Rotterdam connections expand across south-east Europe

INTERCONTAINER, Europe's leading railway-trucking operations, will expand services to offer a weekly shuttle between Rotterdam and six terminals in central and south-east Europe, leaving Rotterdam Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The container shipping route will run through the CTH Herne hub in the Ruhr to Sopron and Budapest Bilk, Bradu de Sus and Bucharest, Thessaloniki and the Halkali terminal in Istanbul. North bound boxes will go by sea, arriving at Rotterdam on Mondays and Fridays.

Containers shuttled from Rotterdam on transfer to the CTH Herne terminal were provided by EVU and are to be handled by mobile front spreaders with a coming three 725 metre long loading/transhipment track to move 70-container capacity trains and three mobile transhipment units.

By using its representative agencies in Greece and Turkey, and subsidiaries in Romania and Hungary Intercontainer will support the increased traffic with shipping booked and remotely tracked by the company itself.

This means that we are able to offer high handling standards on the spot in Rotterdam and at target destinations, said Intercontainer product chief Jochen Weber.

Even in the present economic climate we are convinced there is growing potential for this network extension, since shipper demand as regards logistics remains on the upturn and this will result in larger volumes of intermodal transport over longer distances, he said.

Source: Schednet