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17. November 2020The specialist in intermodal freight transport, TX Logistik AG, expands its services with new routes from Kaldenkirchen (Lower Rhine) to Malmö and Eskilstuna in Sweden in both directions. The transport primarily involves trailers. The service started with three round trips per week. The route crosses the Öresund Bridge.
(Troisdorf) TX Logistik AG is expanding its rail freight services to and from Scandinavia. Since October, the company, which specializes in Europe-wide transport services and is part of the Mercitalia Group, has been operating three times a week from Kaldenkirchen in the Viersen district to Malmö and Eskilstuna and back. The route primarily transports trailers loaded with goods of all kinds.
“The new connection not only strengthens TX Logistik’s European activities across the Öresund Bridge but also demonstrates how rail freight transport remains a solution for safe and environmentally friendly logistics even during the Corona period,” says Gian Paolo Gotelli, CEO of TX Logistik.
Terminal Kaldenkirchen Directly at the Border with the Netherlands
The route runs from the rail terminal in Kaldenkirchen via Padborg and Copenhagen to the combined terminal in Malmö and the combined terminal in Eskilstuna. Kaldenkirchen is located in the triangle between Venlo, Düsseldorf, and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. The rail terminal is just a few hundred meters from the German-Dutch border. “With this route, we connect the economically significant Benelux region with Scandinavia,” emphasizes Bernd Weisweiler, Director of Business Development at TX Logistik. “The new corridor between Western and Northern Europe perfectly complements our network.”
TX Logistik takes care of the entire traction. The locomotive driver change takes place at the German-Danish border in Padborg. There, the Swedish subsidiary TX Logistik AB takes over or hands over the service. “This allows us to produce all services along the entire route independently – with our own drivers and our own equipment,” emphasizes Albert Bastius, COO of TX Logistik. Specially equipped multi-system locomotives are used along the entire route across the Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden. TX Logistik is one of the few companies that has these special locomotives in its fleet. The new connection operates as an open train system, with the main customer being the Dutch Westerman Group.
38 Semi-Trailers per Train
Up to 38 semi-trailers can fit on the train – a shift that leads to significant savings in CO2 emissions. About half of the trailers transported on this route from Germany to Sweden are destined for the Malmö region. The other half is further transported by TX Logistik to Eskilstuna, about 100 kilometers west of Stockholm. This new connection complements the internal Swedish network of the railway logistics company between Trelleborg, Malmö, and Eskilstuna.
The new route started with three round trips per week, with concrete opportunities for future development.
Photo: © TX Logistik
