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More runs on TX Logistik’s Leipzig-Verona intermodal service

As of 5 April 2022, the company’s trains link DUSS-Terminal in Germany with the Sommacampagna-Sona facility in Italy eight instead of six times per week. The LeipzigVerona round-trips include a stopover in the Austrian Hall. A single train set offers the capacity of 34 units for carrying both containers (including bulk and tank) and trailers. The company says it will likely further increase the frequency of the Leipzig-Verona service, following the current high market demand for rail transport capacity. First, the Tango Rail Line has been put in place, offering a once per week round-trip between the Belgian port (MPET, AG, PSA) and Birsterminal in Birsfelden (via Terminal Container Athus in southern Belgium). Second, Contargo has linked its Industrial Park Frankfurt-Höchst with the Port of Antwerp. It is also a weekly connection, with the train sets leaving Frankfurt on Mondays and arriving in Antwerp the next day.

Photo: TX Logistik

Dutch post back on rails – after 25 years

The country’s PostNL has kicked off a rail service, which sees trailer train sets going weekly between Coevorden and Oslo. The connection will be one of the means of helping the Dutch postal company decrease its carbon footprint by 80%/kilometre versus the 2017 level. The CoevordenOslo service will be some 70% environmentally friendlier than pure truck transports, saving around 30t of CO2/year.

New Norway-Finland rail service

With the help of CargoNet and Nurminen Logistics, the Norwegian Port of Narvik will set up a twice a month route linking it with the Haparanda-Tornio SwedishFinnish border crossing. The service is due for launch in late April 2022. CargoNet will be responsible for the Norway-through-Sweden rail leg, while Nurminen Logistics for freight forwarding within Finland. Meanwhile, Norway’s rail infrastructure manager Bane NOR is upgrading the Port of Norvik’s rail freight terminal to handle 100k TEUs/year.

From Belgium to Turkey – by rail

The Sofia-based Gopet Trans, with the help of Hupac, has started connecting Antwerp and Halkalı with a stopover in Duisburg. The new intermodal service mainly carries 45’ high cube containers.

Hupac links Austria and Serbia

The Swiss rail company launched on 2 March 2022 a once per week shuttle between Belgrade and Vienna. Hupac’s trains are handled at the WienCont terminal in Austria and in Serbia at the Dry Port Terminal Pancevo.

Photo: Birsterminal

MSC connects the Baltic with US East Coast

Starting from the end-March 2022, the container carrier weekly connects the Baltic seaports of Klaipėda, Gdynia and Gothenburg and the North Sea Bremerhaven with New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk. The transit time to NY from Klaipėda is 15 days, Gdynia – 13, and Gothenburg – 11.

Additional departures on Kombiverkehr’s North-South routes

First, the company has increased the frequency of its Rostock-Verona intermodal service to seven weekly round-trips. Next, the timetable of the ColognePort of Trieste link has gained an extra departure, up to four/week now.

TT-Line’s first Green Ship sets sail for the Baltic

Nils Holgersson, the first in a series of two new ferries for the German Baltic shipping line, left the Chinese Jiangsu Jinling Shipyard heading for Travemünde. The GT 56,138, 230 by 31 m, gas-run ro-pax – offering room for 600 passengers and 4,600 lane metres of cargo capacity – arrived in Germany after about a month. Nils Holgersson’s sister ship’s delivery is expected for autumn 2022. TT-Line’s ferry that bore the name Nils Holgersson will be renamed Akka.

Green Cargo has started connecting the Arken Intermodal Terminal in the Port of Gothenburg with Train Alliance’s facility in Rosersberg near Sweden’s capital. The service runs six times per week, offering 40 cargo transport units of capacity per journey. Paper products destined for the British and French markets make up the bulk of the new service’s volume. There are plans to increase the Gothenburg-Rosersberg timetable to two trains/day.

New Lithuania-Poland container rail link

The Lithuanian Intermodal Container Service is trialling a potentially regular service connecting its Kaunas facility with DCT Gdańsk. The test run arrived at the deepwater container terminal in Poland on 16 February; transit time amounted to two days.

New intermodal service Germany-Turkey

CEVA Logistics has launched a new daily route that links the rail terminals in Halkalı in Turkey and Duisburg in Germany. The service is open for trailers (including mega box) and containers (45’ high POH_205_x_133.5.qxp_(BTJ Package 2021) 13.04.21 17:28 Seite 1cube pallet wide). The transit time of the HalkalıDuisburg connection is six days. The two under construction ferries previously planned to enter the Norvik-Ventspils service will now be put on the Gdynia-Karlskrona one. The yet-to-be-named ro-paxes, each 240 m long and offering room for 1,200 passengers and 3,600 lane metres for transporting freight, will start plying between Poland and Sweden this July and November. In Gdynia, the newbuilds will berth at the brand-new Public Ferry Terminal. The ferries are equipped to draw power from the shore. The recently jumboised Stena Scandica and Stena Baltica will continue serving the Norvik-Ventspils crossing.

Photo: Stena Line

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