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Samskip’s Samskip Van Dieren Multimodal subsidiary is adding a rail shuttle link between its main European hub at Duisburg and Copenhagen from 4 November. Not only will this provide a daily service between Germany and the Danish capital, but it will also link together Samskip’s multimodal and shortsea services in UK/ Ireland and Scandinavia, as well as other parts of Europe. Samskip has a daily barge
service between Duisburg and Rotterdam, from where shortsea services operate to Tilbury, Hull, Grangemouth, Belfast, Dublin, Waterford and Cork. It also offers a comprehensive
intermodal service in Scandinavia. Samskip Van Dieren Multimodal operates a total of 42 rail shuttles per week, making it one of the leading intermodal service providers to and from Sweden. Shuttles run to and from Göteborg, Helsingborg, Nässjö, Almhült and Katrineholm and connections are available to other points, including Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Mo I Rama in Norway, Katrineholm in Sweden and Lulea in northern Finland. There are also shortsea services from Rotterdam to 12 ports in Norway. Samskip Van Dieren
Multimodal’s managing director, Johan Logtenberg said the new services
“will serve existing
intermodal users even better and offer a new opportunity to potential customers.” He adds: “Scandinavia was always an important market to us, but the one thing that was missing was a link to Denmark, which we’re now opening up. If you look at current flows to Copenhagen, they’re all by road.” There were a few existing
intermodal services, but nothing like the daily (Monday to Friday) frequency that Samskip will offer, with journey times of only 19 hours from Duisburg to Copenhagen. The new intermodal link will
offer freedom from the German ‘Maut’ truck tolls, and moreover, the intermodal units used on the service will be able to carry much higher payloads than trucks. Samskip has over 13,000 containers, ranging from 20ſt to 45ſt pallet-wide high cube containers including reefers, curtain-siders and flat-racks. Samskip Van Dieren Multimodal has been offering rail services between Scandinavia and continental Europe since 2003, having introduced the first through operation on the routes in 2008. Its trains are for its own exclusive use, and operate via the Storebælt fixed link that has connected the two parts of Denmark since the late 1990s. Logtenberg expects consumer
goods to dominate flows into Copenhagen. The market out of the Danish capital itself back to Germany is limited, but the links to the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe could then come into their own as he expects a ready trade in agricultural produce from elsewhere in Denmark back to those regions. Samskip can offer a range of temperature-controlled units, including self-sustained
diesel electric reefers through its Samskip Coolboxx activity . There are plans to further
develop services to and from Duisburg, but for the moment Samskip is concentrating
on
Issue 8 2013 - Freight Business Journal
Samskip fills in missing link with new route to Danish capital
upgrading its terminal, which is now nearing capacity. Meanwhile, the Scandinavian
markets are faring better than most of the rest of Europe,Logtenberg believes: “Certainly, it’s not as
volatile as the rest of Europe, and at the same time the interest in intermodal transport in Scandinavia has always
been
strong, and it’s growing still further.” The only difficulty is the
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strong Swedish Krone, which has reduced that
country’s export
potential somewhat – but even so, the Scandinavian region is in a much better situation than the rest of Europe.
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