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Combinant on the blocks
New trans-Caucasus
and are supportive of this scheme,”
said Schulze-Freyberg.
The route through the Cauca-
More information has been made
service for Polzug
sus to Central Asia is an attractive
and competitive alternative to the
available about the new inter- land routes from the North Sea
modal terminal being built in
Polzug Intermodal GmbH has Georgian and Azeri Railways see
ports as well as from the Baltic sea-
Antwerp by BASF, Hupac and
started a block train service across container traffic as a promising fu-
ports via Russia. From Baku on-
Inter Ferry Boats (IFB) under the
the central Caucausus between ture business. “All companies and
ward shipment is by feeder across
Combinant name.
Georgia’s Black Sea Port of Poti institutions involved, including the
the Caspian Sea to Aktau, where
The parties aim to open the
and Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea Port two ports and the Customs au-
railcars are at disposal to provide
1000m long x 100m wide facility,
of Baku. thorities, are proving cooperative
onward transport to Central Asia.
with a capacity for 150,000 con-
The service - Polzug’s first out-
tainers/year (swap bodies and swap
side its core Germany-Poland/
tanks as well as ISO containers and
Ukraine/Belarus market - started
tank containers) in 1Q/2010 and
just one year after planning and
construction was kicked off by
intensive negotiations commenced.
Flemish Prime Minister Kris
“We are delighted with this
Peeters on March 10.
new service to shippers globally.
Combinant has already or-
The Caucasus and Central Asia are
dered three RMGs for the facil-
Hans Künz will supply three high speed RMGs to Combinant
growth markets,” said Polzug’s man-
ity from Hans Künz of Austria
aging director Walter Schulze-
spokesman of Belgian rail-owned
RMGs will span truck and stor- dinate construction and engi- Freyberg. “Interest in our block
operator and IFB has confirmed
age lanes as well as five rail tracks. neering, with Hupac and IFB train through the Caucasus has
that there will be no horizontal
Given the high share of swap contibuting to the terminal de- been absolutely tremendous.”
rolling equipment in the termi-
bodies and swap tanks used by sign. The first block train was organ-
nal. Instead, all handling will be
BASF, the RMGs will be According to IFB, there are no ised by Polzug’s Silk Road Express
performed by these three RMGs,
equipped with combi-attach- plans for a dedicated lane and gate Georgia LLC affiliate in Poti. The
as is the case, for example, at
ments. linking Combinant with the ad- goal is to build up container traffic
Kombi-Terminal Ludwigshafen
The new terminal is being jacent PSA HNN Noordzee tidal between Poti and Baku to a fixed
(KTL) and DUSS in Köln. (KTL
built inside BASF’s vast chemical marine terminal. Interchange be- timetable as quickly as possible.
is BASF’s dedicated terminal at
plant in the northernmost part of tween the two facilities will have The provision of a block train
its main plant).
the Antwerp (right bank) port to be via the public road, using link enjoys support from “the po-
Hence the double-cantilever
area. BASF will lead and co- or- normal road trucks and chassis. litical world,” says Polzug, and the
A delivery of construction materials for the MediaCityUK site in Salford
Quays has made the final leg of its journey using the Manchester Ship
Canal rather than the road network, reducing the environmental impact of
the movement. The first shipment, 75t of paving - the equivalent of three
containerloads - left the Port of Liverpool this month for a six-hour journey
up the Canal on a 76m barge. On arrival at MediaCityUK, a crane was
used to unload the paving directly from the barge onto the site. A further
400 containers will be moved using the Manchester Ship Canal over the
coming year. “These shipments show the flexibility of the barge operation,
which can serve a number of locations along the 36 mile length of the Canal
and meet a wide range of supply chain requirements,” said Frank Robotham,
marketing director for Peel Ports, which operates both the Port of Liverpool
and the Manchester Ship Canal
Russian Railways
boosts Trans-Sib
On 14 March a new experimental ated by Russian Troika reached the
“accelerated” container train left Hyundai automotive assembly
the railway station of Nakhodka- plant in Taganrog on the Sea of
Vostochny in the Russian Far East Azov in eight days and 212.5
for Moscow, as part of Russian hours (8.9 days).
Railways (RZD)’s “Trans-Sib for RZD’s first vice-president
Seven Days” project. Vadim Morozov says that efficient
To enable the train to cover the utilisation of the TSR’s transit po-
9361km long route three days tential is a top priority, as the com-
quicker than by regular service, the pany is aiming to all but triple trans-
train’s operator, RZD’s affiliate Russia rail freight by 2030.
TransContainer, is synchronising It will earmark the TSR for
the train’s layovers for changing lo- container transport and gradually
comotives and drivers as well as transfer bulk materials to the
stops for railcar inspections, and Baikal-Amur Magistral.
operating at speeds to achieve /Last September Far East
1400 km a day. Transport Company (DVTK)
The train was loaded by launched a regular 10 day-long
Vostochny Stevedoring Company container service from Vostochny
with 55 40ft containers filled with to its Tuchkovo terminal near
household electronic goods made Moscow. Under a contract with
in South Korea and. Total time for Samsung, DVTG delivered 3700
the Pusan-Moscow transport is TEU of household appliances by
scheduled to be 12 days. the end of 2008. As previously re-
Last month a 71-platform train ported the Tuchkovo ICD was
operated by Russian Troika, the opened by DVTG and South Ko-
FESCO and RZD joint venture, rea’s Pantos Logistics in the sum-
covered the 9244 km route from mer 2007. It underwent a large-
Vladivostok to Perovo near Mos- scale upgrade last year and is now
cow in 164.5 hours (6.9 days). In capable of handling full container
January 2009, another train oper- train consists of 71 platforms.
Russian Railways (RZD)’s 85% controlled intermodal affiliate Transcontainer
(TC) has just launched a dedicated packing station for stuffing sawn timber
packages into containers at the Bazaikha railway station in Siberia. It now
takes just 10 minutes to fill a 40ft container. TC began regular multimodal
services for Siberian sawn timber last October to Eastern Europe and North
Africa, with RZD’s Krasnoyarsk division as the traction provider. This picture
shows the inaugural train, en route from Lesosibirsk to the port of export,
Rostov-na-Dony on the Sea of Asov, loaded with 120 TEU bound for Egypt
16 March 2009
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