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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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Automotive
28.10.2024
Flexible car transport: DB Cargo Logistics sets the standard
Flexible logistics solutions are playing an increasingly important role in the rapidly changing automotive industry. DB Cargo Logistics recognised this development early on and reacted accordingly in the interest of its customers: With flexible car carrier wagons, the DB Cargo subsidiary offers state-of-the-art solutions for transporting a wide range of vehicle types, from classic compact cars to large SUVs and heavy electric vehicles.
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Automotive
03.07.2024
Strong transport partnership with JLR set to continue
Nitra, Slovakia. 19 double-deck wagons from DB Cargo are loaded with Defender and Discovery models at the JLR plant. They form one of eight block trains that run every week from here to the major North Sea ports in Belgium. The freight train now has around 1,300 kilometres and three national borders ahead of it. The entire logistics chain is managed by DB Cargo Logistics.
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Automotive
17.05.2024
The DB Cargo network: Strong Rail on the route to Spain
The rail link from central Europe to Spain and Portugal via France is important for many industrial sectors, including the automotive, consumer goods, steel and chemical industries. The route enables customers to transport their products to the Iberian Peninsula by rail despite the different track gauge used there.
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Automotive
03.05.2024
Flexible, fast and climate-friendly: shipping automotive parts with Trailer Romania Xpress
Before a car hits the road for the first time, its different components have already travelled many kilometres – quite a few of them by rail. To help make this supply chain as sustainable as possible, Mercedes-Benz relies on services provided by DB Cargo Logistics, which include transporting transmission parts and finished transmissions.
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Automotive
15.04.2024
A look at our industries: the future of automotive logistics
The automotive industry is undergoing its biggest transformation since the introduction of assembly line production. This industry portrait sheds light on how DB Cargo is adapting to the trends and meeting the challenges, with a focus on battery logistics and electric car distribution.
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Timber
07.03.2024
DB Cargo Logistics modernises timber wagons
Modernising rolling stock is often associated with high investment costs. But there are also innovative and resource-saving ideas for renewing vehicle fleets sustainably. DB Cargo recently put these into practice for its timber fleet.
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Automotive
05.01.2024
Full capacity utilisation, full success: New round-trip concept for Stellantis
It's the holy grail of rail logistics providers everywhere: freight trains running loaded on every journey. The reality is often quite different, as trains usually transport goods to one destination and then travel empty to the next pick-up address. Not so with the transport recently launched by Stellantis and DB Cargo Logistics – a great partnership with a recipe for success.
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Timber
30.10.2023
A look at our industries: Wood belongs on rail
Wood logistics and rail transport share a long history, and DB Cargo Logistics is an experienced partner for both. Proven expertise in all things wood, digital and analogue innovations, and special equipment for handling wood products of any kind make DB Cargo Logistics an important wood logistics provider.
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Timber
18.10.2023
From wasteland to loading yard, all thanks to teamwork
The story began with a forecast for an increase in timber damaged by bark beetles in the forests in the state of Thuringia in central Germany. This came at a time when local timber loading yards were stretched to their limit. It was therefore clear that a new timber loading yard had to be built as quickly as possible. A daunting task.
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Automotive
13.07.2023
High-capacity battery transport by rail
Electric vehicles are among the most important and visible factors in the transition to new drive technologies. But a true measurement of their carbon emissions should include not only the energy used to charge them but also the vehicles' production and transport – a view on which DB Cargo Logistics and Volkswagen Group Logistics agree.
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Automotive
09.02.2023
Carriage with renewable power now also possible in Poland
Volkswagen Group Logistics has been relying on DB Cargo Logistics' rail logistics solutions for a number of years now, providing carbon neutral carriage of finished vehicles, materials and components to and from its plants in Germany. The company is a pioneer in Eco Solutions and is now also the first user of DBeco plus in Poland.
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Timber
15.12.2022
On good advice: binderholz activates Wilhelmsglück private siding
Many companies are asking themselves how they can make production and logistics more sustainable. In the field of transport, the shift to rail is high on the agenda. The timber processing company binderholz took this step many years ago at its plant in Oberrot. Now it has taken the next step toward an even greener supply chain: a private rail siding, which will further reduce the number of trucks in the supply chain.
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Timber
18.08.2022
Trees on the right track
PMG Holzhandels GmbH is a timber trading company established in Villach, Austria, that supplies raw materials to wood processing companies across Europe. In the spring of this year, PMG began supplying beech logs from forests in the Czech Republic to a customer in Belgium. DB Cargo Logistics has provided an environmentally friendly and customer-centric logistics solution that utilises an efficient wagon turnaround cycle and the timber port in Trier.
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Automotive
13.07.2023
Zeebrugge in time
Zeebrugge is the second-largest port in Belgium. It enjoys an ideal location on the North Sea and close to the UK, while at the same time within easy reach of western Europe's economic centres. Zeebrugge is an important container port that can also accommodate deep-draft ships. Above all, it is one of the world's most important transhipment sites for new cars.
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Automotive
13.07.2022
A full load of green mobility
Electric vehicles are seen as a major component of the decarbonisation of energy and transport. However, it is essential that we not only consider the cars themselves but also their carbon footprint, which includes production and supply chains. Audi is one of the pioneers of this trend.
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Automotive
13.05.2022
Climate neutral transport with DB Cargo – now from Rastatt and Sindelfingen
Rail freight transport is already extremely climate-friendly. But it gets even better. Thanks to DBeco plus and DBeco neutral, freight transport can even be entirely CO2-free on rail or climate neutral on sections of routes where emissions are unavoidable. Mercedes-Benz is one customer relying on DB Cargo's carbon-free and climate neutral freight logistics.
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Automotive
10.05.2022
CATL launches green battery logistics
Chinese company CATL is the world's largest manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles. Since January 2022, DB Cargo Logistics has been handling multimodal transport of lithium-ion cell modules in steel frames for CATL.
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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
15.02.2022
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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