- With national gateway connections in Germany and Austria
- Onward connections to Hungary, Greece and Turkey

(Frankfurt/Main, 8 September 2021) Kombiverkehr KG is offering forwarders between Germany and Austria a new intermodal service. Since the start of this week, trains have been running directly between the München-Riem and Wels CTT terminals. Three departures per week and direction are timetabled. The closing time of acceptance for containers, tank containers and swap bodies in Munich is 19.50 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and in the opposite direction from Wels 17.45 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 15.00 on Saturdays. The trains will arrive at the destination terminals during the night, which means that the transport units can be collected early the next morning and delivered to the recipient. Each transport unit with a laden weight of 25 tons uses 280 kilograms less CO2 compared with end-to-end road transport. This equates to a saving of more than 75 per cent. "Anyone relying on the railway for their transport is automatically helping to protect the climate. On Austrian services this particularly sustainable transport option is available not only on the existing routes to and from Duisburg, Neuss and Ludwigshafen, but now to and from southern Germany as well. And with our many gateway connections, the saving over long journeys is a multiple of that," says Alexander Ochs, Managing Director of the intermodal provider.

München-Riem and Wels CTT function not only as regional terminals, but also as hubs for onward transport. Within Germany, for instance, that makes Köln-Eifeltor and Leipzig-Wahren accessible to Austrian shipments as well. In Austria, Wels is the hub for shipments to and from Vienna, Bludenz, Graz, Hall in the Tyrol, Linz, St. Michael, Villach and Wolfurt and to and from Sindos in Greece. There are also international connections to and from Budapest, from where Halkali near Istanbul can also be reached by rail. Kombiverkehr offers all onward services in a one-stop-shop process.

Since 6 September, forwarders and logistics companies have also been able to deliver transport units in München-Riem for destinations in Austria on the Kombiverkehr KG network.

The press photo can be downloaded here.