In the 2017 intermodal operator German Kombiverkehr it has recorded an light decrease of the traffic



Last year the intermodal operator German Kombiverkehr has enlivened 958 thousand shipments for railway way, traffic that counted in terms of container teu transported has been pairs to 1,91 million unit, with decreases respective of the -2,8% and of the -3,0% on 2016. The contraction of the activity is determined by the decrease of the -4,1% of international shipments, that they have been pairs to 751 thousand trucks transferred from the road to the track, while the national shipments are increased of +2.3% attesting itself to 208 thousand.

Kombiverkehr has specified that the international traffic between Germany and the German ports of the Baltic Sea of Kiel, Lubecca and Rostock, with forwards it of cargos via ferry from and for Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Countries, it has grown of +3.3% to 79 thousand shipments, while the remaining quota international traffic is diminished of the -4,9% to 672 thousand shipments. They have had an impact particularly negative on the result is the traffic from and for Switzerland it is the Germany-Italy shipments through Switzerland that is determined by the interruption of the German railway line of the valley Rhenish near Rastatt in the period from half August to beginning October. At the same time the Germany-Italy traffic via Brenner has been intensified, however some incidents, the adoption of measures for it I use of the infrastructure and the increasing and been extended controls on the trains to Raubling and Rosenheim because of the flow of refugees, in particular in the second half of 2017, has caused to difficulty in programming regular intermodal services.

"External factors - the managing director of the Kombiverkehr has explained, Robert Breuhahn - have remarkablly influenced an ulterior improvement of the railway offer in particular relatively to the traffic with Italy, that it is the more important market for our company generating the consisting volumes of traffic more. The new tidy trains and the increase of the programmed ability to the year - it has emphasized Breuhahn - clearly have at the beginning not been able to offer because of general the operating situation, than in last it has lead more and more critical problems of resources for the railway companies and the terminals. Even if with these limitations we have obtained an increment of +1.5% of the traffic through Brenner - it has specified - however our increase on guiding the international ones has turned out contained also in the presence of a strong question of ambientalmente sustainable intermodal offer by the shippers".

Kombiverkehr previews an improvement of the market in 2018.