Focus areas

Group objectives

  • Market-leading positions on specific major European transport corridors
  • Resilient, competitive and predictable intermodal offerings to a growing customer base
  • Ensuring efficient and competitive rail traction capacity with a balanced portfolio of strategic partners
  • Digital transformation and automation in planning and operations along the intermodal chain, including customers, railway undertakings and third party terminals
  • R&D: continuous development of innovations in wagon technology and terminals
  • Increasing the productivity of intermodal and terminal operations

Market development

  • Focus on the intermodal transport segments of transalpine, long haul (over 600 km in Europe) and maritime transport
  • 30-50% market share on the corridors served
  • Focus on pipeline development with 5-10 and more roundtrips per week
  • Capacity utilisation of trains above 80%
  • Priority on the use of own terminals
  • Strengthening the main transport corridors by investing in terminals

Customers

  • Quality, reliability, stability, cost leadership and competitiveness are the key drivers
  • Automate the contract-to-cash process
  • Standardise digital services and set up a self-service platform for customers
  • ‘Estimated pick-up time’ information for 100% of shipments, with 95% reliability
  • Expand customer base; service for major customers
 

Partners

  • Integrate the planning cycle with strategic partners

  • Establish strong partnerships with multiple rail operators
  • Standardise and automate the purchase-to-payment process with partners
  • Strengthen the digitalisation of operational processes (timetables, disruptions, pick-up times, etc.)
 

Employees

  • Develop young talents into leadership positions
  • Increase the diversity of the workforce, particularly in leadership and management positions
  • Reduce staff turnover in the Group
  • HR leadership development program for 2nd/3rd level managers

Contact

New multimodal solution from Germany to Russia and CIS countries via Kaliningrad

Intermodal Express launches a new multimodal connection between Germany and Russia, CIS countries and the Far East. The service is performed in cooperation with ERS Railways and Mann Lines and will start on 22 November 2019.

 

The central element of the service is the solution via the Port of Kaliningrad in Russia connected to Hamburg by short sea shipping of Mann Lines. In Hamburg, the intermodal operator ERS Railways offers a wide range of connections to southern Germany as well as to Italy, directly from the pier.

 

In Kaliningrad, Intermodal Express takes over your shipments and delivers them to a great variety of destinations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and other CIS countries, up to China, Japan, Korea and south-east Asia.

 

All types of ISO containers – DV, high cube, tank containers etc. – are welcome. The service admits dangerous goods cargo, thus offering an innovative transport solution for the Eurasian market.

 

Find out more in the attached flyer!

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