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Kombiverkehr depends on an ulterior increase of the volumes transported on the Germany-Italy axis
Last year they have been pairs to 389.806 shipments (+3.6%)
June 24, 2014
The German operator of intermodal transport Kombiverkehr previews an ulterior increase of the volumes transported between Germany and Italy, market that currently he represents already more of the half of the operated international volumes from the company. In the 2013 railway operator of Frankfurt he has totaled a total volume of traffic pairs to 937.671 street shipments (or 1,88 million container teu) transported in all Europe ( on 3 February 2014). Last year - Kombiverkher in occasion of the assembly of the associates has announced today in which the results are introduced anniversaries - the single volumes transported on the Germany-Italy axis have been pairs to 389.806 shipments (or 779,600 teu), with an increment of +3.6% on 2012. This increase - it has emphasized the society is still more important since all the services on the main line that crosses Brenner are suspended for some days in June because of floodings; moreover - it has found Kombiverkehr - the service via Trieste for Greece and Turkey, that it includes a marine draft of short-sea in the Mediterranean, has consolidated in the market which valid alternative to the transport via earth through the Balkans. "Here - the managing director of Kombiverkehr has explained, Robert Breuhahn - we see still remarkable a growth potential. In February 2014 - it has remembered - we have already answered to the question of the market with the introduction of another service between Monaco and Trieste".
With respect to the total course of the operating activity, Kombiverkehr has announced that total resumption (+1.1%) recorded in 2013 is continued in the first months of 2014: "we expect - it has specified Breuhahn - than totally the volumes of national transport turn out stable in the course of the year. Instead the question of services of international rail shipment it continues to being so important that we attend another light increase of the total number of shipments realized in 2014 although there is a remarkable pressure by the competition".
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