• Total of eleven round trips a week between Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen and Skandinavienkai in Lübeck from 7 November
• Connections to Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Baltic States possible in continuous rail-ferry transport

(Frankfurt/Main, 7 November 2017) Frankfurt-based Kombiverkehr KG, Europe’s market leader in intermodal rail freight transport, is strengthening its commitment to Baltic Sea transport to and from the Port of Lübeck with a significant rise in the number of dispatch days on routes to and from Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen. From tomorrow the frequency of services, already increased on 16 October 2017 from six to nine train departures per week in each direction, is being upped yet again to total eleven train departures per week in each direction. Kombiverkehr KG has been operating the service between Duisburg and Lübeck since as far back as 1998. It was transferred to the domestic network Kombi-Netz 2000+ at the start of 2000, since when it has operated as a key direct train linking the Baltic Sea port of Lübeck with the Ruhrgebiet industrial region. “This service is a prime example of a thoroughly viable product of an intermodal connection on what is a major national transport corridor with an international focus towards Scandinavia”, emphasised Peter Dannewitz, Head of Sales at Kombiverkehr.

With the increase in capacity, the operator now offers two departures in the north-south direction every weekday, with trains still leaving Duisburg on Saturdays as well. In the other direction, in future there will be two departures each weekday from Monday to Thursday and one on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. All transported containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers will reach the Baltic Rail Gate Terminal early the following day, allowing them to catch morning ferries serving Malmö and Trelleborg in southern Sweden.

Onward connections available by ferry from Lübeck-Skandinavienkai also include Helsinki, Kotka and Turku in Finland and Ventspils in Latvia. Kombiverkehr will organise transfers to the Nordlandkai, Seelandkai, Dänischburg and Lehmannkai parts of the Port of Lübeck on the customer’s instruction. Green Cargo and Cargo Net AB offer extensive train connections in their networks within Sweden and Norway respectively.

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With a total of eleven train departures now running per week in each direction between Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen and Lübeck‘s Baltic Rail Gate Terminal, Frankfurt-based Kombiverkehr KG offers the best conditions on Skandinavienkai for efficient, continuous transport by rail and ferry to and from Scandinavia and the Baltic States.


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About Kombiverkehr:

Founded in 1969, as Europe’s number 1 operator in intermodal transport Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co KG develops, organises and markets an international rail network that offers forwarders and transport companies an intelligent combination of the advantages of road, rail and ship. Kombiverkehr provides over 170 train departures with more than 15,000 connections for the cost-effective, secure and environmentally friendly transport of freight across Europe every night. The limited partnership is owned by some 230 national and international forwarders and transport companies as well as Deutsche Bahn AG. Headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, the company shifted a total of 985,424 million truck consignments (1.97 million TEU) from road to rail in 2016, saving the environment over one million tonnes of harmful carbon dioxide emissions. In 2016 the 141 full-time equivalent staff achieved sales of 450.2 million euros.