Intermodal connection between Cologne and Istanbul will be expanded

Troisdorf, 15 November 2022 – TX Logistik AG, which is part of Mercitalia Logistics (FS Italiane Group), intends to further expand its intermodal rail freight transport services between Istanbul and Cologne. For this purpose, the company is showing its European network at Logitrans Istanbul, Eurasia’s largest transport and logistics trade fair, and presenting the current NiKRASA 3.0 handling system of TX Logistik, which makes it easy to load non-craneable trailers onto the train.

For TX Logistik, Turkey is a market with good growth prospects for intermodal transports. Therefore, the rail logistics company has launched a first connection in June between Istanbul and Cologne. In cooperation with a traction partner that operates the route between the Halkali Terminal in Istanbul and Curtici in Romania three times a week, several units are currently being loaded each week. In Curtici, these units are then taken over and transferred to the company’s own intermodal connection Cologne – Curtici, which TX Logistik currently operates with seven round trips per week.

In 2023, the number of shipments in Turkey is to be further increased. One advantage is the transit time between Cologne and Istanbul, which averages nine days and ideally only seven. According to TX Logistik, there is a growing demand in the Turkish economic area for intermodal transports to Europe, especially among smaller and medium-sized forwarding companies. At Logitrans, which will take place from 16 to 18 November, discussions with this target group are to be deepened and possible plans for 2023 concretised – also by using the NiKRASA transshipment system

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About TX Logistik AG

TX Logistik was founded in 1999 as a private rail transport company and maintains an efficient European network with connections in eleven countries. The company has subsidiaries in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden as well as local office in Italy. In its Intermodal and Rail Freight divisions, TX Logistik develops comprehensive rail solutions for continental and maritime traffic as well as tailor-made concepts for conventional freight. With around 650 employees and 8.6 billion tonne kilometres, the company generated annual sales of 253 million euros in 2021. Since January 2017, TX Logistik has been wholly owned by Mercitalia Logistics S.p.A., a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane.

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