You've probably already heard: Kombiverkehr is reorganising its traction services. Sounds simple, but it's a complex task that will challenge us for more than a year. We would like to explain why we are doing this and why it is a significant step for us. And don't worry: we have planned everything so that you will feel as little as possible of the traction changeover and continue to benefit from our flexible and safe intermodal transport services. But we still want to be transparent and take you with us on our journey.
In this ‘Homestory’ series, we will give you regular insights into this exciting process. Here you can find out all about the progress of the changeover, the challenges we are facing and the solutions we are finding. It's as if we're giving you a glimpse behind the scenes of our company - similar to a home story, where you can take a look inside a private home. You will get to know the people who make these changes possible and understand why we are convinced that this step will make us stronger together.
Your Kombiverkehr team
Who are these partners? The rail freight companies Lokomotion and KombiRail Europe as well as the Dienstleistungsgesellschaft für Intermodale Verkehre (DIV) play a major role. All three players will massively increase their capacities in order to cope with the additional connections and the associated tasks.
Lokomotion specialises in transalpine freight transport. The company, in which we hold a 25 per cent stake, has stood for safety and reliability on one of our most important axes in Italian transport for many years.
Our wholly-owned subsidiary KombiRail Europe is already operating between the western ports and the Ruhr region and will be travelling throughout Germany for us in the future.
The focus of DIV, which is also a 100 per cent shareholding, has so far been on repairs and certifications in the wagon sector. Now we have the additional task of building up and managing our own wagon fleet, as we will no longer be purchasing wagons together with the traction division.
We are tackling our reorganisation in several stages. Over the coming months, we will gradually entrust our transport operations to new traction providers. In addition to the railways already introduced, these include ČD Cargo, e.g.o.o. Eisenbahngesellschaft Ostfriesland-Oldenburg, LTE Logistik- und Transport and SBB Cargo International. And we will of course remain associated with DB Cargo as our complementary partner from the very beginning.
