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Port of Rotterdam: Rail shuttles to Kehl/Strasbourg increased to seven

Source: Port of Rotterdam The latter train, an initiative from the C3C partnership between Danser Group, Haeger & Schmidt Logistics, and Ultra-Brag, started in 2015 and was used on three weekly services to Kehl in Germany. ‘Additional terminal capacity became available at Strasbourg-Nord, which explains this extension,’ says Michel Bot, Sales & Marketing Manager at Danser Group. ‘As a result, we add 90 TEU import and 90 TEU export to our volume every week. Whether it’s Kehl or Strasbourg makes no difference to our clients in this industrial border area.’ Further extension Kehl and Strasbourg make up one agglomeration, with Strasbourg situated on the French bank and Kehl on the German bank of the Rhine. ‘We serve the Alsace region in France and Baden-Württemberg in Germany, but we also provide additional transport to Switzerland by inland shipping,’ says Maik Bastian, General Manager of the Intermodal Division at Haeger & Schmidt Logistics. ‘If it was not for capacity restrictions in Rotterdam and the last-mile handling in France and Germany, we would certainly have increased the number of rail shuttles further.’ Mattijs Nollen, Managing Director at MMR Intermodal Services, has a similar view. ‘The volumes are increasing rapidly. Together we went from zero to seven

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