and Marketing, DB Cargo ties of life.It therefore comes as no surprise mond that has lasted for over 20 years. DB that DB Cargo in Britain has again won a very Cargo UK will now pull the popular luxury special contract: providing traction for the trains throughout Britain for another five Interested in the latest from the luxurious passenger trains of Belmond years. world of DB Cargo? Sign up for British Pullman, which is the very British Belmond British Pullman carries its passen- the newsletter, so you don’t miss sister to the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express gers, usually on day trips, from London out on any news from the railways. and has long enjoyed cult status. Victoria Station to a variety of destinations Subscribe at: Contact | Richard Corser “We are proud to support Belmond British in Britain, such as Bath, York or Sandring- Telephone: +44 (0)7584 154731 www.dbcargo.com/newsletter Pullman: DB Cargo UK is a proven specialist ham. Lunch or dinner is frequently offered [email protected]

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FOCUS COMPANY & PEOPLE MARKETS & INNOVATIONS

11 DB CARGO – THE DOERS 20 PREMIUM SERVICES IN HUNGARY 32 PLANNING THE FUTURE Aloys Vieten: finding solutions – always and everywhere, WoMen at Work: highly qualified and extremely dedicated With his customer BMW, Robert Nestler is no longer dis- Production Coordinator, Duisburg. specialists – these are the trump cards that are helping DB cussing the what is, but rather the what’s next. Lisa Wolter: guiding and diverting, Dispatcher, Duisburg. Cargo Hungária to grow. Dirk Heinsch: an ear for the railways, Train Preparer, 34 PERSISTENCE IS KEY Aachen. 22 FROM MARKET SQUARE TO TEAM VISITS When Martin Fildebrandt is convinced of the advantages of DB Cargo invites customers to Duisburg for Dispatchers’ Day. a service, he’s always determined to win over his customers 14 OPERATOR H&S CONTAINER LINE CHOOSES DB CARGO with it, too – even if it takes years to do so. The freight forwarder with a strong focus on inland waterway 23 GOOD LOOK, GOOD CONTENT vessels now also links the Belgian port and the Rhine region by Readers praise the look of the railways customer magazine, 36 EXPANDED SERVICES FOR CAR MANUFACTURER FORD rail. The traction contract was awarded to DB Cargo. but want more information on current trends and innova- Transfesa takes on operation of a multimodal terminal for tions. Ford in Spain. 16 “BTT TRANSFORMS ITSELF INTO A RAIL FREIGHT FORWARDER” 24 NEW ERA IN TRANS-ALPINE TRANSPORT 38 RELIABLY LINC-ED An interview with Carsten Hinne, CEO DB Cargo BTT. The Regular operations have begun in the Gotthard Base Tunnel. DB Cargo implements an intelligent IT system to manage chemicals division of the rail freight company demonstrates The world’s longest tunnel became a part of DB Cargo’s Euro- deliveries for car plants in Kaluga and Nizhny Novgorod in its expertise as an efficient rail freight forwarder. pean network in December 2016. Russia.

18 EUROPEAN RAIL CHAMPION 26 THE SCHWEINFURT RAILPORT MAKES IT POSSIBLE Efficient, fast and environmentally friendly: DB Cargo BTT’s The Schweinfurt railport offers companies in the boom region CUSTOMERS & PROJECTS shuttle trains connect chemical clusters across the whole of of Lower Franconia not only access to the rail network but Europe. An overview of the most important regions and train also services with real added value. 40 MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DB CARGO connections. DB Cargo is taking on new full-load transport operations for BAHN Unilever, thereby proving that it can manage complex just- TRANSPORT LOGISTIC TRADE FAIR in-time logistics projects from a single source. DEUTSCHE 28 INDUSTRY MEETING POINT 42 CERTIFIED RAIL EXPERTISE transport logistic is Europe’s leading trade fair for logistics, mo- DB Cargo UK has been working hard over the last twelve

bility, IT and supply chain management. As in previous years, PHOTOS: months to bring its workshops up-to-date and external cus- DB Cargo would like to invite its customers and other 08 tomers can now also make use of them. interested parties to come and learn more about its services, THE GATEWAY TO EUROPE products and innovations. The Port of Antwerp is growing steadily. With the DBantwerp- 43 DB CARGO DEVELOPS THE LAND BRIDGE TO CHINA rhine-shuttle, DB Cargo has now developed a corridor product London welcomed the first train from China with great 30 INTERFACE FOR THE FUTURE with fast transport times for customers in all sectors. fanfare in January 2017. MyRailportal is the new central platform for digital communication between DB Cargo and its customers. 44 POLLMEIER SAWMILL IN MALCHOW REOPENED The Malchow sawmill was forced to close six years ago. 31 THE NEXT GENERATION OF COIL TRANSPORTERS It reopened this year – with help from DB Cargo. DB Cargo presents the second Shimmns-ttu prototype. railways is available in digital or in printed form There is no comparable wagon on the market. – in German, too. 46 FINAL CALL / SAVE THE DATE / PUBLICATION DETAILS

4 RAILWAYS 01 | 17 5 NEWS AALBORG / DENMARK Better links to Jutland ÖREBRO / SWEDEN DB Cargo is improving links between 1.2 million tonnes of northern Denmark and the Euro- paper from Scandinavia pean rail networks. Two trains per week now link the Jutland port of In mid-December 2016, DB Cargo and Aalborg with Fredericia in the south the Swedish company ScandFibre of the country. From there, there are Logistics (SFL) signed contracts that connections to the European expand the scope of the services single-wagon network, and the provided. In future, DB Cargo will European intermodal network is transport 1.2 million tonnes of paper to linked via the Taulov Terminal. Each central and southern Europe each year train has a capacity of 1,600 tonnes, on behalf of SFL. In the opposite and all kinds of freight can be direction, DB Cargo will transport transported on the single-wagon around 12,000 wagonloads to Sweden system. “We have developed a very for SFL, mainly for end customers from attractive offer for a wide range of the consumer goods industry. The new customers in the north of Denmark,” contract runs until 2019. “DB Cargo explains Thomas Vestergaard, Head has the necessary European network, of Regional Sales at DB Cargo in the experience to operate high-quality single-wagon networks, and the Denmark. North Jutland is home to a ÖREBRO large number of medium-sized resources required to develop them businesses. mh further,” says Mats Erkén, CEO of SFL. SFL operates its own European transport network for the paper AALBORG BERLIN / GERMANY industry under the name “Rail 17”. DB Cargo is one of the biggest service DB Schenker Award for providers for SFL and “Rail 17”. an Dr Christian Tummel In late 2016, the Deutsche Bahn

Foundation awarded Dr Christian IMAGES Tummel the DB Schenker Award. The FRANKFURT AM MAIN / scientist, who works at RWTH Aachen, GERMANY won the international logistics award, MAINZ / GERMANY which comes with a €10,000 cash METROPOL METROPOL Raimund Stüer named prize, for his dissertation titled “IT DB Cargo’s single- cooperation platform for direct, wagon network new Board Member for cross-forwarder, less-than-truckload is getting more Sales at DB Cargo transports”. DB’s Member of the In mid-March 2017, Raimund Stüer Management Board for Finance, Dr competitive took on his new position as DB Richard Lutz, described the research DB Cargo has a unique selling point BERLIN Cargo’s Member of the Management as “forward-looking”. It outlines the in the competition against other Board for Sales & Marketing, making structure and organisation of an IT European rail companies: its him responsible for sales and cooperation platform that could be single-wagon network, within which MAINZ marketing activities at Europe’s applied to a wide range of other fields. customers’ wagons and wagon FRANKFURT biggest rail freight company. Stüer, The DB Schenker Award is a junior groups can be reliably transported AM MAIN who holds a business degree, has researcher award set up by DB anywhere in Europe. In January 2017, spent much of his career in the rail Schenker and the Deutsche Bahn responsibility for utilisation in the NOVATE MILANESE / ITALY freight industry. A co-founder of the Foundation. The international prize is single-wagon network moved to DB private freight operator TX Logistik awarded annually and is regarded Cargo’s Sales division. By establish- Italy’s most punctual rail AG, he successfully established the within the logistics industry as one of ing a targeted utilisation manage- freight company company as an international provider

the sector’s most prestigious IMAGES, AKG BAHN(3), DEUTSCHE ONLINE, ment system, the rail company aims DB Cargo Italia was again the most punctual rail on the North–South corridor during

awards. an F1 to sell free capacity more actively freight operator in Italy in 2016. With a rate of his time there between 2000 and and effectively in future, to secure 2011. He has also worked as Senior NOVATE MILANESE punctual arrivals standing at 82.3 per cent, DB greater volumes and generate Cargo exceeded the average for all rail com- Vice President at Kühne + Nagel growth. DB Cargo is going to Management AG, where he was

PHOTOS: PHOTOS: panies, which stood at 69.5 per cent. For DB strengthen and expand the single- Cargo, this result was a further improvement on responsible for rail and intermodal wagon network – to offer clear 2015, when four out of five trains arrived on time. logistics services. added value to customers. Plans are The reasons for this outstanding result include a “We’re delighted that Raimund Stüer is afoot to introduce fast, frequent continuous dialogue between DB Cargo Italia joining us to share his sales and connections between the most and the network operator, RFI. Every two marketing expertise,” says Jürgen important economic centres in months, representatives of the two companies Wilder, CEO of DB Cargo. “His Germany and central Europe. DB discuss planning and execution, in order to find extensive experience and his network Cargo recently succeeded in joint solutions for improving the running of in national and international rail reducing transport times from freight transport in Italy. freight transport will support DB Scandinavia to southern Europe for Cargo on its growth trajectory.” an one customer, while increasing the The punctuality index takes account of stand- volume of freight transported. All ards set by the infrastructure operator, RFI. The DB Cargo customers benefit from description “punctual” applies to regular trains this new direct connection because that reach their destination up to 30 minutes they, too, can use this service for after their scheduled arrival time and to special their transport operations. an trains that do so no later than 120 minutes after the planned time. an

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THE The Port of Antwerp is growing steadily and the port authorities are keen to improve rail hinterland connections to cope with the additional volumes of freight in a sustainable way. DB Cargo has been chosen as the cooperation partner for this project. With the DBantwerp- GATEWAY TO rhine-shuttle, Europe’s largest rail freight company has now developed a corridor product that guarantees fast transport times and offers customers in all sectors EUROPE an attractive transport planning option.

he view at the Port of Antwerp is breathtaking. A light mist hangs in the air as the eye roams over a surreal landscape. Rows of windowless towers soar into Tthe sky everywhere you look: oil tanks. An armada of rail tank wagons is waiting to be loaded and, in the distance, container trains roll through the flat terrain. The hush that lies over the scene doesn’t quite fit with the industrial backdrop. The shrieking gulls are trying to outdo each other, staking their claim to dominion over the skies, while in the distance the occasional low groan of a ship’s horn can be heard. We’re 80 kilometres away from the sea here. The Port of Antwerp lies at the mouth of the Scheldt River, which splits here into the Western Scheldt and the Eastern Scheldt and which still has to flow through the Dutch province of Zeeland before it reaches the North Sea. The magnitude of the scene in- spires awe – and the record books reflect this. BAHN The Port of Antwerp is home to the world’s second-largest chemicals park, after Houston in the US state of Texas. Almost 70 million DEUTSCHE tonnes of oil and chemicals were transhipped at the Antwerp terminals in 2016. The Kiel-

PHOTOS: PHOTOS: drecht Lock – the world’s biggest lock – went into operation in summer 2016.

8 RAILWAYS 01 | 17 9 FOCUS DOERS FROM ANTWERP TO ALL OVER TANK WAGON MANOEUVRE: the EUROPE Port of Antwerp is In February 2017, DB Cargo launched a cor- home to the world’s ridor product with fast transport times to and second biggest from Antwerp. The weekday connection on chemicals industry the Antwerp – Ruhr region – Mannheim cor- park. ridor is called DBantwerp-rhine-shuttle . “This allows us to connect the major industrial centres of Antwerp and the Rhine/Ruhr and the Rhine/Neckar regions, and to link up quickly to DB Cargo’s European network, especially to southern Germany, Italy, Aus- tria, France, Spain and south-eastern Europe. We’re listening to demand from our customers in various industries, for whom this kind of corridor product is essential,” Dr Jürgen Wilder, CEO of DB Cargo, explains. Some of the trains travel to the Ruhr region; there are frequent connections towards northern and eastern Germany and there are other trains to destinations in Scandinavia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Other trains travel via the Rhine corridor and Cologne to Mannheim. From there, the transport oper- FOUR PER CENT GROWTH ations can be fed into DB Cargo’s western and ALOYS VIETEN, Those who are only now becoming aware of southern European network, with connec- PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, DUISBURG the Belgian Port of Antwerp have been miss- tions to Italy, Austria, France and Spain – and ing out. A minor economic miracle has been that up to ten times daily. In addition, freight taking place on the banks of the Scheldt for can be transhipped onto inland waterway quite a while now. At the end of 2016, the port vessels or transported over the “last mile” to reported a new transhipment record of 10 the customer by HGV. Be it traditional wag- million TEU (i.e. the corresponding number onload transport, the intermodal cargo of of standard containers) following growth of partners, or tank wagon transports: the shut- FINDING more than four per cent. In terms of volume, tle is suitable for all kinds of freight and trans- more than 214 million tonnes of cargo were port modes. SOLUTIONS – transhipped in Antwerp, 2.7 per cent more The new product offers links to a large ALWAYS AND than in the previous year. With regard to number of terminals and is therefore aimed make the product highly attractive consider- freight volume, Antwerp is Europe’s second- at various industries and sectors. “Customers ing the market’s increasing flexibility require- EVERYWHERE largest port after Rotterdam. It is the biggest and partners benefit from shorter transit ments. port in the world in relation to geographical times and the high flexibility of transport The shuttle – like all of DB Cargo’s prod- size, covering an area of more than 12,000 operations between Antwerp and the Ger- ucts – also has the advantage of reduced emis- Aloys Vieten was there when the rail company’s Duisburg hectares – 20 per cent larger than that of Rot- man industrial regions of Rhine/Ruhr and sions compared with pure road transport Control Centre was established in 1993. Today, the experi- terdam. Rhine/Neckar,” explains Felix Brückmann, operations and is therefore significantly more enced railwayman, as Production Coordinator at DB Cargo’s One of Antwerp’s biggest advantages is its Product Manager at DB Cargo, who is respon- environmentally friendly. Sustainable supply Regional Provision division, is responsible during his shift location. 60 per cent of the European Union’s sible for the DBantwerp- rhine-shuttle. chains are becoming an important aspect for for a team of train dispatchers. They manage all the freight purchasing power is condensed within a rad- a growing number of customers. transports in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the inter- ius of 500 kilometres, including the Ruhr Optional services include wagon manage- national transport operations to and from Belgium and the region down to Cologne, which is – with ten FAST TRANSPORT TIMES – ment, repairs and status reports on trans- Netherlands. For example, all the Antwerp trains pass million residents – Germany’s most densely GREAT FLEXIBILITY ports. Customer service is provided by a through his area – or to be more precise, that of his dispatch- populated area. The port, which employs a These improvements are being achieved central customer management team. ers, each of whom is responsible for certain routes: Venlo, workforce of 1,650, not only has an exem- largely thanks to timetable optimisations and DB Cargo intends to further develop the Aachen, the Ruhr region, the Rhine corridor and Hamm/ plary network of ports, it is also expanding operational adjustments that ensure a swift product over the coming months. “Adjust- Westphalia. “I make the final decision,” says Vieten. “When its links to the European continent. As it and smooth passage to the Rhine-Neckar/ ments over the course of the year will allow serious problems come up, such as delays, staff shortages, develops its port hinterland transport oper- Rhine-Ruhr regions, as well as with the aid us to make our service to the Ruhr and Neck- engine drivers stranded far from civilisation waiting to be re- ations, Antwerp is focusing heavily on rail so of the strong DB Cargo network, which allows ar regions more attractive,” says Felix Brück- lieved and so forth, I have to decide how to proceed.” When that it is ready for future volume growth and a regular and very high-frequency train ser- mann. Links to further terminals will also be that happens, Aloys Vieten gets on the phone, wakes up col- is prepared for competition from other ports. vice. Within this network, destinations in added. leagues, discusses timetables with DB Netz – and makes sure BAHN(2), TILLMANN FRANZEN BAHN(2), The European market leader DB Cargo is Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, the show goes on. In one case he succeeded in ensuring that already managing a large number of trains to south-eastern Europe and Poland can be CHE a time-critical shipment of an oversized transformer reached and from Antwerp, including direct connec- reached. From DB Cargo’s perspective, the Wilhelmshaven just in time to catch the ship despite every- DEUTS tions (as part of the COBRA joint venture, for high-frequency connection and the extensive Contact | Felix Brückmann thing appearing to conspire against the rail company on the example) and network transport operations coverage, which transcends defined destina- Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61635 previous day. Finding solutions when it seems that all is lost –

via its brand-new Dutch rail hub Kijfhoek. tion regions, offer important advantages that PHOTOS: [email protected] that’s his job. mh

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LISA WOLTER, DISPATCHER, DUISBURG

GUIDING AND DIVERTING

Train Dispatcher Lisa Wolter’s workplace at DB Cargo’s Re- gional Provision division in Duisburg is similar to that of an air traffic controller. Depending on her workstation, she has between six and eight screens to keep an eye on. On four of those screens a confusing network of lines is displayed, on which various numbers move. The lines represent rail routes and each number stands for a train. You can also see the names of train stations. This allows Lisa Wolter to know exactly where each train currently is. The other screens display dispatch programmes and shift schedules. “On the basis of all this, I decide when engine drivers can be relieved outside the normal schedule and where or when a train can be divert- ed via what route, for example when there are delays,” explains Wolter. She does this in close coordination over the telephone with DB Netz, which gives clearance for rail lines and produces new timetables. Lisa Wolter is regularly tasked with the work of managing the international trains to Bel- BAHN, TILLMANN FRANZEN BAHN, gium and the Netherlands. When she is dispatching trains between Antwerp and the Ruhr region, frequent telephone contact with colleagues in Brussels is critically important. DEUTSCHE Lisa Wolter joined the team in 2013. She regularly switches between workstations – and is getting to know more and

more routes. mh PHOTOS:

RAILWAYS 01 | 17 13 FOCUS DOERS GREETINGS FROM THE DRIVER’S CAB: DB Cargo’s engine drivers navigate trains across Europe – day and night.

mer division of the shipping company Haeger OPERATOR DIRK HEINSCH, & Schmidt, H&S Container Line has been an TRAIN PREPARER, AACHEN independent company based in Duisburg, H&S CONTAINER LINE Europe’s largest inland port, for a decade. “With the new block train product, whose frequency can be increased according to de- CHOOSES AN EAR mand, we are expanding our portfolio be- The intermodal service provider with a tween Antwerp and the Central Rhineland DB CARGO strong focus on inland waterways con- FOR region, and taking over the entire utilisation nects the Belgian seaport of Antwerp risk for the train as the block train operator,” with a new block train product along the THE RAILWAYS says Maik Bastian, General Manager at H&S Rhine. DB Cargo was awarded the trac- Container Line. tion contract. The first train connection run by DB Cargo using its own traction stock between the port of Antwerp and the German section of the o coincide with the 2016/17 time- Dirk Heinsch’s work starts once the trains to and from Bel- Rhine sets off on Tuesdays at the port of Ant- table change, DB Cargo has gium have arrived at the Aachen-West train station. “I check werp and travels direct to the terminal at the started an entirely new block whether the freight documents are all in order and the wag- port of Andernach. The trimodal terminal train on behalf of the multi- on order is correct, and I make sure the train is properly has 750 metres of track, 42,000 square metres modal carrier H&S Container coupled and the brakes are on the right setting and fully of storage space and a warehouse capacity of TLine, which currently connects the seaport functional,” explains Dirk Heinsch. If the train is simply being 4,000 TEU. A gantry crane loads the contain- of Antwerp with the German hinterland once “re-harnessed”, i.e. the locomotive is being swapped, or the ers direct onto the rails, HGV and barge. a week. The 540-metre long container train train is changing direction, then a simplified brake test is suf- The new railway connection strengthens with 27 wagons requires around six to eight ficient. If the train is parked for longer than 24 hours, a full H&S’s move to environmentally friendly THE PORT OF hours to cover the distance between Antwerp brake test has to be carried out. From his cabin, the engine modes of transport. With its concept of “con- ANDERNACH ON and Andernach on the Rhine. It travels dur- driver activates the compressor, which supplies all the wag- tainer barging for a greener planet”, H&S ing the night, enabling the goods to be tran- ons with air pressure via the main brake pipe. The brakes are precisely calculates the CO2 emissions for THE RHINE shipped first thing the following morning. released when the control pressure in the main brake pipe each journey in direct comparison to HGV The significance of the port of “H&S enjoys an excellent reputation in the reaches 5.0 bar. If Heinsch notices any irregularities during transportation. “A sustainable supply chain Andernach has grown considerably sector as a reliable logistics service provider, the brake test, he has to get to the source of the problem. If is playing an important role for an ever inin recent years. With a transhipment volume of between 2.7 and 3.2 and we are proud of the trust our customers he’s not able to deal with the issue himself, he removes the creasing number of industrial customers,” million tonnes per year, it is now the have in us,” says Andrea Clasen-De Cunto, wagon from the block train and informs a wagon technician, says Maik Bastian. “The railway can help Accounts Manager West for the intermodal who is normally easy to recognise by the long-handled ham- with this because it emits significantly less

biggest port on the Central Rhine TILLMANN FRANZEN BAHN(2), between Ludwigshafen and Cologne. division of DB Cargo. “We look forward to a mer he carries with him as he carries out technical repairs to carbon dioxide than HGV.” mh Its total area of roughly 370 hectares close, long-lasting partnership.” wagons. The technician repairs minor damage to the wagons comprises various transhipment H&S Container Line GmbH started out in himself, but if the damage is more significant and he cannot options for inland waterways, HGV DEUTSCHE inland waterway transportation, but now solve the problem, he informs the mobile workshop. Respon- and rail. The port has eleven crane systems with a load capacity of five provides multimodal logistics services from sibility for the safety of the train ultimately lies with Dirk Contact | Andrea Clasen-De Cunto

to fifty tonnes, as well as various Antwerp and Rotterdam along the entire PHOTOS: Heinsch, and the engine driver has to be able to trust him Telephone: +31 30 235 8965 mobile units. mh length of the Rhine by barge and train. A for- completely. mh [email protected]

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Could you give us some examples? Which customers are already us- OUR ing such solutions? H_____We will be managing the entire lo- ASPIRATION gistics of Exxon Mobil, for example. In- stead of working to a timetable prescribed IS TO MAKE by the customer, we are taking on the entire materials planning of the transports in- coordinate reviews and repairs, integrate cluding wagon management. This includes our fleet and maintenance management THE negotiating contracts with sub-contractors, and select the equipment on a needs-specif- hiring tank wagons, managing damaged ic basis. In many processes, such as the wagons, producing documents – and plan- transportation of packaged goods, we work CUSTOMER ning journeys and flows. We monitor our closely with our colleagues at Schenker. performance according to tightly defined The aim is to provide the customer with THE BEST KPIs. In order to reduce the complexity of maximum security of supply. the supply chain, our own DB Cargo BTT competence centre bundles all of the cus- A complete package ... OFFER tomer’s interfaces. H_____... but that’s not all. As part of our performance management, we carry out a ON THE What does that look like, exactly? systematic, multi-dimensional reporting Carsten Hinne, how is chemical H_____Imagine that a customer in China process. This involves us measuring the in- logistics changing at the moment? wants to transport specific goods from the dividual performance, carrying out risk MARKET H_____The chemical industry is experi- chemical industry, but isn’t very familiar analyses and identifying optimisation po- encing increasing competitive and cost with the logistics industry. We, DB Cargo tential. This helps us reduce costs and in- pressures. Many companies are currently BTT, will offer this customer a full service. crease safety. relocating their production sites to cheaper This means that we will professionally un- The logisticians at DB Cargo BTT countries, and, as a result of globalisation, dertake all services for the transport in How do you guarantee consistent do not have to prove their ex- basic chemicals are increasingly being pro- question. quality in the face of complex pro- pertise to anyone. The special- duced close to the raw materials. This is re- cesses? ists for customised rail-based sulting in a growth in the mass flows from What makes your range of services H_____BTT relies on IT-supported sys- logistics concepts for the chem- overseas. At the same time, the mineral oil different? tems throughout the entire process. They ical industry demonstrate their industry is experiencing extreme pricing H_____The customer is given logistics ad- are flexible, scalable and can be customised skills on a daily basis as a com- pressures, and Europe’s refineries are suf- vice in four key areas from a single source: for individual clients. They also reduce petent, independent rail carrier. fering from surplus structural capacities. supply chain management, transport man- costs. As part of our chemical logistics pro- Interview with Carsten Hinne, The global displacement of goods flows, in- agement, fleet management and perform- ject, Chemielogistik 4.0, we are addressing CEO of DB Cargo BTT. creasing containerisation and the heavy ance management. With the help of the issues such as optimisation of the vehicle competitive pressure are enormous chal- customer’s annual sales and production fleet and tapping into synergies. This is a INTERVIEW_____Mirko Heinemann lenges for us logisticians. At the same time, plans, we work together to develop a logis- Big Data project, whereby historical chem- more regulatory requirements are being tics concept that is intermodal. Very much ical logistics data is consolidated to identi- placed on hazardous goods transport and in keeping with our role as an LLP, we fy patterns that can be used to better plan environmental standards are becoming work together to identify the best mode of transport operations in future. It involves more stringent. transport: wagonload transport or com- us reviewing, analysing and improving all bined transport. Should DB Cargo be the processes. How is BTT responding to such selected traction partner, or must it be a developments? third-party railway transport company? It What will be the end result for the DB CARGO BTT H_____We are contemplating how we can is essential for us that we always provide customer? As a leading European service relieve our customers of the burden of in- our customers with the best offer on the H_____The customer receives a full ser- provider for integrated chemical and creasingly complex logistics. We are listen- market – with a concept that is tailor-made vice solution from a single source. We in- dangerous goods logistics, BTT ing closely to them, whether in our to their individual requirements. Our aim crease the efficiency of their supply chain impresses with its intelligent, numerous workshops and conventions, or is for one call to BTT to be sufficient for re- by reducing the complexity of their sup- industry-specific logistics concepts in bilateral discussions, and are working to- ceiving a full service. The standard we set plier relationships. This saves the custom- for sensitive freight from the gether to develop solutions. With our in- ourselves is to offer our customers all the er from dealing with complex contracts chemical and mineral oil industries. termodal solutions along the entire supply possible transport solutions that the mar- when organising their transports. With us, More than 130 employees, including tank container and tank wagon chain, we are demonstrating to them that, ket provides. the customer has one contact person, they specialists and technical and IT as a Lead Logistics Provider (LLP), we are conclude the contract and receive a single professionals, guarantee reliable and capable of managing complex transport Which additional services are BTT invoice at the end. On the rails that is any- efficient transport solutions between chains and taking on additional services. able to undertake? thing but a given. And it doesn’t get much chemical industry clusters through- This allows us to relieve our customers of H_____We offer fleet management, be simpler than this. mh out Europe. BTT uses combined tasks that aren’t related to the sector, and that tank wagons or tank containers, the transport and wagonload transport RAIL CARRIER 2.0 CLEMENS HESS to organise the main leg on the rails, help them to concentrate more on their coordination of the entire order processing Scope: 90,000 transports per year the handling at the terminal and the core business again. This is already hap- and the materials planning. We also work Assets: management of 3,000 tank wagons Contact | Dr Carsten Hinne

initial and final leg on the road for all pening in many places and is being contin- together to decide whether to use our own PHOTO: and 500 tank containers, plus roughly 1,100 Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61300 European routes. mh uously refined. tank wagons or those of the customer. We hired tanks [email protected]

16 RAILWAYS 01 | 17 17 Efficient, fast and environmentally friendly: DB Cargo BTT’s shuttle trains connect chemicals clusters FOCUS across the whole of Europe. Here is an overview of the most important regions and train connections. EUROPEAN

RØNLAND RAIL FINLAND Three shuttle trains a week depart from the Taulov and Fredericia CHAMPION terminals to Rønland in the west of Denmark, where there is an important chemicals cluster. These trains SCANDINAVIA transport tank wagons, maritime NORWAY containers and continental containers. Northern Europe is connected to the central European network via the SWEDEN Danish terminals. Single-wagon ALSACE dispatching is handled in Fredericia, while containers are taken care of at The Alsace Shuttle travels from the intermodal terminal in nearby Offenburg in Baden to Mulhouse in Taulov, from which two trains a week RUSSIA the Alsace and back six times a week. DENMARK depart for Aalborg in northern Many of the wagons are delivered to Denmark and a regular service is PORT OF ANTWERP customers in the chemicals industry operated through the Great Belt Rail based in Thann and Bantzenheim. With the DBantwerp-rhine-shuttle to Tunnel to Sweden, Norway and Finland. ge rid and from Antwerp, customers have B access to a high-frequency hinterland nd La connection for wagonload and THE NETHERLANDS a intermodal transports. DB Cargo has in GERMANY h increased the departure frequencies POLAND C CHINA of existing trains and added a number Deutsche Bahn has been successfully of stations. The Antwerp region is operating freight trains between connected to the European network BELGIUM Europe and the Far East since 2011. via the Dutch rail hub of Kijfhoek. More than 40,000 containers were transported between China and Germany in 2016. The trains complete CZECH REPUBLIC the 12,000-kilometre journey in 12 to 16 days – twice as fast as sea vessels.

SLOVAKIA FRANCE

AUSTRIA HUNGARY SWITZERLAND ROMANIA

ITALY BAVARIAN CHEMICALS TRIANGLE The Burghausen Shuttle for combined transport operations runs every day BULGARIA between the Bavarian chemicals triangle and Hamburg/Bremerhaven. All container terminals and a large SPAIN number of depots in the Port of Ham- FRANCE/SPAIN burg and in Bremerhaven are serviced RailNetFrance offers customers in all via the Maschen hub. In addition, the TURKEY industries fast links between Ger- Burghausen-Duisburg shuttle connects many/eastern Europe and France/the PORTUGAL the Rhine-Ruhr region and the Bavarian Iberian peninsula. The route to chemicals triangle three times a week. northern Spain via Paris and the The Duisburg-RH DUSS gateway south-west of France is an important terminal offers connections to the corridor. The Mediterranean corridor North Sea ports of Rotterdam and

is another important one: it connects 43 ILLUTEAM Antwerp, and to destinations in France, central Europe with the south of Scandinavia and Poland. With the France and important chemicals hubs planned Burghausen-Ludwigshafen in Barcelona, the Alsace, Lyon and shuttle train, the Rhine-Neckar region is Marseille. The Lyon region is served to be connected to the chemicals cluster

four times a week via the hub in ILLUSTRATION: to the east of Munich by the third Sibelin. quarter of 2017 at the latest.

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ighly qualified and extremely dedicated specialists – these are the H trump cards that are helping DB Cargo Hungária to grow. “If we were a foot- ball team, we’d thrash every other logistics company,” jokes Mészárosné Zsidi An- namária, the woman at the front in the pic- ture. Together with her colleagues, Annamária organises the transhipment and storage of valuable specialist tools for the premium car manufacturer Audi. The car company no longer had enough space in its production hall to store the pressing machines, which can weigh up to 48 tonnes, so it put out a tender for their storage and maintenance. DB Cargo Hungária won that tender and built a 1,800 square metre hall in Győr in spring 2016. “We now make sure that the presses are available immediately when the customer asks for them,” says Mészárosné Zsidi Annamária. “Any time, day or night.” DB Cargo and Audi have enjoyed a long partnership in Hungary. The rail company took over shunting services for the premium car manufacturer at the Győr plant in 2002. By now, DB Cargo is also responsible for transporting car body parts, engines and complete cars by rail. In 2016, a ceremony was held to celebrate the 25,000th train between Győr and the main Audi plant in Ingolstadt. And demand seems to be growing by the day. According to the Hungarian railway portal “Nav- igator”, DB Cargo Hungária is among the top ten Hungarian rail companies. DB Cargo Hungária has significantly expanded the range of services it offers over the last few TJADEN years. mh WoMen

OLIVER OLIVER Contact | Andrea Modrián Telephone: +36 96 542-176 [email protected] PHOTO: PHOTO: AT WORK

20 RAILWAYS 01 | 17 21 COMPANY & PEOPLE GOOD LOOK, ope’s biggest rail freight company. There were three qualified contacts at hand to explain the principles and advantages of the GOOD CONTENT new “ScrapPortal”, “Tracking & Tracing” and “SteelPortal” systems: Ralph List, Project Head Industrial Digitalisation, Daniel Er- misch, myRailport, and Manuel Fischer, Pro- ject Management/Logistics Services Coal and Steel. FROM With “SteelPortal”, the former Coal and Steel division, now Industrial Sales division has, for the first time, developed a modern, transparent inflow management system for coil trans- THE port operations for the steel industry. This is the first step towards a new, digital management system for DB Cargo Customer Service. MARKET In addition to providing a transparent transport and route overview, the online tool also supports the planning process. “Our conges- tion forecasts, which are exact to the day, have EXCHANGE: customers talked with staff SQUARE aroused the interest of forwarders and recipi- from Customer Services Industrial. ents,” reports Manuel Fischer. “SteelPortal” will only be available after the test phase has come to an end. “To begin with, we’re testing TO the system internally as a dispatch aid. But we’re already providing additional information for customer discussions – fast, efficient and high quality,” explains Rainer Frie. TEAM “The ‘SteelPortal’ approach is certainly very attractive – with our coil transports, the system could make inflows even more transpar- Readers praised the look of the rail- ent for us,” says Claudia van den Boom, ways customer magazine, but want VISITS Production Planning/Manufacturing Control more information on current trends DB Cargo invites customers to at ThyssenKrupp Bilstein. and innovations. Duisburg for Dispatchers’ Day. Participants were then given the chance to Overall, respondents rate the magazine as “good”, take part in team visits during normal day-to- and they find the appearance of the magazine and day operations. This programme item was “We want to make the railways customer magazine its quality design particularly appealing. “Readable ransparency and communication are particularly popular because it allowed cus- better” – with this clear goal, the railways editorial and informative” is how many readers describe the a great foundation for good customer tomers to observe daily operations from the team launched a reader survey last year. And what a publication, which they also regard as having high T relations. That is why DB Cargo is “other side”, giving them an inside look into success it was! We have received a wealth of ideas journalistic credibility. In terms of content, readers seeking to establish a regular and active ex- the way the DB Cargo team work together and suggestions over the last few months, both on- benefit from articles on logistics solutions and DB change between the company and its custom- internally. line and in written interviews. Cargo products and services. Customers value the ers. One of the ways it is doing so is with the Following that, customers and DB Cargo staff practical relevance of articles: 70 per cent of the “Dispatchers’ Day” formerly of the Coal and had time to discuss current practices and to One result was particularly gratifying: readers – customers surveyed have received valuable impetus Steel division, now of Industrial Sales. explore synergies – an ideal basis upon which mainly customers and other parties interested in DB for their own logistics solutions from the informa- Birgitt Berndt, Head of Coal and Steel Cus- to continuously improve collaborations. “For Cargo – are engaging more intensively with the cus- tion provided. tomer Services, invited customers to Duis- me, it is always exciting to get to know the tomer magazine than they did a few years ago. More burg to attend this two-day event, which was systems from a different perspective. I think than 74 per cent of respondents read each one of The readers surveyed were very clear about the kind being held for the fourth time. Under the it’s important not to lose sight of the human the four issues published annually, and a third of all of content they would like to see in future. They motto “Dispatchers for Dispatchers”, around aspect. The Dispatchers’ Day represents the respondents read every article. want more articles on DB Cargo’s products, services, 120 customers and employees gathered at the perfect framework for this,” says Bilstein man- developments and logistics solutions. end of October for in-depth talks and lively ager Claudia van den Boom.

discussions. “This event has been so popular we will cer- ) In terms of publication formats, railways readers are 4 The event was held at DB Cargo’s Customer tainly be looking to repeat it next year,” says going against the tide of technology. A clear majori- Services division in Duisburg. Participants Birgitt Berndt. “In the end, we can only main- ty of survey respondents wanted the traditional BAHN( were given the opportunity at various stalls tain the high quality of our services if we work print magazine, which can be complemented by on the “market square” to learn about differ- with our customers!” an digital formats, such as the popular newsletter. an ent systems and projects currently under DEUTSCHE development at DB Cargo. The aim of this Contact | Kerstin Knepper undertaking is to employ digitalisation to Telephone: +49 (0)203 454-1476

deliver better efficiency and quality at Eur- [email protected] PHOTOS:

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with very different weather conditions when you leave the tunnel compared to 5,000 when you entered. The DB Cargo delegation is overwhelmed by the breathtaking NEW ERA panorama in Flüelen on the shores of Lake Around Lucerne. One of the group members de- 5,000 passenger scribes the journey through the mountain: IN TRANS-ALPINE and freight trains “It’s only now, with this open view of the travelled through lake, that I feel the darkness and narrow- TRANSPORT the tunnel during ness of the tunnel. And what this open the test phase view, this light and the sun mean for us as Regular operations have begun in the Gotthard Base Tunnel. between June 2016 humans.” After a brief stop, the group re- The world’s longest tunnel became a part of DB Cargo’s and the start of turns to Lucerne, changing in Arth- European network in December 2016, representing a new regular operations Goldau, and passing the Rigi, the Test operations in the second half of last in December 2016. era for the European rail freight company. Recently, DB “Queen of the Mountains”. By year showed that the tunnel can meet its early evening it’s time for the DB capacity targets and that up to 260 freight Cargo invited customers to see the revolutionary structure Cargo team to say goodbye to trains can pass through it each day. The for themselves. its guests. safety concept has also proven its worth. The safety measures, with which all engine UP TO 260 FREIGHT drivers could familiarise themselves in ad- TRAINS A DAY vance, are among the best in the world. “Visiting the tunnel Train operations will stop immediately in gave us an idea of what case of an emergency and there are connect- t is the undisputed king of all tunnels: A very special experi- awaits us and our staff ing tunnels to the other tunnels every 325 the new Gotthard Base Tunnel, ence awaited DB Car- when regular opera- metres. There are also two emergency sta- which is 57 kilometres long, traverses go’s customers on tions start,” explains tions, one in Sedrun and one in Faido, one of the Alps’ biggest mountain their test journey in Daniel Knaus, Head where trains can stop at a platform as usual. ranges, connecting central Switzer- the tunnel. “We be- of Rail Services Switz DB Cargo expects rail freight volumes on Iland with Biasca in the south of the coun- came aware of the erland at DB Cargo the new Alpine transversal to grow by five try. The Swiss’ tremendous achievement massive scale of the Schweiz. DB Cargo per cent annually from 2021 onwards, with has been acknowledged around the whole structure when we is one of the biggest the opening of the Ceneri Tunnel and the of Europe. For the first few months after reached the under- traction providers in introduction of the four-metre corridor, the opening ceremony on 1 June 2016 (see ground station in north–south trans- which will make the transportation of larg- railways 02/16) the tunnel was open exclu- Sedrun,” says Kath- Alpine transport. er containers and semitrailers possible. sively for test journeys. Now, with the in- rin Brunswicker of MAIDEN VOYAGE: The rail freight com- More than a billion tonnes of freight is cur- troduction of the new timetables on 11 DB Cargo Schweiz. Kathrin Bruns- pany manages one rently transported each year on the rail cor- December 2016, regular operations have The delegation was wicker, DB Cargo hundred trains ridor from Rotterdam on the North Sea Schweiz, and begun. shown the evacuation through the new Base coast to Genoa in the Mediterranean. This Maarten de The Swiss subsidiary of DB Cargo was tunnel. In case of an Ridder, Head of Tunnel in the single- is expected to double by 2030. mh keen to offer its customers something emergency, people will International wagon system alone. In unique, so it organised a special event to be able to head here and Sales, DB Cargo. addition to this, there are show them the new tunnel. In October be taken out of the tunnel several intermodal trains Contact | Daniel Knaus 2016, invitations were sent out for a “very on buses. The walls are and two mineral oil trans- Telephone: +41 (0)61 6901-261 different kind of train journey”. The dele- sprayed with insulation ma- ports per week. [email protected] gation of twenty would travel into the tun- terial to prevent excessive nel on the “Gottardino”, a special train echoing. belonging to Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), DB Cargo’s guests had the op- on the test operation and complete a tour of portunity to learn about the history the Sedrun multifunction station. of the tunnel’s construction from large information boards, and a film was play- SPECIAL EXPERIENCE ing in the entrance to one of the ancillary The new Gotthard is a tunnel like no other. tunnels. “On the whole, the emergency 21.5 billion In some places the rock towers more than tunnel makes quite a bleak impression,” DEUTSCHE BAHN two kilometres above the tunnel tubes. En- says Brunswicker. “A small number of seats The total cost of the new Alpine transversal is estimated at SFR 23 billion, gine drivers who have travelled through for frail or disabled persons are the only

PHOTO: PHOTO: or approximately €21.5 billion. This includes the Lötschberg and Ceneri the newly opened tunnel are talking of a concessions to comfort in this area.” The tunnels, as well as the track and rail technology. new driving experience when navigating reason for this is that the facility’s main their trains through one of the biggest purpose is to get people out of danger as 260 mountain ranges in the Alps. Even when quickly as possible. travelling at the maximum permissible It was soon time to move on to the north- speed of 120 km/h, a freight train is still un- ern side of the mountain range. The impos- Up to 260 freight trains can travel through derground for half an hour. ing Gotthard is a meteorological divide, the Gotthard Base Tunnel every day.

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T RAILPORTR S U C F H W E I N THE SCHWEINFURT RAILPORT MAKES IT POSSIBLE

into the core of our service,” says Kai Vedder, Managing Director of Translog, which has been operating and continually expanding the railport for 30 years. Translog has built sheds at the railport specially for specific customers – some of which are even accessible by train – to store, tranship and deliver goods The Schweinfurt railport offers to the assembly plants at exactly the moment companies in the boom region they are required. of Lower Franconia not only The railport also makes it possible to cater access to the rail network but to other customers with great flexibility – for also services with real added example the construction industry. The hub value. recently won the contract to handle 58 precast GATEWAY TO concrete parts for the construction of a recyc- THE WORLD ling facility in Switzerland. This freight was DB Cargo and its partner Translog offer a ower Franconia plays an import- transhipped to rail at the railport and trans- wide range of services covering all ant role in the global supply ported to Switzerland on twelve rail wagons. THE LOCATION aspects of combined transport via the chains of the automotive indus- The oversized dimensions of the precast con- 15,000 m²open space in the railport in the Schweinfurt rail freight try. The area is home to world- crete parts, which weighed up to twelve container terminal with station. Translog specialises in the renowned suppliers such as ZF tonnes each, presented a particular challenge. transhipment and storage of rail-suited 700 m platform length LSachs, Schaeffler Technologie and SKF, “This project was a chance for us to demon- freight. The railport has the equipment 17,500 m² outdoor storage area which together employ more than 12,000 strate what is possible in bi-modal road/rail required to tranship all kinds of freight, with approx. 450 m track and three from overseas shipping containers to people in the region. However, they are not transport. It was a great opportunity for us to 12–16-tonne gantry crane steel coils. the only ones looking forward to bright fu- draw attention to the railport’s capabilities facilities Container logistics: transhipment and tures at the moment. Other regional com- when it comes to handling other kinds of regional just-in-time deliveries for panies are also profiting from rising global freight,” says Vedder. He notes how vital the 3,700 m² temperature-controlled imports and exports. Overseas shipping demand. Against this backdrop, sustainable close coordination between the railport, the indoor storage area with 150 m sidings container depot, including service logistics is of even greater importance for the DB Cargo Regional Sales team in Nuremberg centre for maintenance, cleaning and region. and the DB Cargo Customized Rail Projects 4,000 m² new-build temperature- minor repairs. “The railport is the perfect way for com- team was for the success of the complex trans- controlled indoor storage area, with Warehouse logistics: transhipment, panies based in the region who do not have port project. 250 m indoor sidings, HGV access warehousing and just-in-time deliveries and two 16-tonne bridge cranes of rail-suited freight for industrial their own sidings to access the rail network,” The Schweinfurt railport is equipped for customers in the region. says Wolfgang Rebhan. The Head of Region- multimodal transport operations and can ac- Special transport operations: equipment al Sales at DB Cargo supports the railport commodate a wide range of customer require- EQUIPMENT: for special freight, from 30 to 66 cubic operator Translog as a customer adviser. ments. “We tranship everything – and we 30 semitrailer tractors metre silo trailers (for example for KAT2 “With the Schweinfurt railport, we offer com- offer a huge spectrum of services,” says Ved- 50 container chassis of various sizes and KAT3 food transport operations) panies access to the European rail network, der. With daily rail connections to the major and hazardous freight to aluminium and thereby to one of the most efficient trans- seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven, the 2 dump container chassis dump trucks and standard tarpaulin port modes available.” railport can function as a reliable link in na- 4 silo trailers 33–66 m³ semitrailers. The railport, which employs 38 people, is tional and international supply chains. One Project management: suitable loading 4 aluminium dump trucks an important transhipment site for the prod- other advantage should not be forgotten: rail, station for major projects. Flexibility and 3 standard tarpaulin semitrailers project experience as well as a qualified ucts of suppliers to the automotive industry. as the most environmentally friendly trans- Forklift trucks from 1.7 t to 25 t point of contact for transhipment and 130,000 tonnes of freight is transhipped an- port mode, makes the supply chains of cus- initial and final legs by HGV. nually here, with steel products making up tomers greener and more sustainable. an 2 reach stackers up to 44 t the bulk of that. The railport has assumed Contact | Hein Vedder HEIN VEDDER important functions in the supply chains of Telephone: +49 (0)9721 94909-15 industry – including just-in-time outsourcing. Contact | Wolfgang Rebhan

[email protected] PHOTO: “Anyone can offer contract logistics beyond Telephone: +49 (0)911 219-1960 the rail network but we want to integrate rail [email protected]

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transport logistic is Europe’s leading trade fair for logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management. Our Board Member for Sales, Raimund Stüer, would be delighted to meet you personally at the DB Cargo stand. As in previous years, DB Cargo would VISIT DB CARGO like to invite customers and other interested parties to come and find out more about IN HALL B6 its services, products and innovations. This year is a little different in that we will be STAND presenting our technical advancements and IT innovations in addition to our products. 209/310 AND 205/306!

bundled via the operator subsidiary TFG Transfracht. In European operations, the Intermodal Sales division works with operators such as Kombiverkehr and TEL. Customers can also learn more about top- ics such as the “European Network”, “Eco Solutions”, “myRailportal”, “Asset & Main- tenance Digitisation” and “Wagon Intelli- EXPERT gence”. DB Cargo will also be presenting the XRAIL: managed centrally – REPRESENTATIVES new Shimmns – the next generation coil working regionally transport wagon – in the outdoor area of the With around 4,200 customer sidings in DB Cargo is represented at the trade fair. Europe and access to one of the world’s trade fair by its Sales divisions The Regional Sales division offers interna- biggest rail networks, DB Cargo is the and other specialists. tional and cross-sector support to customers number 1 in European rail freight transport. The Industrial Sales division is made up in Germany and across Europe at more than To ensure the quality of single-wagon largely of the former Coal and Steel division 30 locations. Our Regional Sales staff are lo- transports for its customers across Europe, and the Rail Construction/Building Mater- cal specialists and will be happy to help. The DB Cargo has joined forces with six other ials, Fertilisers, Agriculture and Military division has extensive knowledge of local European rail freight companies to divisions. This Sales division is geared to- logistics sites and is in close communication establish Xrail. The Xrail network wards the traditional bulk goods business with regional partners. Regional Sales is also currently encompasses economic regions

Moving and it is also responsible for utilisation on your first point of contact if you are inter- in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Logistics the single-wagon network. The Europe-wide ested in DB Cargo’s services; they also spe- Switzerland, Benelux, Hungary and single-wagon system sets DB Cargo apart cialise in the development of customer northern Italy. If you’d like to know more INDUSTRY from the other rail companies, none of which sidings. about Xrail, please visit our stand! an offers an interlinked production system on this scale. The Logistics Sales division bundles all MEETING logistics-related sectors whose requirements TRANSPORT LOGISTIC 2017 – Trade Fair Supporting Programme go beyond rail transport. The Logistics Sales division includes the Automotive, Consum- er Goods, Wood, Pulp & Paper, and Chemi- Time Place Organiser Name POINT cals and Mineral Oil industries. Special 10:00 Forum III CHEManager The chemicals industry: transport logistics requirements are catered to with DB Hall B2 (East) infrastructure – vision and reality Cargo’s DBchem-solution and DBpaper-solution products, which are implemented in 10:00 Conference Federal Ministry of Workshop: telematics/hazardous cooperation with the customer. The division Room B12 Transport and Digital goods transports with electronic also offers customised logistics services and Infrastructure transport documents value-added services. The former Nieten and 12:00 Forum I BVL The logistics market in Iran: DB Schenker Rail Automotive sales com- Hall A6 opportunities and rules of the game

panies have been incorporated into the new 10.05.2017 DB Cargo Logistics company, as has DB 12:00 Forum III DVWG Südbayern e.V., The European intermodal transport Cargo BTT. Hall B2 (East) LKZ Prien of the future

Moving Logistics TRADE FAIR MUNICH BAHN, The Intermodal Sales division includes Carrier Sales and Operator Sales. Carrier 14:00 A618 DB Cargo Discover Czechia: make the best SCHE Sales refers to services for resellers, i.e. Hall B6 out of Czechia’s strong railway

DEUT freight forwarders and operators. Via the network in the heart of Europe Operator Sales branch, this Sales division 14:00 Forum III Schiffahrt Hafen Bahn Structural changes in container offers capacity in DB Cargo’s product net- Hall B2 (East) und Technik, Logistik + transport at European seaports COLLAGE: COLLAGE: work under its own utilisation responsibil- Transport Intermodal

9–12 MAY ity. This mainly involves maritime freight 11.05.2017 MUNICH TRADE FAIR 29 TRANSPORT LOGISTIC TRADE FAIR SEE OUR SHIMMNS WAGON IN THE OPEN- wagon. There is no need to work inside the AIR AREA wagon or go around it. “Being able to work TRACK 2/3 entirely on one side of a wagon gives us a sig- EUROPE’S THE PLATFORM nificant advantage in terms of occupational BIGGEST NETWORK safety and user friendliness,” says Turowski. Service and quality for customers: OF THE “So far, a wagon with a configuration like this with 15 strong national subsidiaries FUTURE simply does not exist on the market.” in key markets and other reliable The portal has a public and a customer- The new prototype illustrates how succes- partners, DB Cargo has woven a myRailportal offers integrated specific area with customised solutions. In THE NEXT sive improvements have been made to the close rail freight transport network digital communication between the public area, the user has access to a re- Shimmns coil transporter. Around 400 out so as to offer customers transport GENERATION operations from a single source and DB Cargo and its customers. vised freight wagon catalogue. There, with of a total of 1,200 older steel hood wagons at a consistent level of quality. With the help of a search tool, customers can OF COIL have already been comprehensively modern- around 4,200 rail freight sites in quickly and easily select the right wagon for ised since the beginning of 2016. They are now Europe, DB provides its customers magine a customer portal in which it’s their cargo. It also incorporates the DIUM TRANSPORTERS deployed under the Shimmns-ttu type desig- with access to one of the world’s possible to process everything from distance indicator and optimised multimod- nation. The construction of the wagons biggest rail networks. The rail freight one source, from placing the order to al rail access. Another new and user-friendly DB Cargo introduces the second allows the highest quality loading and trans- company is therefore in a position to monitoring transport operations and function is the ability to determine the near- prototype of a further developed portation. They have an innovative roof, im- manage Europe-wide transport reporting: that’s myRailportal. The est rail access point. The user simply has to Shimmns-ttu with a unique con- proved and additional seals, rubber mats in operations, offering high quality and WAGON Inew platform includes all the standard func- enter the location or exact address and the figuration. the coil cradles and ttu securing devices. The reliability. DB Cargo is focused on the INTELLIGENCE tions of the current Rail Service Online cus- nearest rail access point appears on the inter- automotive industry in particular relies on needs of its customers. Direct DB Cargo is rolling out the latest tomer service platform – but clearly goes active map. the high-quality transportation of its often connections on selected European generation of sensor technology to beyond that. myRailportal is “responsive”: myRailportal will continue to be devel- his wagon has not one design very expensive and sensitive goods. The mod- corridors – such as the one that links its wagons. This involves installing the North Sea ports and the Ruhr users can access it from any computer, as well oped and expanded in the coming years. “In engineer, but many: in numer- ernised Shimmns-ttu are wagons that have cabinets the size of a shoebox on region – meet the high expectations as from a smartphone or tablet. order to provide our customers with further ous workshops, DB Cargo em- been developed specifically with such cus- the wagons, which are connected to of customers. Shuttle transports For customers, partners and employees, added value, we are liaising with agile Bahn ployees have been working tomers in mind. Automotive suppliers bene- the mobile Internet. The sensors not such as the DBantwerp-rhine- myRailportal provides transparency along projects such as Mindbox or AmpulseLab together with their customers on fit from the fact that the wagons are only record the exact location of the shuttle link important economic the entire transport and logistics chain. One and are cultivating close relationships with Tthe continuous optimisation of the wagon particularly well-sealed against condensation wagon, but also the temperature centres quickly and smoothly. Stable, particular strength is its simple user interface. start-up companies,” explains Jürgen Bosse. fleet. The majority of these workshops take and drifting snow, allowing the transporta- and humidity of the load. They also well-utilised routes mean high- “You don’t need any special knowledge to be It goes without saying that close collabora- place on customer premises, but sometimes tion of coils to the production facilities with- record any impacts. The data is frequency services, offering custom- able to use myRailportal,” explains Jürgen tion with customers is the order of the day. also in DB Cargo’s own maintenance centres. out them sustaining any physical damage. transmitted directly to DB Cargo. ers maximum flexibility. By means of This allows material planners to Bosse, myRailportal and Customer Integra- DB Cargo has opened its own CustomerLab And this is how the Shimmns coil trans- DB Cargo will also be using the trade fair as special products, the rail company make decisions regarding the tion Manager at DB Cargo. “Users are guided in Duisburg for this very purpose. In the con- porter was successfully upgraded, too. The an opportunity to introduce the wagon’s in- offers tailored transport solutions to prioritisation of transports and pass customers and sectors with particu- intuitively through the menu.” It can also be ference room equipped with state-of-the-art latest prototype will be on show at the trans- novative solutions to problems that can occur on information about the status of larly high requirements – fast, tailored to meet the requirements of the cus- technology, the Deutsche Bahn invites its port logistic trade fair in Munich. It has four during transportation, loading or unloading. routes. Customers can access all reliable and with cutting-edge rolling tomer. “This allows us to connect with the customers to help develop the portal further. opening mechanisms in the front walls of the Such solutions include tarpaulin patches. information in real time via a stock. This superior quality repre- customer right from the beginning and ac- “The additional functions of today are the tarpaulin cover that make it easy to open up While repairs to rips in tarpaulin covers have configured dashboard in myRailpor- sents a clear competitive advantage. tively develop the solution together.” Quick standard functions of the future,” says Bosse. the wagon from the loading ramps. The mech- previously been very expensive, the tarpaulin tal (see the adjacent article). mh Find out more about what DB Cargo results that can be tested and developed fur- At the fair, customers have the opportunity anisms move independently of one another, patches are now easy to affix. It is no longer can do for you at our stand! ther are more important than strict project to get to know the portal, to test its function- which significantly increases the level of op- necessary to send many wagons to the work- plans and milestones. “Of course we work alities and be consulted on the solution that erational safety. Another innovation also shops. This means more wagons are constant- ECO SOLUTIONS with a target in mind,” says Bosse. “But it is would work best for them. mh BAHN promises gain: “The two arms used to secure ly available. The patches even seal up dirty fun to try out the possibilities hidden within the coil from the left and the right on the cra- tarpaulin covers immediately and can be ap- BY DB CARGO INSIGHT: the portal. And it makes you want to do dle are now connected by a drive unit,” ex- plied in practically any type of weather. This Scan the QR Transport places a strain on the DEUTSCHE more.” plains Markus Turowski from the DB Cargo provides optimal protection for moisture- climate and our environment. By Contact | Jürgen Bosse code and learn The standard functions are capable of dis- Industrial Sales division. This enables the coil sensitive loads. using the environmentally friendly Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-67426 more about the

PHOTO: PHOTO: Shimmns-ttu. railways, our customers play their playing all of the processes that occur be- [email protected] to be secured entirely from one side of the The wagons will also have the latest gen- part in ecological protection. At the tween the customers and DB Cargo. On their eration of sensor technology (see column on same time, they are also helping the own dashboard, users can track the status of the right). With this wagon intelligence – i.e. transport and logistics industry to their orders at a glance. This applies from the use of smart components within the ve- become greener. With its Eco placing an order for transporting freight or hicle – DB Cargo wants to offer its customers Solutions, DB Cargo is going further commissioning empty runs to tracking and the highest quality. Those interested can find to reduce its customers’ CO2 tracing transport operations. When placing out about and test for themselves the range of footprints. At our trade fair stand an order, customers can enter and cancel modern wagon intelligence options on the we provide information about the empty wagon orders directly via the portal wagon in the outdoor area and at the DB Cargo environmental advantages of rail, with little effort, and save order templates for stand. mh give advice on CO2-free transport operations, and calculate your future orders. It is also possible for customers potential emissions reduction. If to record and complete booking orders in their portal quickly and easily so that the two- you would like to do your bit for Contact | Markus Turowski sustainable freight transport, visit stage booking process is secured in the Netz- Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61134 our stand. werkbahn logic. [email protected]

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on network. In addition to daily business, Robert Nestler – like his colleagues at DB Cargo Logistics – has to deal with the major challenges his customers face: sustainability, digitisation and evolving production processes. “BMW is a prime example of a car manufacturer that has positioned itself as a pioneer in matters of sustainability; that is one of the reasons it relies on rail,” explains Nestler. “Along- side price and transit times, sustainability is playing an increasingly important role. Rail is CLOSE coming to the fore as an environmentally friend- TO ly transport mode.” BMW has long been using DB Cargo’s environmental product and a large CUSTOMERS percentage of its transport operations are carried

out completely CO2 -free with DBeco plus. As you might expect, this trend is also chang- RELIABLE ing the nature of the work at DB Cargo Logistics, PARTNER formerly known as DB Schenker Rail Automo- tive. Nestler has experienced this first- hand: Plant supplies: in Germany, DB “Over the last five years we have transformed Cargo is involved in supplying materials to around 250 suppliers to ourselves from a pure rail transporter to become the BMW plants in Regensburg, a true partner for BMW. These days we’re dis- Wackersdorf, Dingolfing, Landshut cussing logistics concepts across all modes of and Munich. transport and are functioning as a lead logistics The China train: each week, DB provider – with good references from the auto- Cargo transports up to 80 contain- With his customer BMW, Robert motive industry,” says Nestler. ers full of car parts destined for the Nestler is no longer discussing In terms of digitisation, BMW is keen to drive Chinese market from Regensburg the what is, but the what’s next. innovation and relies on networking and auto- and Leipzig to the Shenyang plant. The China train contract was mation in its manufacturing processes. Suppliers extended for a further three years in and logistics services providers are following August 2016. suit. “We are already planning and designing Engine manufacturing: DB Cargo Supply Chain 2020, and are con-sidering how manages the supply of quartz sand data and transparency could be improved with- to the Landshut foundry and is in the supply chain and implemented when thereby directly integrated into problems arise,” says Nestler. BMW’s engine production processes. hen a company such as BMW be- For this purpose, DB Cargo is setting up a dedi- Finished cars: DB Cargo trains comes one of the world’s leading cated business intelligence unit that is respon- transport finished cars to Bremer- THE PLANNING manufacturers of premium cars, it sible for developing the concepts of tomorrow haven and Cuxhaven. W means they have a firm handle on their sales, today. Shunting activities: DB Cargo production and, of course, their service provid- In day-to-day operations, the LINC software provides shunting services in the Regensburg and Dingolfing plants. ers. This applies in reverse, too: DB Cargo can platform for BMW is already providing both pride itself with good reason that BMW has partners with a high level of data transparency. become a major global player. With services In the transports between Germany and China,

FUTURE such as the China transport operations and the all the partners along the transport chain are DB CARGO contract to supply the Landshut foundry with connected to the IT platform. BMW’s partners LOGISTICS quartz sand, DB Cargo has taken over import- in China will be the next to be integrated. ant tasks at BMW. There are some landmark decisions to be The company is one of the biggest service providers for the automotive “For BMW it is very important that its logis- made over the next year: “BMW is putting the industry. Up to 250 trains supply up The automotive industry is one tics service providers also take on overall logis- management of the European production net- to 30 car manufacturing plants of the most fascinating of all. tics responsibility,” says Robert Nestler, Head works out for tender – which is clearly of im- across the whole of Europe each day. Mobility, digitisation, individu- of Sales and Operations at DB Cargo Logistics. mense interest to us,” says Nestler. Even though The sales teams at DB Cargo alisation – car manufacturers “By now we have gained a pretty good reputa- he has been working for DB Cargo in the auto- Logistics are geared towards the have to engage with all these tion and can take on this responsibility.” The motive industry since 2003, the sector still has customers and their production developments in a global mar- 36-year-old is, as part of a three-strong team, a firm hold on him. “No doubt about it –there processes.

BINNER ket. It is for this reason that responsible for supporting BMW with mater- are a lot of exciting aspects to the sector,” says Kai Birnstein manages the Compon- they rely on efficient suppliers ials and parts, all the way from the conception Nestler. an

ents division, which has five sales HRIN and service providers such as stage to quotes, contracts and operations. 23 and operations teams – among them KAT Martin Fildebrandt and Robert DB Cargo – and their inter- trains transport freight for the Munich-based Contact | Robert Nestler Nestler’s team. The Finished Cars national supply chains shape car manufacturer every week, as well as sev- Telephone: +49 (0)6107 509-840

division is managed by Christian Lang. PHOTO: the whole logistics industry. eral shipments sent via DB Cargo’s single-wag- [email protected]

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to Asia than ever before, and more of this freight is being packed in containers. These are now not only transported by container vessels; time-sensitive freight is increasingly being transported by rail. This is an excellent opportunity for DB Cargo to expand the iron land bridge to China and to offer transport operations with short, reliable transport times.

PROCESS CHECKS WITH THE CUSTOMER “We spent some time in the German town of Speyer recently, where there is a kind of con- solidation centre for freight heading abroad,” says Fildebrandt. Their task was to get to know and to develop an understanding of the processes on both sides, so that they could then guarantee that the implementation of When Martin Fildebrandt is the transport operations would go smoothly. PERSISTENCE convinced of the advantages of a In addition to the established locations in service, he’s always determined Bremen and Stuttgart, the Speyer site is an to win over his customers with important starting point for supplying the IS KEY it, too – even if it takes years to Daimler plant in Beijing. After countless test do so. transport operations over the previous years, DB Cargo Logistics has been managing up to 50 container transport operations per week over the 11,000-kilometre land bridge to Bei- he car manufacturing industry jing since April 2016. “With a flexible net- has to respond to trends more work in Germany and highly developed quickly than almost any other management expertise, we have been consist- sector. This is true not only for ently promoting the land bridge as an ideal major car manufacturers such product for short-notice requirements and Tas Daimler, the world’s biggest premium car volatile container numbers since 2012,” says company, but also for their suppliers, service Fildebrandt. “The many years spent trying providers and advisers. Martin Fildebrandt, to persuade people are paying off!” Head of Sales & Operations Centre/Key Ac- Daimler and DB Cargo Logistics are also STRONG NETWORK count Manager at DB Cargo Logistics (for- working together closely on the issue of dig- It obviously helps that DB Cargo Logistics can merly DB Schenker Rail Automotive) in itisation. “Our LINC Daimler IT software is make use of DB Cargo’s strong, Europe-wide Kelsterbach, has been working with Daimler a platform that offers excellent transparency network, even for smaller transport oper- for many years and is responsible for com- and huge potential for future services,” ex- ations. Fildebrandt, who has been working at ponents transports for the company, its sub- plains Fildebrandt. IT interfaces with part- Deutsche Bahn since 2001, and his team are sidiaries and suppliers. 14 trains operate in ners and customers reduce the manual work in constant communication with the dis- CLOSE the Daimler RailNet system every day, deliv- involved in complex transport flows and in- patching and production teams to ensure the TO ering components to the various production crease processes stability. “The tracking and quality of transport operations and improve sites. “The customer’s requirements are tracing function allows us to display the them where possible. The international pro- CUSTOMERS changing constantly,” says Fildebrandt. transported freight to Daimler with absolute duction corridors, which are managed under “These days we have to respond to three main transparency.” a clear division of responsibility, are another trends. The Asian market is becoming more And, finally, the issue of expert advice: important aspect of this work. “The corridor and more important; the demand for digitisa- “Our customer really values detailed and to eastern and south-eastern Europe, espe- STRONG tion is increasing; and customers are focusing expert advice on transport times, costs and cially, is becoming increasingly important,” PARTNER on their core competencies and are demand- concepts. We’ve been able to establish a solid says Fildebrandt with an eye on the future. Network: DB Cargo established ing increasingly comprehensive, holistic and basis of trust over the last few years as a re- He is already in discussions with Daimler,

Daimler RailNet in 2010 as an BINNER intermodal logistics and management con- sult,” says Fildebrandt. These days, the cus- planning the transport operations of the fu- exclusive transport network for cepts.” tomer is no longer demanding road or rail ture. If he gets his way, even more trains will Daimler. Nine European Mercedes These are challenging issues for the service offerings. It’s expecting solutions that be travelling to China, Russia, Poland, Roma- Benz plants are now linked by road KATHRIN 35-year-old and his team in Kelsterbach. They complement the various transport modes in nia and Hungary for Daimler soon. an and rail and are managed centrally regularly meet with their customer to discuss an economically feasible and reliable way. “Of from a single source.

PHOTO: PHOTO: potential solutions and ways of further de- course, our contact persons at Daimler know Plant supply: locations in Germany veloping Daimler RailNet in future. They can that the rail system is subject to external in- and Hungary are supplied by rail via a central hub in Kornwestheim, already point to some successes, for example fluences. But they do expect us to handle Contac | Martin Fildebrandt where incoming wagons are bundled the transport operations to Asia. More ve- disruptions well and to manage the transport Telephone: +49 (0)6107 509-885 for the respective destinations. hicles and components are being transported operations reliably,” explains Fildebrandt. [email protected]

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ergies between the various departments – both within our company and the customer’s.” The trains arrive in Valencia from the UK, Germany and the port of Santander. Trans- fesa is responsible for a wide range of tasks. In addition to receiving and shunting the wagons within the terminal, the logistics EXPANDED expert also manages the locomotives on site. Transfesa staff also take care of the transhipment of freight from the train onto waiting SERVICES FOR lorries that then take the containers to the plants. The logistics expert manages the de- CAR MANUFACTURER livery of the containers in close coordination with Ford’s requirements on the production lines. Transfesa also takes on logistics tasks FORD relating to finished vehicles. The company is responsible for shunting trains in the loading and unloading zones – in this case in close consultation with Production.

COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF SERVICES he Spanish DB Cargo subsidiary Transfesa has been actively working with Transfesa is expanding its exist- Ford in three areas. The rail freight company ing services for the car manufac- transports finished vehicles and vehicle com- turer Ford. Transfesa is taking ponents from plants to seaports and other on the logistics management of distribution centres. It also tranships con- Transfesa takes on operation of Ttransport operations, from the arrival of the tainers for Ford and delivers swap bodies with a multimodal terminal for Ford train at the Valencia multimodal terminal to vehicle components to various Ford plants. in Spain. the delivery of the containers to the different The Spanish logistics expert operates a plants. Ford has significantly expanded its total of four multimodal terminals. Five operations in Valencia. The plant in Almus- 400-metre-long platforms are available at the safes ranks as one of the world’s most flexible Constantí Terminal near Tarragona, where production sites; up to five different car mod- around 60,000 containers are transhipped els are built here. Ford also manufactures each year. Around 35,000 units are tran- engines at another of its plants in Valencia. shipped each year on the three 450-metre- “The car company has once again placed its long platforms at the Granollers Terminal trust in Transfesa, commissioning the com- near Barcelona. At the Abroñigal Terminal pany with the management of the ‘last mile’ near Madrid there are 13 platforms, each 430 in the supply chain. That covers the logistics metres long, and these are used to tranship management of containers between the ar- around 100,000 units. Granollers and Con- rival of the train to delivery to the various stantí Terminals are managed in a special plants,” says Pedro Ramos, Transfesa’s form of joint venture, in Spain referred to as Global Ford Key Account Manager. “In “UTE” (Temporary Union of Companies), Valencia, Transfesa is responsible for in- with SLISA, and Transfesa holding a major- bound and outbound management, i.e. the ity share of it. Abroñigal is managed in a delivery of parts and components to the plant “UTE” with Renfe Mercancías and Transfesa and the transportation of finished vehicles holding an equal share of it. Finally, the Al- from the plant.” mussafes Terminal near Valencia allows Transfesa processes around 2,000 containers 7,000 units to be transhipped on its 16 at the terminal each month, of which around 450-metre-long platforms. an half go to the Ford plants. Around 2,300 Ford’s finished vehicles are moved each month on Transfesa trains. To achieve this, Transfesa is closely integrated into Ford’s production system at the Contact | Pedro Ramos Vila

multimodal terminal. “Transfesa is incor- Telephone: +34 961797423 IMAGES [email protected] Y porated into Ford’s assembly process and GETT works at the terminal as an extension of the Contact | Modesto Montuenga Sánchez BILDAGENTUR NACHNAME; VORNAME customer,” says Pedro Ramos. “The basis for Telephone: +34 913879999

this strong focus on the customer is the syn- [email protected] PHOTO: FOTOS:

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MOTOR CITY: Kaluga, to the south-west of Moscow, is Russia’s car manufacturing capital. Volkswagen assem- bles cars here for the Rus- sian market. As a general contractor, DB Cargo Logis- tics – working with its partners – manages the transportation of car parts from Germany and the Czech Republic to Russia.

KEY IT SYSTEM time. The order details relating to each con- That said, the logistics specialists face huge DB Cargo Logistics used agile software devel- RELIABLY LINC-ed To make all this possible, DB Cargo uses an tainer then flow into the system, and add- challenges on the route. Different languages, opment to programme the process: “We have IT system that allows both the customer and itional relevant transport data is added customs arrangements, track gauges and re- avoided the time-consuming processes that DB Cargo implements an intelli- the logistics expert to know exactly where during the HGV leg between the shipper and lated transhipment processes in the Bela- go hand in hand with the preparation of re- gent IT system to manage each transport unit is located at any given GVZ Wolfsburg. russian city of Brest make each transport quirements specifications before program- deliveries for car plants in t is an anniversary marked by dif- time. “Today, we have in LINC.Rus a dy- Craning operations onto rail are also re- operation a complex process. “The Kaluga ming; we used a new process known as Russia. ficult conditions. It is now ten namic, multilingual and technically very corded, complete with the corresponding transport operation is one of the major ones prototyping,” says Brouwer. This method years since car manufacturers be- sophisticated IT platform,” says Mirco Beck- wagon number and sequence. The consign- at DB Cargo that is continuously subject to quickly leads to results and offers all users a gan producing cars bound for the er, who is responsible for IT systems engi- ment notes are prepared after a completeness changes,” says Preußing. “As a result, the solution approach that is acceptable for Russian market in Kaluga, 180 neering at DB Cargo Logistics in Kelsterbach check has been performed. The various op- current version of LINC.Rus will need to be everyone thanks to the early feedback pro- Ikilometres south-west of Moscow. The city and who jointly developed the platform with erators relay container- and wagon-based sta- developed continuously.” vided. This allowed the team and the external has developed into a Russian automobile Christian Brouwer from Product Manage- tus data during the transport operation, until programmers not only to work more quickly metropolis as more and more suppliers set ment. As a central management unit, LINC. the train finally arrives at Kaluga or Nizhny NEW DEVELOPMENT PROCESS and flexibly, but also at a lower cost. “We up operations in the city. This is happening Rus (LINC stands for Logistics Information Novgorod. The system is then updated with DB has developed a completely new IT sys- were able to present our users, whom we re- not only because the expertise of the major Concept, while Rus refers to Russia) covers confirmation that the transport operation has tem for this purpose; it can be adjusted to gard as our most important ‘co-developers’, manufacturers is concentrated in one loca- the planning, booking, commissioning and been successfully completed. meet changing requirements thanks to its with progress in terms of programming at a tion but also because companies such as billing processes of the whole supply chain flexible architecture. DB introduced the pre- very early stage and we implemented the Volkswagen are ensuring the supply of vital between Wolfsburg and Kaluga. REGULAR DATA ENTRY decessor system LINC-Kaluga for VW trans- required changes very quickly,” explains components by establishing intelligent and The IT system makes it possible to track “Bringing together the transport and service port operations in 2008, purely as an order Brouwer. “This approach meant that the par- well-designed logistics chains. the location of each container at all times and data from the various systems previously used management system. However, because this ties involved were highly motivated because DB Cargo Logistics is playing an important it clearly and optimally displays the progres- into a single system makes the key data from system was limited in terms of its data entry they were able to follow developments in the part in these developments. As a general con- sion of each complex transport operation. all the parties involved available in a clear and and transfer features, DB Cargo Logistics system as they happened.” Today, LINC.Rus tractor, the rail freight company – together Initial legs by HGV are processed through complete form,” says Steffen Preußing from began on redevelopment work in summer has become a model for other IT projects, with OJSC TransContainer, a subsidiary of the platform, as are container orders and sta- Sales at DB Cargo Logistics. “This is the only 2014. “We integrated all our partners and helping to improve the management of other the Russian rail company RZD – is managing tus information updates on international way to know exactly where the containers are service providers into the process, designing car transport operations. an container transport operations for car parts borders. The shipper in Germany enters the at any given time.” This transparency, in turn, the various interfaces in conjunction with by rail from Germany and the Czech Repub- order, which is then checked by DB Cargo’s makes it possible for trains to operate like them. In March 2015, we went live with 80 lic to Russia. The rail freight specialist coord- customer service department. The GVZ clockwork in eastern Europe despite the per cent of the system and we’ve been devel- inates the activities of five rail companies and Wolfsburg Terminal, where the containers various challenges. “With the new LINC.Rus oping LINC.Rus further ever since,” explains

several other operators and subcontractors. are reloaded onto rail, receives the informa- JEREMY NICHOLL tool, DB Cargo is offering us great transpar- Becker. “Much of it is automated by now – Around 700 containers travel the route be- tion about which containers are to be dis- ency on these routes, which makes our trans- and our billing processes are also based on it.” tween the European plants and Russia in both patched via LINC.Rus, and the terminal port operations even more efficient,” confirms The customer also has access to relevant data Contact | Steffen Preußing

directions each week. The five-day journey commissions DB Intermodal Services with PHOTOS: Sergej Gorbunov, Head of In- and Outbound at all times and can thereby gain an overview Telephone: +49 (0)511 286-2652 takes the freight through several countries. the HGV transport operations at the same at Volkswagen Group RUS in Kaluga. of the complete supply chain. [email protected]

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take-over of goods from the Unilever location in Mannheim to the delivery to the customer, i.e. the retailer. “These transport operations for Unilever are time- and volume-sensitive full-load transports,” says Karsten Rotter, Key Account Manager for Unilever at DB Cargo, adding: “That’s a great responsibility and commitment for us, but also quite an honour.”

MINIMUM SIZE: EIGHT PALLETS With this new contract, DB Cargo is now responsible for the distribution of partial loads from the Unilever warehouse in Mannheim to customers in the German postcode areas 17 to 29. “So the recipient could be a supermarket in Kiel or in Bremen,” explains Karsten Rotter. “Provided the order is at least eight pallets or more.” Anything less than that is categorised as break bulk cargo and is distributed through a different supply chain. and toiletries, food, household products Once every day the respective employee at and fabric care products. Unilever owns ogistics operations involving consum- DB Schenker Nieten receives a list of end famous brands such as Knorr, Wall’s, Lynx, er goods for chain stores are a tricky customers and their requirements. In Freilas- Dove, Persil, Domestos and PG Tips. As part L business. It’s vital that goods are deliv- sing, the part loads are assembled together of the “Unilever Sustainable Living Plan”, ered punctually to their destination, other- into complete loads and transported to the the company has set itself the goal of helping wise supermarket shelves will be left empty. DB Cargo Logistics Centre in Maschen, more than a billion people to improve their The demands on the supply chain are high: where DB Schenker Hamburg takes care of health and sense of wellbeing by the year everything must flow smoothly over a num- the fine distribution over the last mile. 2020; to halve the environmental impact of ber of stages. DB Cargo’s transport concept is based on its products by 2030; and to improve the liv- The British–Dutch consumer goods manu- overnight connections. Retailers order the ing conditions of millions of people by 2020. facturer Unilever makes particularly big de- goods they need from Unilever’s main Ger- Unilever took the top position in the Dow MORE mands of its supply chain. It is no coincidence man warehouse in Mannheim by midday. Jones Sustainability Index in the food sector that Gartner, a US market research institute, This is commissioned in the warehouse dur- in 2015. has named the company the European front- ing the afternoon and loaded in Mannheim For DB Cargo, this contract is another step runner year after year. Gartner compiles a at 6 p.m. “Together with DB Schenker Ni- to becoming lead logistics provider (LLP), RESPONSIBILITY ranking of the companies with the best sup- eten, we’ve developed a cargo space optimisa- offering a complete logistics chain from a ply chains at its annual Supply Chain Execu- tion concept for the customer,” says Karsten single source. And it is doing so with just-in- tive Conference in London. The institute has Rotter. “It involves using rail wagons with 44 time transports, where any shortfalls have to singled out the sustainability aspect of Uni- pallet bays. This allows us to put four lorries be immediately made up for using HGV back- FOR lever’s operations. The consumer goods with a total of 132 pallet bays onto three wag- ups. “Time is of the essence, especially when manufacturer makes extensive use of rail to ons – optimal utilisation. The load is trans- goods are being transported from the ware- transport its products, which results in 80 ported to the north of Germany overnight house to the retailers,” explains Karsten Rot-

per cent less CO2 emissions per cargo tonne and arrives in Maschen the next morning. ter. Food and personal care is a high-end DB CARGO compared to HGV. The goods are put on lorries and transported segment in logistics. You have to be fast to Unilever has now passed on even more onwards to the retailers; DB Schenker is re- keep up. When retailers place re-orders, you DB Cargo is taking on new full-load transport operations for Unilever, thereby proving that responsibility to DB Cargo, and the rail sponsible for fine distribution. only have a total of 48 hours until the goods it can manage complex just-in-time logistics projects from a single source. freight company has been providing an ad- have to be with the customer. mh ditional service for the consumer goods giant BECOMING AN LLP since last summer. DB Cargo not only takes Unilever is one of the world’s biggest con- care of the transportation of goods from Ter- sumer goods companies and it employs Contact | Karsten Rotter minal A to Terminal B, it is now also respon- around 168,000 people. Its key business Telephone:+49 (0)6131 15-61661 sible for the initial and final legs – from the areas include the production of cosmetics [email protected]

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London welcomed the first train from China with great fanfare on 18 January 2017. DB Cargo is connecting more and more European countries to Asia by rail – with the UK now among them.

“This now means that we, as a European rail freight company, can offer our customers in the UK and in China a direct train connection for the first time. That is truly unique,” explains Hans-Georg Werner, CEO of DB Cargo UK. “The freight train closes a gap in the market between fast but expensive air 34 x 40-foot containers unique to the UK freight transport and relatively slow sea ves- are reloaded onto special DB container plat- sel transports.” forms, which are approved for the profile of DB CARGO Traction was provided by various rail com- the Eurotunnel. panies, with DB Cargo assuming responsibil- DB Cargo already has extensive experi- DEVELOPS ity for the section between Duisburg and ence with transport operations on the London via the Eurotunnel. The Intermodal world’s longest rail route. The rail company division, under the direction of Dirk Steffes, and its partners have been operating week- THE was responsible for organisation. He com- ly container trains to China and back since mented: “We’re delighted that we have been 2011. There are train links from Duisburg LAND BRIDGE able to implement the DB strategy of devel- and Hamburg to Wuhan, Chongqing and oping the China transport operations.” Harbin, and a connection was established The operator of the container-carrying in summer 2016 between Hamburg and the TO CHINA train is the InterRail Group, an international Chinese province of Hefei. A record number transport company headquartered in Swit- of 40,000 containers was transported by zerland, and the customer was a Chinese rail on the “Iron Silk Road” in 2016. DB he BBC was particularly enthusi- container company. The 34 containers were Cargo expects this to increase to 100,000 astic, sending a camera crew to film loaded mainly with clothes, as well as techni- containers by 2020. the arrival of the first freight train cal components and consumer goods. A lot The 12,000-kilometre journey usually from China at London’s Barking of clothes and textiles destined for the Euro- takes between 12 and 16 days. The service Terminal on 18 January 2017. There pean market are produced in Yiwu, which is is used by customers with time-sensitive Twas just as much interest when the train located south of Shanghai in the Chinese goods such as promotional clothing items departed Yiwu, 12,000 kilometres away, 18 province of Zhejiang. and capital-intensive goods such as automo- days previously. The China Rail locomotive The train passed through eight countries tive parts and electronics. mh was decorated with a dragon, the Chinese on its journey to the UK: China, Kazakhstan, symbol of protection. The BBC called it the Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium “Silk Train”, in reference to the famous Silk and France. The train had to be unloaded and CERTIFIED Road that linked China and Europe for cen- reloaded twice on its way through Asia be- Contact | Martin Ritterhaus DB Cargo UK has created world-class wheel lathe facilities, turies and which is now being revived by the cause of the wider gauge on the tracks in Rus- Telephone: +49 (0)6131 15-61660 RAIL which external customers can now also make use of. railways. sia. At the Duisburg container terminal the [email protected] EXPERTISE

Production capabilities at DB Cargo UK Toton. The key to this is the introduction of UK has focused on modernising the facilities have been further improved in recent months a new wheel lathe facility which enables at Axiom Rail. with the creation of new wheel lathe facilities maintenance to be carried out on wheelsets Now, with this latest modernisation, the at its Toton depot and accreditation from the without them being removed. This makes the workshops are well-equipped for the future. Railway Industry Supplier Approval Scheme process faster and more efficient and means “These developments build on DB Cargo (RISAS) for its work at Stoke. that services can now also be offered to exter- UK’s ability to service its own fleet and add DB Cargo UK’s Axiom Rail workshop in nal companies. “We’ve created world class to the services it can offer to external com- Stoke-on-Trent was awarded a highly coveted facilities,” says a proud Andrew Byrne, Head panies, too,” explains Byrne. “This demon- RISAS accreditation in autumn 2016. This of Maintenance at DB Cargo UK. strates DB Cargo UK’s dedication to qualifies the company to offer wheelset A subsidiary of DB Cargo UK, Axiom Rail advancing technology and new innovations manufacture and overhaul to the external is an important service provider for the rail and developments.” mh BAHN, DEUTSCHE BAHN UK DEUTSCHE BAHN BAHN, market. freight operator. Through its second line of The company already manufactures wheel- business, Axiom Rail Components, it deliv- sets for part of its fleet, including its Class 66 ers innovative type LN25 freight suspension DEUTSCHE locomotives, along with regular wagon systems, which are around 50 per cent wheelsets. quieter than conventional bogies. Contact | Andrew Byrne

Additionally, DB Cargo UK has improved Since acquiring the workshop from the Telephone: +44 (0)1302 576290 PHOTOS: the offerings at its maintenance workshop in former rail company EWS in 2005, DB Cargo [email protected]

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THETHE POLLMEIERPOLLMEIER SAWMILLSAWMILL ININ MALCHOWMALCHOW HASHAS BEENBEEN REOPENEDREOPENED

Now, less than a decade later, the situation is a very different one. Customer demand for high-quality sawn timber is on the rise again, higher prices are paid for hardwood timber on the global market, and the availability of wood from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and other German states has improved. Plenty of reasons for Pollmeier to bring the Malchow location back into use. The special feature of the Malchow site is that the sawmill – like another Pollmeier sawmill in Aschaffenburg – is now supplied to a great extent by rail, even though the unloading point in Malchow lies outside the plant itself. Based on the positive experi- ences Pollmeier has had working with DB Cargo Logistics (previously DB Schenker The Malchow sawmill was Nieten) in Aschaffenburg over the last few forced to close six years ago. It years, the company decided to commission reopened this year – now with DB Cargo Logistics with the work of supply- sidings. ing the enormous volumes of freight in an WOOD – A VULNER- environmentally friendly way in Malchow plant itself, the freight has to be transported ABLE RESOURCE: too. “We need rail to ensure a continuous and over the last 400 metres from the unloading idyllic conditions, at lexibility means being able to balanced supply of round wood,” says Ralf point to the log yard using road vehicles. In least visually. Plant EUROPEAN respond quickly to trends and Perske, Head of Production at the Malchow the short term it is expected that freight vol- building with wet MARKET LEADER developments. For the beech tim- plant. “It’s the only viable way to get suffi- umes will remain at their current level, but storage yard. Pollmeier operates Europe’s biggest ber company Pollmeier it means cient volumes of round wood to the plant.” both partners are planning to gradually in- hardwood sawmills. The first Poll- even more than that – namely Nine hundred wagons arrive at the Aschaf- crease transport volumes over the medium meier sawmill, in Creuzburg/Thur- Freopening a sawmill that had previously shut fenburg mill alone each beech tree season. term. ingia, went into operation in 1996. down and connecting it to the rail network That’s all the more impressive considering “This contract requires detailed coordina- The second sawmill, in Malchow/ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, again – as happened recently in Malchow in that a beech tree season is only nine months tion between the sawmill, the Berlin produc- followed four years later, and a third Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. long, lasting from September to May. tion centre and DB Cargo Logistics GmbH’s sawmill, in Aschaffenburg/Bavaria, The reasons behind these developments To ensure that the supply of round wood operations team,” explains Friedbert Mock, opened in 2007 – this is also supplied are to be found in the global timber market. is reliable and aligned with Pollmeier’s pro- Customer Advisor at DB Cargo Logistics. The by DB Cargo. Pollmeier employs more In 2010, Pollmeier was forced to close its saw- duction processes, DB Cargo Logistics and timber freight must be delivered in appropri- than 700 people, with 70 jobs created mill in Malchow. The company is a leading Pollmeier have agreed on a tailored and sus- ate volumes based on Pollmeier’s production in Malchow alone in 2016. producer of hardwood products in Europe tainable solution for supplying the plant by programme plans, bearing in mind that the Pollmeier entered a new line of and is a global leader in the sawn beech timber rail. The most important element of the con- Malchow freight transport site is currently business in 2014 with the construction of the first laminated veneer lumber market. In 2010, there was no longer enough tract is the integration of the wagon flows only serviced by DB Cargo twice a week. round beech timber available in Mecklen- into interlocking round trip concepts, which “That only works because everyone involved plant at the Creuzburg site. Using GETTY IMAGES BAHN, hardwood to manufacture laminated burg-Western Pomerania to keep the sawmill means that the first wagons can be reloaded in the process is working with great reliabil- veneer lumber for timber construction busy. Transporting timber from further afield by other customers in Malchow. In addition, CHE ity and flexibility,” says Mock. an was a pioneering move. Known as was not economically viable due to the low Pollmeier guarantees continuous transport DEUTS BauBuche, the product is a high- prices paid for the end product internation- volumes. Since last October, an average of strength construction material that ally. To make matters worse, demand for more than 60 raw timber wagons from DB boasts qualities unmatched by any Contact | Friedbert Mock

other wood construction product. beech timber collapsed, both in Germany and Cargo Logistics’ fleet have been delivering PHOTOS: Telephone: +49 (0)171 5617928 around the world. round wood to the plant each month. In the [email protected]

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IN DEMAND faster and more regular trains on the new GO FIGURE! SIGN OF THE TIMES SAVE THE DATE line in the coming year, the risk of collision will increase. We’re worried about species Upcoming trade fairs and sec- conservation. We can’t allow protected spe- tor events with DB Cargo – cies such as the kite, the white-tailed sea come and see us there! eagle, the eagle owl and the wolf to be affect- ed by this increase in traffic. And then of course there’s the fact that large animals can 196 The sector gathers in cause significant damage to a locomotive or Munich for transport logistic railcar. 05-08 www.transportlogistic.de/ May 2017 But aren’t railway tracks a natural DB Cargo has sold 196 barrier? class 151 and 155 loco- M_____Wild animals don’t always per- motives to a consortium, Made in Steel in Milan is the ceive train tracks and the overhead lines as which is transferring 17-19 leading trade fair for the Italian a danger or a barrier. However, a lot of spe- them to a vehicle fleet steel industry cies have to roam around, so collisions with for subsequent leasing. May 2017 www.madeinsteel.it wild animals do happen sometimes. In conservation areas especially we can’t just This will enable DB fence off the line or build a tunnel, so we’ve Cargo to lease loco- had to look for alternative solutions. motives more efficiently depending on demand. IMPRINT What are your plans? Consortium members PUBLISHED BY M_____We’ve started a monitoring and include Munich-based DB Cargo risk management programme. We’re hop- Marketing ing that the results don’t point to an in- locomotive leasing Edmund-Rumpler-Straße 3 60549 Frankfurt am Main crease in collisions involving wild animals. company Railpool and GROWTH: the economy is growing, as are the population and resource consumption However, if they do, we use game fence to the Japanese technology – so it’s good to know that the forested area in Europe is actually expanding. One RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT Sebastian Schilling (V.i.S.d.P.) close off the rail track and to guide wildlife company Toshiba. Re- reason for this is sustainable forest management. Senior Vice President Sales Development and to crossings at the same level. We have sponsibility for vehicle Marketing eight main crossing axes planned. At a later Kai Maaß Head of Commercial Model maintenance will re- FLASHES stage, we will erect signal posts at these PROJECT LEADER points to scare off animals with sounds and main with Deutsche World Commission on Environment and Marcella Diestel OF LIGHT flashes of light. It’s important that the Development, chaired by the former Nor- +49 (0)69 265 34464 Bahn. DB Cargo also [email protected] sounds are natural in origin, for example plans to develop hybrid wegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundt- AND animal distress calls. land, defined long-term (sustainable) PUBLISHERS locomotives with TERRITORY development as “Development that meets CALLS OF Toshiba. With an aver- Content to Results GmbH That doesn’t work with birds ... the needs of the present without com- Bei den Mühren 1, 20457 Hamburg M_____Collisions result in carrion, age age of over 40 years, A TRACK promising the ability of future generations DISTRESS EDITORS which attracts birds of prey and wolves. the shunting engine RECORD OF to meet their own needs.” Axel Novak (an, dir.), Wild animals and freight trains We’re therefore setting up the system so fleet of DB Cargo will Since then, sustainability has been a Mirko Heinemann (mh) that it is geared towards driving away fashionable topic and one used as a label don’t mix well. Ulrich Mölke is soon reach its maximum SUSTAINABILITY PUBLISHING MANAGERS responsible for making sure hoofed game such as deer and wild boar for all kinds of products. Today, companies service life. New hybrid Gregor Kupper wildlife stays away from the when a train approaches the crossing. If and politicians talk of a three-pillar con- Felix Rosburg locomotives would be tracks in Saxony. no animals are killed, there’s nothing to Sustainability is one of the buzzwords cept that includes the three areas of eco- DESIGN attract the wolves or the birds of prey. able to replace the old used by trade, industry and service pro- nomics, culture and society on an Falk Heckelmann We’re currently carrying out correspond- vehicles. an viders to promote their products, both in- ecological foundation. PHOTO EDITING Mr Mölke, are you a hunter? ing tests in the game enclosure in Moritz- ternally and externally. But where does DB Cargo is also committed to working Kay Wolters M_____No, but I am the Project Lead on burg, in partnership with the Technical the word come from? And why has it be- on the issue of sustainability and prides it- the expansion of the Knappenrode–Horka University in Dresden. come so popular that there is hardly a self on its excellent track record. Rail PRINTERS DB Kommunikationstechnik GmbH railway line, so I do have to deal with wild company out there that does not boast freight transport is one of the most envir- Akazienweg 9, 76287 Rheinstetten (Baden) animals. You develop a certain affinity to What are the next steps? about how sustainable its products and onmentally friendly modes of transport ISSN 1867-9668 wildlife when you work with it for many M_____We’re hoping this year to get the services are? available but DB Cargo has also imple- years like this! concept ready for implementation at the Hans Carl von Carlowitz is often called mented a number of internal measures to Helping the environment – published on ECF paper. test site, so that we can then build a testing the father of sustainability. He worked in become even more efficient and sustain- DB Cargo’s website: www.dbcargo.com Your job involves making sure facility on the line next year. Everything Issue 02 | 2017 of railways will be forestry in the 17th and 18th centuries able. Furthermore, due to electrification animals are kept away from the should be up and running when the line is published in June 2017. and he put forward the simple idea that and the fully developed network philoso- INFORMATION FOR NEW CUSTOMERS: BAHN, GETTY IMAGES (2) GETTY IMAGES BAHN, you should only harvest as many trees in a phy, DB Cargo can offer products and ser- DB Cargo AG tracks. Is it a big problem? Masurenallee 33 M_____A lot of animals don’t perceive forest as could grow back naturally in the vices that are even more sustainable. With 47005 Duisburg freight trains travelling at 80 or 100 km/h To contact the editorial team, near term. This principle aspired to the its Eco Solutions product, for example, DB E-mail: [email protected] DEUTSCHE Service number for new customers: acoustically, they perceive them visually or Contact | Ulrich Mölke and for collector’s files and forest surviving in the long term – and it Cargo offers customers the option of mak- +49 (0)203 9851-9000 because of the vibration. They often fail to Telephone: +49 (0)351 461-25140 subscriptions: can be transferred to other commodities ing their operations more environmentally

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