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We deliver what we promise – this is shown by the many examples of successfully implemented logistics concepts that we have reported on in our "Logistics News" and in our newsletter. Have a read for yourself.
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Timber
28.02.2022
Ulm: Maresch and DB Cargo bring even more timber onto the railways
More than 80 percent of the emissions generated during timber transport can be saved by transporting it by rail. The Austrian timber industry Maresch GmbH has been driving this green logistics forward together with DB Cargo since 2016 - and is setting itself even more ambitious ambitions for 2022.
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Automotive
24.02.2022
Best Practice in Neubrandenburg
Webasto wants to make its service and supply chains efficient and climate-friendly. After test runs, one of the 100 largest suppliers to the automotive industry worldwide is now going into regular operation on the rails and plans to expand further.
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Automotive
24.03.2022
All clear for battery logistics
The "climate footprint" of an e-car also includes the supply chain and the production of these vehicles. The newly established Automotive Logistics Center in Bremen supports Mercedes-Benz in a major task: bringing the heart of the e-cars - the drive batteries – to the manufacturer in an environmentally friendly way.
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Automotive
22.12.2021
Plant shunting services: a single source for the first mile
Up to 250 wagons loaded with vehicles and sheet scrap leave BMW’s Dingolfing and Regensburg plants each day. It’s made possible by the team at DB Cargo, which the Bavarian carmaker has entrusted with plant shunting services at both locations for many years.
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Pulp & Paper
14.12.2021
Back on track
Palm Group is getting ready for the future: not only has the family-owned company invested more than half a billion euros in its Neukochen plant and headquarters just outside Aalen in Baden-Württemberg, but it has also completely overhauled its paper mill.
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Automotive
19.11.2021
Enhanced sustainability, greater efficiency
Efficient, innovative, sustainable and unobtrusive. These are the guiding principles for DB Cargo Logistics as we plan our new Rail Logistics Centre (RLC) at Arnstadt's former freight station. Weeds currently fill the site, but they are to give way to trains: up to four connections will load and unload at Arnstadt every day by the beginning of 2024.
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Pulp & Paper
04.11.2021
Rail and shipping come together in Rostock
Rostock is one of the 110 ports in DB Cargo’s network. The Baltic port’s facilities can handle freight of every kind, allowing the city to connect the rail, road and shipping routes that transport wind turbines to Russia, containers from China, paper from Finland and so much more.
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Automotive
23.07.2021
Volkswagen and Audi choose DBeco plus for transports
Rail transport has traditionally been used to deliver a significant share of new cars. Reducing emissions is a good thing – eliminating them entirely is even better.
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Automotive
21.07.2021
“Sustainability has to come from the heart.”
Albrecht Reimold, Member of the Management Board for Production and Logistics, explains why Porsche wants to achieve carbon neutrality on its balance sheet by 2030.
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Automotive
25.06.2021
Why motorbikes take the train from China to Europe
We have the flexibility to step in when the BMW Group needs to transport containers by rail at short notice.
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Consumer Goods
30.04.2021
Kühne’s gherkins take the train with EVplus
Our door-to-door EVplus product has got off to a flying start enabling us to transport consumer goods as flexibly as by lorry - but more sustainably.
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Automotive
27.04.2021
Battery logistics: Why batteries belong on trains
From cells to modules and entire battery systems, DB Cargo Logistics uses its high-performing Automotive RailNet to transport these cornerstones of green mobility safely and sustainably.
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Automotive
25.03.2021
Full load, full charge
When DB Cargo Logistics transports batteries and cell modules with made-to-measure rail services, it takes care of everything from planning to execution. In summer 2020, the company's logistics experts started using trains to move batteries, each weighing hundreds of kilos, from Braunschweig to Zwickau, where they are needed at the ID.3 and ID.4 production bases.
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Consumer Goods
18.03.2021
Creating an EVplus network
In summer 2020, we began offering our customers door-to-door EVplus service from Hamburg to Cologne. Now we're stepping things up with new customers and new routes. Seven new lanes are launching in 2021, several of which have already gone into operation: Hamburg-Mannheim, Hamburg-Berlin, Hamburg-Stuttgart and Bremen-Stuttgart.
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Automotive
15.12.2020
International and flexible
Every week, more than a dozen block trains leave the Ford plant in Craiova, Romania, for destinations up to two thousand kilometres away. Located in the Wallachia region of southwestern Romania, Craiova has a rich history and is an important city for European automobile production.
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Automotive
15.12.2020
A new era
Deutsche Bahn and the Volkswagen Group’s partnership goes back a long way, and their future together looks bright. DB has become one of the most important service providers for the carmaker over the decades.
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Automotive
03.12.2020
Corridors with ultra-frequent services
Flexible, sustainable, reliable and fast – additional connections and stops make DB Cargo Logistics' shuttle products, Trailer Romania Xpress (TRX) and Trailer Med Xpress (TMX), even more attractive for customers from every industry.
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Consumer Goods
01.10.2020
With EVplus, DB Cargo launches door-to-door service
Door-to-door deliveries between Hamburg and Cologne are now available with our brand-new single wagonload product. This service will give customers without private sidings access to the rail network.
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Automotive
20.11.2020
Focus on supply chains
Reliable trains for cars manufactured by the BMW Group in China: The Bavarian car manufacturer has commissioned DB Cargo Logistics to continue transporting components from Germany to China. Since 2011, DB Cargo Logistics has been transporting parts to Shenyang for BMW.
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Automotive
05.11.2020
500.000 Hauling containers to Russia for VW
This past summer, DB Cargo Logistics transported the 500,000 th container for Volkswagen, Škoda and Audi between Europe and Russia. Most of the transports currently start at Wolfsburg station in Germany and Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic. From there, they head to the Russian Volkswagen plants in Kaluga and Nizhny Novgorod.
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Automotive
16.08.2020
High capacity, stable service
DB Cargo Logistics transports cars from the Northern Range ports of Zeebrugge and Rotterdam to Switzerland for the Emil Frey Group. It offers stable departure times and plenty of wagon capacity – benefits that won over the Swiss customer.
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Timber
15.07.2020
Deliver me timbers: EGGER and DB Cargo Logistics
The logistics expert gives EGGER, a provider of wood materials, the highest level of service. DB Cargo Logistics puts its entire network to efficient use for these European transports.
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Automotive
26.08.2020
Supplier traffic moves to rail
Until now, suppliers of bigname car manufacturers have struggled to create multimodal supply chains. Having recently won the contract to transport purchased parts for Audi, DB Cargo Logistics has successfully seized the opportunities to be had from combining different modes of transport.
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Timber
31.03.2020
Partners for all things wood
Rapid, reliable rail transports unlock international markets. For the past four years, DB Cargo Logistics has used asophisticated round-trip model to provide competitive transports between the sawmill company Holzindustrie Maresch GmbH and ist clients in Germany and northern Europe.
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Automotive
31.03.2020
Super sustainable
Porsche is expanding its sustainable transportnetwork for its finished vehicles. The carmaker has opted to use DB Cargo blocktrains to move cars from Kornwestheim to the port at Bremerhaven. DB Cargo has long handled the railtransport of new vehicles from two Porsche plants: Leipzig to Emden/Bremerhaven, and Kornwestheim to Emden.
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Automotive
31.03.2020
Faster travel to Asia
Conference call at DB Cargo Logistics Frieder Lange and Yingnan Yao, account managers for finished vehicles, are talking to their counterparts in China. Colleagues in Polandand and Russia are also in on the call. The discussions are conducted in English, but sometimes Lange and his colleagues switch to German, a language many DB Group employees are familiar with. When matters become complex, Russian and Polish interpreters step in.
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Timber
27.02.2020
All systems go in Burgbernheim for wood consignments to Scandinavia
This week saw DB Cargo Logistics and its customer binderholz dispatch their first load of cross-laminated timber on its journey from Burgbernheim in northwest Bavaria to Sweden. Previously, binderholz sent its products by road, but it has now switched to green rail services: with the support of DB Cargo Logistics, the company spent a number of months working to reopen a disused private siding located on its production premises.
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Automotive
19.12.2019
Multimodal, safe and efficient
The Kuppenheim plant near Rastatt in southwest Germany has one of the world’s most modern car body presses. At the plant, premium automaker Mercedes-Benz manufactures pressed parts out of various types of steel and aluminium, which are then used for various purposes, including the production of compact vehicles. The logistics processes for these parts need to meet highly stringent quality requirements governing their storage, transshipment and transport.
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Automotive
19.12.2019
Audi shows the way
Audi is the pioneer of climate-friendly logistics in Germany. Back in 2010, the carmaker collaborated with the Volkswagen Group’s logistics organisation to become Germany’s first company to switch to rail transport with green electricity — initially to transport finished vehicles, then also to transport materials starting in 2017.
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Automotive
19.12.2019
Flexible operation for Opel
Travelling across Germany by rail – electric, environmentally friendly and just in time. This is the solution that car manufacturer Opel chose for portions of its supplier transport. The new route is used to transport vehicle components for Opel, a subsidiary of the French Groupe PSA, and its new Grandland X SUV, which is available as a plug-in hybrid.
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Automotive
19.12.2019
For the enjoyment of rail freight transport
Before new export vehicle owners get to enjoy driving on the streets, the cars themselves often have to go on a journey first: the path overseas leads first to the freight train and then on board a ship.
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Timber
12.09.2019
Sustainable with every fibre
Hardly anything is as fleeting as fashion. Changing trends, relentless price pressure and complex supply chains force distributors and brands to constantly check and renew their product lines. The latest trend to hit the fashion industry is sustainability.
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Automotive
12.09.2019
Just-in-sequence plant deliveries
Social shifts towards greater individualism represent a considerable challenge for the automotive industry. Flexibility is essential if the sector wants to meet customers’ demands. Similarly, a service provider such as DB Cargo Logistics has to keep evolving so it can keep up. With its new models and highly flexible, integrated solutions, the rail freight operator is laying the foundation for a successful future.
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Consumer Goods
12.09.2019
Complete package
Every day, 2.5 billion people around the globe use Unilever’s products. The Dutch-British corporation markets over 400 different brands, making it one of the most important brand manufacturers in the world. At least one Unilever product can be found in 70% of German homes, thanks to smooth-running supply chains. To make sure everything arrives just in time, logistics experts such as DB Cargo start their work long before an actual delivery is scheduled to take place.
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Pulp & Paper
12.09.2019
Efficient use of all resources
Packaging for every product, packaging becomes the product: this is the maxim behind DB Cargo’s work for Metsä Board. Starting at the port of Lübeck, the rail freight operator transports is customers’ goods across Europe and as far as Turkey.
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Automotive
28.05.2019
From Bavaria to China
DB Cargo Logistics has been transporting vehicle parts to Shenyang for years. Now, the agreement to supply the Chinese plant has been extended until 2022. DB Cargo's component transports supply two automotive plants in Shenyang in the Chinese province of Liaoning. These primarily produce sport utility vehicles (SUVs), which the Chinese market can't get enough of.
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Timber
28.05.2019
Going with the grain
Wood is one of the most sustainable raw materials available, so it makes sense to use the most environmentally friendly form of transport to move it. The timber ports created by DB Cargo Logistics are just one of the ways the company makes this possible. The latest such facility recently entered service.o
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Automotive
27.05.2019
Ready for the all-electric future
Audi has started series production of its e-tron in Brussels. DB Cargo’s carbon-free transports for components and vehicles guarantee sustainability. The e-tron is Audi’s first step towards the future of e-mobility. In September 2018, the carmaker launched series production of its first fully electric car.
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Automotive
27.05.2019
A transport chain for delivering energy
DB Cargo Logistics offers the automotive sector tailored, door-to-door concepts that connect battery factories with car plants. Carmakers are bringing out a growing number of battery-powered vehicles. The power source of these e-vehicles is a battery that weighs several hundred kilos. Having a reliable supply of these components is vital for the auto companies.
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Automotive
27.05.2019
The new 561: the strong type
Europeans like to be prepared for anything that comes their way. They are increasingly buying large size sport utility vehicles (SUVs). This trend also has consequences for logistics providers in the automotive industry, who need to adapt their means of transport to the new vehicles. DB Cargo has now developed a wagon that can transport heavy cars.
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Timber
04.03.2019
Exclusive fleet
Traditionally, DB Cargo Logistics has used two types of wagons to transport timber: open box wagons and stanchion wagons. With the customer PMG Holzhandels GmbH on the scene, there is now another option for supplying paper and pulp customers: the TiRex20 rack system.
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Timber
20.12.2018
Guaranteed Sustainability
The future of wood as a building material is looking bright. That particularly applies when the wood is transported by environmentally friendly rail, as evidenced by the collaboration between DB Cargo Logistics and binderholz. he aspiration of this Austrian company is clear and cuts right to the chase: bringing people, nature and technology into harmony with one another. They have been striving to do exactly this for more than 60 years.
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