Connecting railway logistics
Competitive advantages with connecting railway logistics
With a connecting railway, your company opens up direct access to the public
rail network and thus ensures an efficient rail freight management. This allows
you to transport your goods with direct door-to-door service – without having to
change carriers: a punctual, reliable and environmentally-friendly solution.
The connecting railway gives you best possible logistics performance for
national and international transports along the close-meshed, Europe-wide
railway network and thus creates an optimal connection to the most important
European ports, terminals, industrial and economic centres.
Competence and know-how from a single source
With Rail Cargo Austria’s “experts team for connecting railways” you have a point of contact for all your questions regarding the construction, expansion, modernisation and maintenance of connecting railways.
Facts
- Presently, there are ca. 1,150 branch lines in Austria.
- Rail Cargo Austria transports every year approximately 66 million tons of goods in ca. 1.65 million freight wagons via branch lines.
- With these volumes, Rail Cargo Austria produced ca. 80,400 t CO2; Transporting the same volume on trucks would have resulted in CO2 emissions of ca. 1.85 million tons. Therefore,
- Rail Cargo Austria with its branch line customers has prevented CO2 emissions of ca. 1.77 million tons compared with possible truck transports (calculation basis: 200 km average transport distance).