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Maersk Line sells railway society ERS Railways to the British Freightliner
ERS stops the 47% of the capital stock of the German boxXpress
June 20, 2013
the railway society British Freightliner has acquired from the shipowning company Danish Maersk Line railway company Dutch ERS Railways, that it is founded in 1994 and it is specialized in the connections between the main nordeuropei ports, between which Amburgo, Bremerhaven, Lubecca, Rostock and Rotterdam, with theirs hinterland and in the European continental railway services for destined shipments to Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Republic Ceca and Switzerland.
ERS Railways among other things stops the 47% of the capital stock of the boxXpress, German railway society that is participated with the 38% from the Intermodal Eurogate of the terminalista group German Eurogate and with the 15% from German TX Logistik of the railway group Italian Trenitalia. BoxXpress is specialized in the transport of container from the German ports to the home markets.
the acquisition of ERS Railways in the long term includes contracts for the transport of the containers of the Maersk Line, activity that is carried out gives beyond 15 years is from the ERS that gives the same Freightlliner.
"the acquisition of ERS - the managing director of Freightliner has commented, Peter Maybury - joins very well in our strategy of increase and ulteriorly widens our source of returns following our positive income in last the seven years in the markets of the bulk transport in Poland and Germany and Australia in 2009".
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