RAIL Shale play energy production in North America continues to drive new business for rail tank operators and manufacturers as infrastructure develops, while opportunities for rail movements of liquids in bulk are opening up in other territories too
DEMAND Vietnam’s hazardous cargo transport and storage sector is poised to enter an important growth phase as more international companies providing specialist dangerous goods handling services enter the market attracted by rising consumption of chemical and petroleum products, as David Hayes reports
DB Schenker Rail has secured a three-year contract from Bayer MaterialScience to operate block trains between its plants in Dormagen and Krefeld and its production centre in Brunsbüttel.
DB Schenker Rail has begun offering new container transport services from the Hamburg and Bremerhaven seaports in Germany to Poland. The company has been running container trains from Hamburg and Bremerhaven to Poland since 1991
DB Schenker Logistics announces that it has established a new “road-rail interface” facility in northern Italy. The facility, located next to the already existing facilities of Schenker Italiana in the city of Dinazzano
FREIGHT FORWARDING Imports account for the major share of hazardous goods handled by Schenker Korea Ltd, a joint venture logistics company set up by DB Schenker of Germany with local partners in the early 1970s, as David Hayes reports
Rail freight giant DB Schenker saw its revenues grow by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year, according to the company’s latest financial statement.
Rail logistics giant DB Schenker has merged its business structures in Hungary, a move the company expects to streamline its organisation and simplify its processes in the market.
