VTG helps move goods from road to rail

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The Hamburg-based wagon hire and rail logistics company VTG Aktiengesellschaft has established a new pool of wagons to provide flexible, ad hoc transports of ethanol from Rotterdam.

This provides customers with small or excess quantities as well as those needing transport at short notice with easier access to rail freight transport.

This service has been developed jointly by VTG’s Wagon Hire Division and its Rail Logistics subsidiary Transpetrol.

In Rotterdam, Wagon Hire supplies the tank wagons for transporting ethanol, while Transpetrol organises the entire dispatch and transport operation. The customer can therefore purchase a comprehensive transport solution that can be provided at short notice.

The quantity and scheduled time can be selected and tailored to fit transport requirements. There is no minimum hire period and there are no additional costs for maintenance or breakdown.

“The ethanol wagon pooling system is primarily aimed at customers who need flexible, all-round solutions that can be provided at short notice for transporting their product. At Transpetrol we are in a position to provide combined wagon-and-freight solutions at short notice”, explains Gert Sieksmeyer, Managing Director of Transpetrol GmbH.

“This means we are reducing the threshold for access in favor of rail freight traffic and making Europe-wide transports from Rotterdam possible that would previously have taken place on the road. For our customers, this is a good way to gain access to rail freight transport, which has lower emissions and is more sustainable” adds Sven Wellbrock, member of the Managing Board of Wagon Hire Europe.

Transpetrol GmbH has already had many successes in relocating transports from the road to the railway with comparable pooling solutions.

For some years now, products such as propane, butane and propylene have been transported throughout Europe using the pooling system.

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