New rail shuttle service for duisburg

Cargo on the service, which will run five times a week, consists exclusively of containers shipped from overseas destinations through the ports of Antwerp, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The containers are delivered by barge to the Rhein-Ruhr Terminal in the Port of Duisburg for consolidation and for direct transfer to the shuttle train.

duisburg rail, the railroad utility of Duisburger Hafen AG, provides the traction for RRT Rhein-Ruhr Terminal GmbH, the terminal operator, to Unna and back to Duisburg. Each train has a capacity of 72 teu in each direction.

“We are taking up to 18,000 truck containers per year off the road,” said Duisburger Hafen AG’s chief executive officer Erich Staake. “All of them were previously moved by truck across the Ruhr region.”