Port of Vienna is duisport’s hub to Southeastern Europe

Also for the world’s biggest inland port and provider of Central Europe’s leading logistics hub, there are regions for rail logistics, where it is preferable to serve customers through cooperations with experienced partners. These include countries in Southeastern Europe, which would currently be difficult to be covered with regular block trains that have a good capacity utilisation from Duisburg.
However, within the existing cooperation with the WienCont terminal at the port of Vienna – Albern, it can be provided well in a high quality. Therefore the block train offer with currently ten departures per week available on the Duisburg-Vienna route will be expanded, said Markus Bangen, Member of the Board of Duisburger Hafen AG, during a presentation in the Port of Vienna.
Moreover, the Duisport manager announced that also rail transport to China will be strengthened, as business there was flourishing at the moment. But, “nevertheless, also in the future these services will remain a niche product for sea freight, admittedly a very profitable one,” he added.
In the past 20 years the Port of Duisburg has transformed from a transhipment hub for mining goods for the steel industry in the Ruhr area, into a provider of a complete logistics chain. Today only 25 per cent of annual turnover is generated by cargo handling. All the more the importance of intermodal services, logistics properties and packaging logistics is growing.
In 2014, a total of 132 million tonnes of goods, including 3.4 million TEU in the container segment, passed Duisburg port.
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