The 250-meter indoor track enables multimodal solutions for weathersensitive freight
(Berlin/Essen/Dinazzano, 20 September 2011) DB Schenker has opened a new logistics center in the Northern Italian town of Dinazzano, which improves the links between road and rail. The center, located next to the already existing facilities of the Schenker Italiana S.p.A. branch of Dinazzano specialized in rail logistics and forwarding, is thus able to offer complete multimodal solutions. The single-track hall of the new terminal is 250 meters long and 26 meters wide and has an indoor height of ten meters. Inside the hall, valuable sensitive freight can be transshipped between rail cars and trucks in any weather. The terminal makes comprehensive additional logistics services possible. The site includes an approximately 30,000 square meter asphalted outdoor area. The siding is 600 meters long.
The facility offers efficient transshipment equipment, including bale clamp forklifts with rotating clamps, cranes that can carry up to 35 tons and a truck scale for checking vehicle units up to 18 meters long. The quartz cement floor inside the terminal can support up to 100 tons. The team of specialists of the Schenker Italiana S.p.A. branch of Dinazzano for rail forwarding and logistics is also based in the new logistics center. Along with the existing DB Schenker Railport in Castelguelfo, the new terminal gives DB Schenker especially efficient capacity in the Emilia-Romagna region.
“Our new multimodal logistics center serves as an interface between the different modes of transport and enables a high quality of service in a wide range of logistics services,” said Karl Nutzinger, Member of the Management Board of Schenker AG responsible for Land Transport. “At the same time, the new terminal has allowed us to continue to expand our leading position in linking road and rail.”
The center is located near Bologna and Modena in one of Italy’s most important economic regions. In addition to the automotive industry, the region is also home to over 200 companies that manufacture tiles and terracotta products for export. DB Schenker supplies the Italian tile industry with around one million tons of clay from Germany’s Westerwald region by rail via the Dinazzano terminal. From there, Schenker Italiana S.p.A. in cooperation with DB Schenker Rail ships tiles and ceramics to Northern Europe.
Issued by: Deutsche Bahn AG
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