the port of Wilhelmshaven is time connected for railway way with the inland port of Duisburg



Saturday and yesterday Duisburger Hafen (duisport), the group that manages the port of Duisburg that is the main European internal harbour port of call, has carried out with success tests of a new railway service with train shuttle between inland port and the new port German container in deep waters of Wilhelmshaven (JadeWeserPort) having connected Duisburg Intermodal Terminal (DIT) with the Eurogate Container Wilhelmshaven Terminal, terminal that is operated by the Eurogate group and that it has entered in activity ten months ago ( on 21 September 2012).

The train, along 460 meters, has left from Duisburg saturday morning transporting 14 container teu and has arrived to the terminal of Eurogate in about eight hours; to the return the convoy, that it had 66 teu on board, has arrived to Duisburg Sunday afternoon. The test connection is carried out in order to test the technical procedures to the aim to start the new service soon.

The managing director of Duisburger Hafen, Erich Staake, has confirmed the goodness of the decision to realize the new port of Wilhelmshaven: "I consider - he has explained - than the port in deep waters will develop itself positively. The investment has been an absolutely just decision for Germany is as business that as logistic position, than we intend to support. Over the long term - it has specified - it is not previewed that new the shuttle railway is maintained as activity in test". Staake in fact has declared trusting that it will be possible to program regular departures of the train as soon as possible shuttle: "certainly - it has found - a new railway service contemplates always a risk financial, but we are of the trade and we have the necessary experience of the market thanks to the others our connections success shuttle. Moreover - it has added - we have in course currently promising negotiations with a potential important customer".

Satisfaction for the initiative is expressed by the chairman of Eurogate: "a directed railway connection with the port of Duisburg, own to the center of the region of Rhine that is strongly active in the commerce with foreign country - has emphasized Emanuel Schiffer - it offers exceptional opportunities to us. From Wilhelmshaven the customers can not only distribute their containerized cargos through the greatest port inland of the world, but they can meanwhile generate new traffics. This new railway connection - it has concluded Schiffer - returns Wilhelmshaven for markets interesting which new gateway of Europe".