VTG defines rail focus

VTG is to expand and refine its Rail Logistics Division service portfolio, with the aim of benefiting from current positive market trends in certain sectors. The company says it will focus on three highly profitable sectors, each of which offers “great market potential”. These are:

-    liquids (mineral oils and chemicals);
-    agricultural products; and
-    industrial goods (including steel products).

“With this broadened scope of the division, we will access new customer groups and regions and take even more traffic from the road onto the railway,” says Gert Sieksmeyer, head of VTG Rail Logistics Europe.

The new structure will lean heavily on VTG’s subsidiary Transpetrol, which has an established presence in central and eastern Europe and will continue to handle liquids transport in those countries. VTG’s Rail Logistics division will be responsible for liquids transport in western and southern Europe and, building on Transpetrol’s existing network, will also be responsible for moving agricultural and industrial goods across Europe. This will mean an expansion in the Rail Logistics division’s network of offices, beginning with a new sales office in the Frankfurt-am-Main area, which opened on January 1 this year. VTG is planning to open additional branches outside Germany.

Hamburg-based VTG AG describes itself as “one of Europe’s leading railcar leasing and rail logistics company”, operating the largest private railcar fleet in Europe. It has 51,200 railcars in service around the world, with a focus on tank cars and state-of-the-art high-capacity freight wagons. In addition to its rail activities, the group also offers global tank container transport and comprehensive multimodal logistics services.

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