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A magazine published by Duisburger Hafen AG June 2009 

Good Atmosphere: 

12th transport logistic 

Exhibition in Munich 

Successful Start-up: 

Gateway West-Terminal 

on logport II Site 

Attractive new Neighbor: 

InterBulk Group sets up 

Terminal in duisport 

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12 10th Logistics Forum Duisburg 

Sustainability through 

efficiency 

15 logport I 

Kühne + Nagel doubles 

capacity in logport 

20 New transport logistics concept 

for Lanxess/Aliseca 

With a two column model to 

success 

22 “Good Luck Express” 

New railroad shuttle 

promotes cooperation in the 

Ruhr region 

27 Financial year 2008 

duisport Group looks back 

on successful year 

30 duisport consult 

New company offers port 

and logistics concepts 

32 BLG AutoTerminal 

Booming business in times 

of crisis 

34 Service 

duisport – The Port 

35 Port Map 

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Gateway West Terminal 

successfully started 

At the beginning of January 2009, Duisburger Hafen AG 

was able to start operations at the so-called Gateway 

West-Terminal on the logport II site in the south of 

Duisburg together with the Imperial subsidiary RRT. 

24 RMS shipping company 

No. 1 in Europe in river-sea 

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short-sea traffic to and from Great Britain. 

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CONTENTS 

4 transport logistic exhibition 2009 

Records and a good atmosphere 

despite the economic crisis 

The 12th international specialist exhibition for logistics, 

telematics and transport once again broke records 

despite the economic crisis with more than 1,760 exhibitors 

from 55 countries and 48,000 visitors from 

around the world, exceeding all expectations. 

Authors of this edition: 

Bernd Reuther (br), Hans-Wilhelm 

Dünner (Dü), Axel Götze-Rohen (ag), 

Marina von Kaler (vK), Hermann 

Kewitz (hk), Rolf Müller-Wondorf (MW), 

Lars Rose (lr), Lothar Steckel (LS) 

Layout: media:grafixx, 

Mülheim an der Ruhr 

Print: WAZ-Druck GmbH & Co. KG, 

Duisburg 

Translations: Kern AG, Bonn 

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10 InterBulk Group 

International bulk cargo logistics 

operator creates jobs in Duisburg 

Occupants of sites in the Duisburg Nordhafen are getting 

a new neighbor. The InterBulk Group, the world 

market leader for tank containers and Europe’s largest 

provider of bulk cargo containers, is setting up its largest 

terminal to date. 

Cover photograph: duisport stand 

at this years transport logistic exhibition 

in Munich, photo: Fink 

Photos: Rolf Köppen except for the ones 

signed with another name 

Articles signed by the authors do not necessarily 

represent the opinion of the publisher. 

Articles may not be reprinted, unless the 

source is quoted.

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The 12th international specialist exhibition for logistics, telematics and transport once again broke records despite the economic 

crisis with more than 1,760 exhibitors (+11%) from 55 countries and 48,000 visitors from around the world, exceeding all 

expectations. The brightly lit duisport exhibition stand in the entrance area of Hall B 4 showed itself to be a logistical-maritime 

beacon at transport logistic 2009 from May 12 to 15. 

(Dü) Politicians also recognized the outstanding 

role of transport logistics as the 

leading trade fair for the global transport 

and logistics sector in tough times and 

gave exhibitors and visitors encouragement 

for the future. “The tremendous 

interest in this year’s transport logistic is a 

positive signal for the entire sector. A 

very clear impetus is coming from this 

event and this place – and that is just 

what we need," said German Transport 

Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee at the offi- 

cial opening of the exhibition. “My Ministry 

is doing everything it can to support 

the logistics sector with its 2.7 million 

employees throughout Germany. Together 

with the stimulus programs we are 

investing 12 billion Euros in 2009 and 

2010 respectively in the transport infrastructure 

and combined transport, which 

is more than ever before. We are now 

preparing ourselves for the time after the 

crisis. Germany will also remain the 

Number 1 logistics location worldwide in 

photos: Fink 

the future.” The Dutch Transport Minister 

Camiel Eurlings concurred. “The 

expansion experienced by transport logistic 

is sending an important sign. It is giving 

us hope again in tough times.” 

Encouragement in tough times 

The exhibitors and visitors to transport 

logistic 2009 also shared this opinion. A 

survey conducted by tns Infratest showed 

that 70 per cent of the exhibiting companies 

and 58 per cent of the specialist visi-

tors expect an improvement in the economic 

situation in the coming two years. 

Michael Kubenz, President of Germany’s 

forwarding and logistics association, 

Deutscher Speditions- und Logistikverband 

(DSLV), and Chairman of the Advisory 

Board of transport logistic commented, 

“transport logistic 2009 is giving us 

real encouragement. It is sending valuable 

signals and providing impetus for the 

future of our industry.” 

Although companies are currently 

restricting travel by their employees, the 

exhibition nevertheless attracted around 

48,000 visitors, which is slightly higher 

than the number in the logistics boom 

year of 2007. The exhibitors noted in 

particular the high quality of the company 

representatives and found that discussions 

with customers were more intensive 

than ever before, as well as 

producing an unexpectedly high number 

of specific enquiries. The fact that over 

one third of the visitors came from the 

forwarding industry and trade was rated 

positively by the exhibitors. 

duisport – a stable factor in the 

Rhine-Ruhr area 

“We have had significantly more discussions 

with decision makers than in previous 

years and, despite the crisis, the 

interest in logistics chains via the Port of 

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Duisburg has pleasantly increased. For 

this purpose the wide logistics range at 

our locations on the Lower Rhine and in 

the Ruhr region have proved themselves 

to be stabilizing factors in the current, 

somewhat harsh economic climate,” 

commented duisport Chief Executive 

Officer Erich Staake. But interest in the 

Lutz Lienenkämper, NRW-Minister for Construction and Transport since March 2009 with the duisport 

board members Thomas Schlipköther (left) and Markus Bangen (right) 

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Trade fair tour on the duisport stand (from left): Camiel Eurlings, the Dutch Transport Minister, his German 

counterpart Wolfgang Tiefensee and Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG 

duisport combined transport hub has 

remained uninterrupted. Thus Staake and 

his team were able to have discussions 

about new combi-train connections with 

South and East European sea and inland 

waterway terminals. 

“Thanks to improved rail connections the 

importance of Italian seaports to European 

container traffic will grow in future. 

Therefore the duisport customer contact 

trip is going to the ports of Koper and Triest 

at the head of the Adriatic Sea at the 

end of August 2009. We want to strengthen 

contacts made at the exhibition here 

and present the multi-modal network and 

the numerous services of the Port of Duisburg 

and logistics locations together with 

out port neighbors,” said Staake. 

The duisport Executive Board members 

Markus Bangen and Thomas Schlipköther 

also used the high presence of 

international visitors to make new contacts. 

“The crisis is not only being used in 

Germany to prepare for future growth 

scenarios by investing in new infrastructure. 

Therefore Munich was a good 

opportunity to market the range of 

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Numerous intensive contacts, including significantly more with decision makers than in past years, as well as lots of specific enquiries made transport logistic 

a worthwhile investment. 

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Allgemeine Land- und Seespedition 

ALS, CM Eurologistik, CTD Dortmund, 

DeCeTe Duisburger Container- 

Terminalgesellschaft, Deutsche Transport 

Genossenschaft (DTG), EWT 

Schiffahrtsgesellschaft, Gelsen-Log, 

HTAG Häfen und Transport, Imperial 

Reederei, Lehnkering logistics & ser- 

vices, Planungsgesellschaft kombinierter 

Verkehr Duisburg, Seacon Logistics 

Germany and Simon Hegele 

services of our new subsidiary ‘duisport 

consult’,” said Schlipköther. “Despite the 

crisis long term investment projects in 

energy generation and indus- 

trial plant are continuing. Our packing 

logistics range bundled in VTS created 

great interest in Munich,” added Bangen. 

Satisfied co-exhibitors 

The duisport-Group did not only present 

its own range of services on its stand. Port 

residents and numerous well known Duisburg 

handling, forwarding, shipping and 

charter companies were there as co-exhibitors 

(see adjoining box). 

For Robert Baack, a board member of 

Lehnkering Holding GmbH since January 

2009 and head of the Shipping Logistics & 

Services division, contacts with leading 

representatives of the forwarding industry 

were of prime importance. “The Munich 

exhibition was a good opportunity to keep 

up contacts in the chemical logistics sector 

and to develop new connections. We also 

continued to send positive signals with our 

presence in Munich.” 

Gerhard Hilscher, Operations Manager of 

the Duisburg container terminal DeCeTe, 

was very satisfied with the results of the 

exhibition. “We were able to make new, 

first class customer contacts and note 

down numerous specific enquiries. Obviously 

the renewed costs pressure caused 

by the economic situation is leading many 

companies to consider new, cost saving 

paths, including for logistics. We have 

taken a great deal of work with us from 

Munich and can write lots of tenders in 

the next few weeks.”

Hans Egon Schwarz, member of the 

board of Deutschen Transportgenossenschaft 

Binnenschiffahrt e.G., had already 

invited some customers in advance to the 

duisport exhibition stand where DTG 

was flying the flag for the third time. 

“You cannot keep up such a large 

number of top customer contacts at any 

other exhibition in the way you can in 

Munich. The discussions we had and also 

the specific enquiries have encouraged us 

to think that things will get better in 

inland waterways too during the course 

of the year. The pleasantly bright ambience 

of the duisport exhibition stand 

with its excellent hospitality also sent 

positive signals to our customers.” 

Attractive supporting program 

As was the case two years ago the girl 

group “Female Vibes”, performing from 

4pm to 6pm daily (and beyond) ensured 

there was a good vibe both musically and 

visually for the exhibitors and guests on 

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(lr) As part of Balkenende’s NRW tour 

Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of 

Duisburger Hafen AG, Günther 

Kozlowski, Chairman of the Supervisory 

Board and State Sectary in the Transport 

Ministry, and the Mayor of Duisburg, 

Adolf Sauerland, came together. During 

their visit to the logport site issues that 

were dealt with included the development 

of the “Betuwe” transport route (the rail 

connection between Rotterdam and the 

Ruhr region) and the “Eiserner Rhein” 

route, the rail connection between Antwerp 

and Duisburg. In order to safeguard 

the location’s growth the discussion partners 

agreed to intensify the cooperation 

between the Port of Duisburg and the Port 

of Rotterdam. 

transport logistic 2009 

“Female Vibes” wow their public once again – musically and visually. 

the joint duisport stand. The four attractive 

professional musicians from Leipzig, 

Berlin and Frankfurt contributed to 

ensuring that the Duisburg company representatives 

had plenty of visitors even at 

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the evening “blue hour” and wrapped 

the evenings up with excellent soul, jazz 

and rock. 

On May 13, 2009 the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, Minister President of the State of 

NRW, visited the Port of Duisburg. 

NRW-Minister President Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, the Dutch Minister President Jan Balkenende, Erich Staake, 

Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG, and Duisburg’s Mayor Adolf Sauerland (from left) 


8 duisport magazine June 2009 LOGPORT Gateway West-Terminal 

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At the beginning of January 2009, Duisburger Hafen AG was able to start operations at the so-called Gateway West-Terminal on 

the logport II site in the south of Duisburg together with the Imperial subsidiary RRT. 

(ag) When the duisport Group took over 

the former MHD-Sudamin industrial site 

at the beginning of 2006 it was clear that 

there was a lot of work to be done. Since 

then a total of around 60 million Euros 

has been invested in order to transform 

the heavily polluted former metalworks 

into a modern, multi-modal cargo hand- 

ling centre. “Operating a facility like this 

on this site today is a lot of fun,” says Thomas 

Waldmüller, Commercial Manager of 

RRT and the manager in charge of the 

Gateway-West Terminal. The Rhein Ruhr 

Terminalgesellschaft für Container- und 

Güterumschlag mbH (RRT) belongs to the 

internationally active Imperial Logistics 

Group. 

Snow shovels before the start 

Before the “fun” however, the duisport 

team, including Waldmüller and his colleagues, 

had to roll their sleeves up. At the 

start of operations at the new container 

terminal on January 5 snow shovels were 

initially called for. “The onset of winter 

covered the whole terminal in snow. In 

order to be able to move the first boxes 

sensibly we first had to shovel a few 

spaces free of snow. We then handled the 

first ship at minus 18°C,” laughs Wald- 

müller. But since then the new terminal 

has operated without problems. The division 

of work between duisport and RRT is 

clear. “duisport supplies and operates the 

overhead gantries, we’re responsible for 

the reach stackers and terminal staff,” 

explained the terminal boss. The waterfront 

public terminal area, which can be 

used without discrimination by third parties, 

is 35,000sq.m in size. This includes 

the overhead gantries and four half rail 

platforms, each 310m in length – the quay 

is 350 meters long.

In the right hand corner towards the river, 

RRT is currently developing an additional 

area of 35,000sq.m itself. Facilities here 

will include a handling building which 

will replace the office container currently 

used. 

Priority ship and rail 

There are no long columns of trucks at the 

Gateway-Terminal. “The boxes that we 

handle here come and go 95% by rail and 

inland waterway,” emphasized Waldmüller. 

The transport concept that connects 

the Upper Rhine with the Lower 

Rhine by inland waterway foresees numerous 

direct transports, and thus shorter 

transport times, from Duisburg and to the 

ZARA range (Zeebrügge, Antwerp, Rotterdam, 

Amsterdam) and a sustainable 

increase in transport quality. “The new 

terminal will guarantee better traffic predictability 

and significantly improve the 

seaport connection with the Upper 

Rhine,” said Port boss Erich Staake. 

“Our future terminal is directly on the 

Rhine and is therefore optimally suited for 

Gateway traffic. We will develop this system 

in the future,” said Heinz Bartels, a 

member of the Imperial Logistics International 

board. Regional feeder trains are 

also planned following the example of the 

“Ost-Westfalen-Xpress” (OWX, or East 

Westphalia Express) that RTT has already 

been successfully marketing since August 

2007. At New Year’s the OWX was 

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The so-called East-Westphalia Xpress already arrives at the new terminal. Extra rail shuttles are planned 

to handle the Gateway traffic between the Upper Rhine, the seaports and the hinterland. 

changed over from the Rhein-Ruhr-Terminal 

in the Paralellhafen to the Gateway 

West-Terminal. Since January 2009 the 

train has been running six times a week 

(instead of five times) from Duisburg to 

Unna and Bönen to supply and remove 

waste from the warehouses of the various 

retailing groups there. With a capacity of 

81 TEU, the train relives the roads in the 

Ruhr region of about 20,000 truck movements 

a year. 

A train in good hands 

While Thomas Waldmüller and his colleagues 

at RTT ensure that the OWX is 

There are no long columns of trucks at the Gateway West-Terminal because 95% of the containers are 

handled by ship and rail. 

always well utilized Volker Schmitz takes 

care that the train is always in place punctually. 

Schmitz one of the managers of 

duisport rail GmbH and duisport agency 

GmbH. “duisport agency is the contractual 

partner of RRT, duisport rail provides traction, 

i.e. the locos and the staff for the 

OWX,” explains Schmitz. He learnt about 

the rail specialism at Deutsche Bahn AG 

and has been responsible for the tracks 

business at duisport since 1993. “The 

accredited railway undertaking duisport 

rail is an important instrument for the 

Port. With ten of our own locomotives we 

concentrate on track traffic within a radius 

of 100 km around Duisburg. And because 

we limit ourselves to traffic from and to 

the Port we maintain our neutrality 

towards other railway undertakings,” said 

Schmitz, describing duisport rail’s range of 

services.

10 duisport magazine June 2009 THE PORT InterBulk Group 

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Occupants of sites in the Duisburg Nordhafen are getting a new neighbor. The InterBulk Group, the world market leader for tank 

containers and Europe’s largest provider of bulk cargo containers, is setting up its largest terminal to date. 

(MW) “We want to import bulk goods to 

the centre of Europe. Therefore we settled 

on Duisburg. We found the ideal location 

for the onwards distribution of goods here, 

by block train, inland waterway or on the 

roads”, said Koert van Wissen, justifying 

the choice of the location. The Chief Executive 

Officer even spoke about a very 

important milestone for his group of companies 

and added, “With this strategic initiative 

we can offer our customers a high 

quality and inexpensive solution for 

handling dry bulk cargo in containers.” 

Hub for the market leader 

Meanwhile Erich Staake was pleased that 

his industrial location policy was bearing 

fruit again. “This confirms our strategy of 

continuing to invest in networking and 

developing duisport,” remarked the Chief 

Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen 

AG. It was particularly pleasing that in the 

InterBulk Group another worldwide market 

leader in multimodal logistics was not 

only locating in the Port of Duisburg but 

was also setting up its Central European 

hub on the former Stahlinsel. 

photo: InterBulk 

Just what an attractive investor port boss 

Erich Staake had gained is made clear by 

some facts and figures. With more than 

7,000 units the British company is one of 

the largest providers of tank containers for 

liquids in the world. With 13,000 intermodal 

container units for transporting 

bulk cargo the logistics group is in the top 

spot in this sector in the European table. 

As recently as February 2006 InterBulk 

took over two companies, “United Transport 

Tankcontainers” (UTT), which was 

one of the top three providers in its sector

worldwide, as well as “InBulk Technologies” 

(InBulk). In April 2007 Interbulk 

reinforced itself once again with – in terms 

of its fleet size – Europe’s leading bulk 

cargo provider, UBC. 

duisport to build all the infrastructure 

But even for the internationally active 

logistics provider InterBulk the Duisburg 

project has unusually large dimensions. 

With an area of around 20,000 square 

meters the planned terminal will be about 

twice as large as every other handling site 

in the logistics group. The foreseen hand- 

ling capacity is 25,000 containers per 

year. For this purpose up to 40 new jobs 

are being created on the Stahlinsel. The 

site will be prepared by the duisport 

Group, as Rainer Bleckmann from the 

Construction Department reports. “We are 

building the whole infrastructure – i.e. the 

asphalt surfacing, the loading platform, the 

boundary fence – and we’re laying the 

necessary utility and waste disposal pipes 

and cables,” said the construction engineer 

from the Port of Duisburg. An angle 

bracket wall will be set along the loading 

platform which will allow wagons to be 

loaded and unloaded with containers 

along a length of 250 meters. To do this 

reach stackers will be used according to 

Bleckmann. He added that this container 

handling equipment was frequently used 

in both container depots and in the intermodal 

area. They move with the help of 

so-called spreaders – as well as with piggyback 

containers, truck and trailer combinations 

or semi-trailers. He explained that 

the big advantage is that they can be 

stacked in several rows behind each 

other. But due to their heavy weight 

reach stackers can only be used on firm 

ground. “Therefore the whole site will be 

asphalted,” explained Bleckmann. 

Trimodal transshipment 

The containers will be freighted on up to 

three tipplers. These make it possible to 

load bulk cargo from containers in rail 

freight tank wagons or in silo trucks before 

feeding the loading unit into the Port of 

Duisburg transport network again. The 

containers will arrive at and depart from 

InterBulk Group 

the new handling terminal by truck or rail. 

Ship loads will be handled in the nearby 

DeCeTe terminal in the Südhafen. From 

there trucks will take over the rest of the 

short distance to the InterBulk site. Above 

all this concerns bulk containers lined 

with inliners and filled with bulk cargo, 

mostly plastic granulates. Customers will 

come from the minerals, food and chemicals 

industries. InterBulk also wants to 

provide value added services in a mobile 

storage hall, such as handling and re-picking 

goods in small packages. The first handling 

activities have already been planned 

for the second quarter of this year. 

THE PORT 


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The organizers of the 10th Logistics Forum Duisburg did not actually want to hear the word “crisis” on March 4 and 5 in the 

Mercatorhalle in Duisburg. “Anyone who uses that word will have to pay five Euros to the German Maritime Search and Rescue 

Service,” announced Dr. Thomas Wimmer, Chairman of the Management Board of the German Logistics Association, tongue in 

cheek on front of about 600 international experts. 

(MW) But even this threat did not help. 

Dr. Hugo Fiege put 20 Euros in the pot 

just in case at the beginning of his presentation. 

“Without mentioning this word I 

cannot describe the current situation in 

the sector,” justified the Chief Executive 

Officer of the Fiege Group from Greven 

with a smile and to applause from the 

auditorium. But he then became serious 

when he spoke about the worst economic 

crisis that the sector has ever had to experience. 

“At the same time transport logistics 

is doing considerably worse than contract 

logistics,” he asserted. But he 

described the light at the end of the tunnel 

that he could see to the logistics special- 

ists. Because the current collapse in 

growth was only a short term problem. 

“In the medium term,” continued Dr. 

Hugo Fiege, “the currently very tense economic 

situation can also become an opportunity.” 

Grow because of the crisis!? 

After all, logistics was not one of the core 

competences of manufacturing companies. 

But due to the tense economic situation 

outsourcing logistics services to specialist 

service providers would also significantly 

increase again. Fiege: “I think that we will 

grow because of the crisis. In this way we 

will probably be in a very different situa- 

tion in international competition in a few 

years’ time than we are today.” To do this 

however, infrastructure development was 

necessary in order to be able to transport 

cargo quicker, more cost effectively and in 

a more environmentally friendly manner. 

Networks between logistics service providers 

were also needed where everyone contributed 

their core competences. By working 

in harmony the value added would 

increase for every participant. A further 

approach concerned vertical diversification 

(taking over provision of additional ser- 

vices) by the logistics provider. According 

to Dr. Fiege these included financial ser- 

vices, services close to production (such as

assembly) and value added services. These 

would lead to the development of value 

added in Germany as well as securing 

jobs. 

High solution orientation 

Christa Thoben also pulled out five Euros 

for the pot as she briefly spoke about the 

tense economic situation in the state. “But 

that’s all. I’m stingy there,” said the North 

Rhine Westphalia Minister for Economic 

Affairs and Energy. In her presentation the 

politician also remembered when the Duisburg 

Logistics Forum began. “At that time 

the state of North Rhine Westphalia pro- 

vided initial financing,” said Christa 

Thoben. Therefore the LFD was a successful 

example of how projects initially subsidized 

by public funds could be transferred 

into the private sector. Duisburg’s Mayor, 

Adolf Sauerland, also remembered the start 

of today’s successful event. “At that time 

the press headline was, ‘The large Berlin 

10th Logistics Forum Duisburg 

logistics congress has a new daughter.’ 

Today we can claim that it is a very beautiful 

daughter,” asserted the Duisburg City 

head to applause from the auditorium. 

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BVL Chairman Dr. Thomas Wimmer (left) and awards presenter 

Prof. Peter Klaus (right) celebrate with the karldischinger team. 

As part of the Logistics Forum Duisburg 

the German Logistics Association presented 

the Logistics Service Award for 

outstanding and innovative logistics services. 

This year the prize went to the specialist 

forwarder, karldischinger logistikdienstleister 

GmbH & Co KG from 

Ehrenkirchen-Kirchofen near Freiburg. 

The company was distinguished for the 

“kd tri-deck concept”, which has been 

implemented in practice, a trend-setting 

trailer concept in automotive logistics. 

The concept emerged in close cooperation 

with the company’s client Johnson 

Controls. The capacity of a trailer for 

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State economics minister Christa Thoben escorted by Dr. Hugo Fiege, Chairman of the BVL Advisory 

Board and Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG. 

transporting vehicle seats 

was increased by about 

40 % by this project. This 

reduces the number of 

transports for the same 

number of seats from 

9,743 to 7,068 i.e. nearly 

30 % a year. In doing so 

203,268 driving kilometers 

are avoided. “The 

project demonstrates how 

a medium sized service 

provider can work successfully 

at the same level as a client that 

belongs in the league of large companies, 

and how in doing so the service provider’s 

creativity and know how were 

proactively involved and thus resulting 

in visible, measurable success for both 

partners,” according to Prof. Peter Klaus, 

Chairman of the jury and Head of Fraunhofer 

ATL Nuremberg, in his presentation 

address. He particularly underlined 

the cost savings achieved, the benefits to 

the environment and not least a consolidation 

of the business relationship. 

“That’s what I call a successful Win-Win 

partnership!” said Klaus. 

And Professor Raimund Klinkner, Chairman 

of the hosts, the BVL, asserted the 

following in an interview with duisport 

Magazine, “When the first Logistics 

Forum took place in Duisburg in 2000 the 

city was starting to develop into a logistics 

service provision centre. At that time there 

were a lot of skeptics. Then a success story 

began. Since the end of the 90s duisport 

has developed from being a bulk goods 

port into a modern general cargo and 

logistics location. Today it is one of the 

leading logistics turntables in Europe with 

excellent transport connections.” With a 

glance at this development the BVL Chairman 

asserted with great pleasure, “The 

Duisburg location and the Forum have 

given each other reciprocal impetus year 

on year – and this will also be the case in 

the future.” In Professor Klinkner’s opinion 

the Logistics Forum was always practice 

orientated and presented analyses and 

solution approaches to current questions 

facing the transport and infrastructure sector. 

“We see the strength of this Forum is 

this solution orientation. The LFD gives 

examples of operational excellence. The 

participants derive direct benefits for their 

daily work,” said the association officer. 

However, there were also sufficient opportunities 

to exchange experiences about 

current world economic developments. 

Networking locations and modes of 

transport 

That logistics and thus also the LFD were 

optimally positioned was also confirmed 

by Dr. Herbert Luetkestratkoetter in his 

presentation. “In the Ruhr conurbation 


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The outdoor sequence at the D3T-Terminal in logport I attracted great interest despite the rain. 

logistics expertise has grown historically 

and is deeply anchored. The existing 

dense network of transport routes on land, 

on water and in the air demonstrates this. 

However, of necessity the region has had 

to live from its reserves for decades. Now 

investment is vital for the Ruhr region as a 

modern industrial, services and logistics 

location, precisely in cargo transport. It 

now strongly depends on better networking 

modes of transport with each other,” 

reported the patron of the infrastructure 

working group of the Initiativkreis Ruhr. 

A range of measures were available for 

this purpose – including intelligent management 

of transport flows, better networking 

of transport systems, optimally 

linking operational procedures and using 

the most suitable mode of transport in 

each case. Luetkestratkoetter: “With these 

means we can position the Ruhr as a 

model conurbation worldwide for mobility 

and logistics.” A region that already numbered 

3,000 logistics companies with well 

over 100,000 employees now. 

Sustainably increasing value added 

However, to make the Ruhr conurbation 

into the largest inland transport turntable 

in Europe targeted improvements had to 

be made to the infrastructure. This particularly 

concerned developing multi-modal 

transport nodes and also implementing 

rail-based projects and developing the 

inland waterways. In this way the value 

added on site could be sustainably 

increased. Erich Staake also spoke about 

the necessity to network locations and 

modes of transport. “Over the past few 

years we have invested several hundred 

thousand Euros in developing the infrastructure 

necessary for this,” said the 

Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger 

Hafen AG. As a current example for the 

further networking of the Ruhr conurbation 

the Duisburg Port head mentioned 

the “Good Luck Express”, a rail shuttle 

that connected the ports of Duisburg, 

Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund with each 

other on every weekday (see also p. 22). 

“Via the Port of Duisburg these locations 

also obtain a direct connection to the large 

seaports in the Netherlands and Belgium,” 

reported the CEO. This example also 

showed that infrastructure expansion 

could only take place with the help of 

partners who were as strong as they were 

efficient. Staake: “We have been lucky to 

be able to attract many of these expert 

partners to Duisburg.” 

Ecology as an opportunity – Example 

SBB Cargo 

Of course during this year’s LFD there 

were also some workshops again where 

experts could withdraw to debate specific 

problems. The main theme of the con- 

ference was “Sustainability through efficiency 

– reduce costs, save resources”. For 

example, answers had to be found about 

whether logistics can be used as an opportunity 

for logistics. For Marco Terranova, 

Chief Executive Officer of SBB Cargo in 

Italy the answer to this is clear. “In times 

of global climate warming and the increasing 

growth in traffic we see environmental 

awareness and energy efficiency not as 

“nice to” but as “must have”. However, 

environmental commitment is not a goal 

to be reached but a permanent task.” And 

although the railway was already an 

extremely ecological mode of transport his 

company was actively committed to even 

further reductions in CO 2 and noise emissions. 

For example through energy saving 

driving techniques, particle filters and low 

noise brakes. 

SBB cargo also links the different modes of 

transport and commits itself to the most 

energy efficient overall transport. “For 

example, when transporting 40,000 

tonnes of steel, pre-carriage is by ship to 

Rotterdam, rail transport from Rotterdam 

to North Italy and delivery over the last 

few miles is by truck. With this rail transport 

alone we save 2,400 tonnes of CO 2 

annually compared to the roads,” according 

to the expert for cargo transport. Of 

course it was not just work, work, work 

at the 10th LFD. As always the hosts 

from the German Logistics Association 

also provided some entertainment for their 

guests in the evenings this time. And 

many questions were first conclusively discussed 

over beer, wine and a musical 

background.

(K+N) Alongside generous areas for goods 

handling the multi-functional logistics 

center features a high number of truck 

loading ramps; the existing 59 have been 

supplemented by an additional 46. The 

modern technology of the facility includes 

a fully automated and space-saving low 

stacker shelving system for 74,500 

Europallets, the largest of its kind in 

Europe, which has increased the total 

number of storage positions to 94,000. 

This infrastructure makes possible the 

handling of a maximum of 150 trucks or 

8,000 pallet deliveries per day – and completely 

paperless. With a high quality 

break in alarm as well as a sprinkler system 

throughout the facility the building is 

also at the cutting edge in terms of safety 

and security technology. 

Investments of 22 million Euros 

Kühne + Nagel has been present at logport 

since 2003 and provides integrated 

logistics solutions for various international 

customers, who include leading computer 

and printer manufacturers, from this site. 

The increasing demand for contract ser- 

vices at this preferred European logistics 

turntable had made the extension building 

necessary. “The investment of 22 million 

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After a construction time of almost one and a half years Kühne + Nagel was able to start operations in the extension to its logistics 

center in logport in Duisburg in August 2008. Now the company has eight halls available for its contract logistics activities 

with a total of around 49,000sq.m of storage and office space 

Euros in total underlines the significance 

we attach to the logistics location Duisburg”, 

explained Hans-Georg Brinkmann, 

Chairman of the board of Managing Directors 

of Kühne + Nagel (AG + Co) KG. 

www.kn-portal.com

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up to 35 t weight. 

Storekeeping and storage in 

multi-purpose warehouses. 

Transportation of general 

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Shipping List 

LINER CONNECTIONS 

INLAND CONTAINER TRANSPORT 

International from Duisburg Shipping Company Terminal Ship type* 

Belgium 

Antwerp 4 x per week 1, 4, 11 DIT B 

Antwerp 3 x per week 2 DeCeTe B 

Antwerp 3 x per week 1 RRT B 

Antwerp 2 x per week 9 DeCeTe B 

Antwerp weekly 4 DIT B 

The Netherlands 

Rotterdam daily 2 DeCeTe B 

Rotterdam 6 x per week 9 DeCeTe B 

Rotterdam 5 x per week 1, 4, 11 DIT B 

Rotterdam 4 x per week 1 RRT B 

SEA-GOING CONTAINER TRANSPORT 

International from Duisburg Shipping Company Terminal Ship type* 

Great Britain 

Hull, London (Tilbury) 6 x per week 11 DeCeTe B/V 

Goole, London (Tilbury) mo, wed, fr 13 DeCeTe V 

Goole, London (Tilbury) 2 x per week 13 DeCeTe B/V 

Grangemouth (Scotland) 2 x per week 11 DeCeTe B/V 

Blyth/Grangemouth (Scotland) tues, fr 13 DeCeTe B/V 

TERMINALS 

DeCeTe Duisburger Container-Terminal GmbH + 49 (0) 203-80 90 600 info@decete.de 

DIT Duisburg Intermodal Terminal GmbH + 49 (0) 2065-49 92 65 zentrale@dit-duisburg.de 

RRT Rhein-Ruhr Terminal GmbH + 49 (0) 203-31 85 60 info@rrt.container-terminal.de

LINER CONNECTIONS 

CONVENTIONAL SEA-GOING TRANSPORT 

International from Duisburg Shipping Company Ship type* 

Great Britain 

River Humber-Ports daily 7 V 

Ports on the East and West coast 3 x per week 5 V 

Sutton Bridge, Flixborough 2 x per week 3 V 

Killingholme, Sutton Bridge, Flixborough 1 - 2 x per week 10 V 

Hartlepool, Newport, Boston, Sharpness, Northfleet weekly 3 V 

Greece, Italy, Northern Africa two-weekly 6 V 

Norway 

Horten, Kristiansand, Sandnes, Bergen, Trondheim 

Frederikstad, Stavanger, Aalesund weekly 14 V 

TRAMP/TRANSPORT PROJECT CARGO 

CONVENTIONAL SEE-GOING TRANSPORT – Regular sailings upon request 

National Shipping Company 

German Baltic Ports (e. g. Kiel, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund) 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 

International 

Denmark (e. g. Fredericia, Kopenhagen, Odense) 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 

Great Britain (e. g. Grangemouth and all british Seaports) 3, 7, 8, 12 

Finland (e. g. Ports on the South and West Coast) 6, 7, 10 

France (e. g. Bordeaux, Caens, Le Havre) 3, 6, 7, 10, 12 

Greece, Italy, Northern Africa all Ports on the Mediterranean Sea 7, 10 

Ireland (e. g. Cork, Drogheda, Fojnes) 3, 7, 8, 12 

Littuania, Latvia, Estonia, CIS Countries all baltic Countries/Seaports 6, 7, 10, 12 

Norway (e. g. Oslo) 6 

Poland (e. g. Danzig, Gdynia, Stettin) 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 

Portugal (e. g. Aveiro, Figueira, Leixoes, Lissabon, Setubal) 6, 7, 8, 10 

Russia ( e. g. Moskau, St. Petersburg) 7 

Sweden (e. g. Göteborg, Malmö, Sölvesborg, Stockholm) 7, 8, 12 

Spain (e. g. Aviles, Bermeo, Bilbao, Pasajes, Santander) 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 

Turkey, Black Sea 

SHIPPING COMPANIES 

1. Alcotrans Container Line B.V. + 31 (0) 78-7 50 12 20 info@alcotrans.nl 

2. H & S Container Line GmbH + 49 (0) 203-80 03 101 info@hs-containerline.com 

3. Haeger & Schmidt International GmbH + 49 (0) 203-80 03 255 chartering@haegerundschmidt.com 

4. Independent Container Line + 32 (0) 3-2 32 19 79 info@icl.ltd.com 

5. Intraha Reederei-Kontor GmbH + 49 (0) 203-80 08 00 info@intraha.de 

6. Meerpahl & Meyer GmbH + 49 (0) 203-7139690 duisburg@meerpahl-meyer.eu 

7. Rhein-, Maas- und See-Schiffahrtskontor GmbH + 49 (0) 203-804202 rms-team@rheinmaas.de 

8. Rhein-Nord-Ostsee Befrachtungs GmbH + 49 (0) 203-8 09 69 10 rno@rhein-nord-ost-see.com 

9. Rhinecontainer B.V. + 31 (0) 78-62 51 555 info@rhinecontainer.com 

10. Saar-Rhein-Transportgesellschaft mbH + 49 (0) 203-80 07 60 srt@saarrhein.de 

11. Samskip B.V. + 49 (0) 211-6 50 44 70 duesseldorf@samskip.com 

12. See-Transit Schiffahrts- und Speditionskontor + 49 (0) 2066-2299-0 operating@seetransit.de 

13. UCI United Container Intermodal Schifffahrtsges. mbH + 49 (0) 203-48 29 10 hoffmeister@united-container.com 

14. Wilson NRL Transport GmbH + 49 (0) 203-80 95 70 dbg.chart@wilsonship.de 

* B: Barge, V: Vessel (Short Sea), B/V: Barge/Vessel 

All data in the shipping list are based on information provides by the shipping companies. 

You can also find the shipping list under 

www.duisport.com in the category “logistics and transportation“. 

SHIPPING LIST 


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Marseille via Ludwigshafen 

GB - Great Britain 

Manchester mo, wed, fr B mo, wed, fr B 2 DIT 

H - Hungary 

Budapest tues, wed C mo + wed B 2 DIT 

Budapest fr D mo C 2 DIT 

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Desio mo - fr C tues - sa C 7 DIT 

Novara tues - thurs B mo, wed, thurs C 5 DUSS 

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Rotterdam mo - sa B mo - sa B 1 DIT 

Rotterdam MVTE mo - fr A mo - fr B 5 DeCeTe 

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Rotterdam RSC mo - sa B mo - fr A 4 DUSS 

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Gadki (Poznan) mo, wed C mo, wed C 5 DUSS 

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Gliwice mo, wed C mo, wed C 5 DUSS 

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Pruszkow (Warszawa) mo, wed C mo, wed C 5 DUSS 

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Slawkow via Schkopau 4 DIT 

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20 duisport magazine June 2009 CONNECTIONS Logistics concept for chemical goods 

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duisport agency GmbH, the central marketing and sales company of the Port of Duisburg and the Lanxess subsidiary Aliseca 

have developed a new transport logistics concept. The main attraction: costly empty running is avoided using an empty container 

depot in Duisburg. 

(MW) The railway logistics service pro- 

vider of Duisburger Hafen AG have mastered 

a great challenge and have developed 

a new transport logistics concept 

together with Aliseca GmbH, a one hundred 

per cent subsidiary of the special 

chemicals group Lanxess. Aliseca was 

looking for a reliable logistics partner to 

transport chemical goods by rail between 

Krefeld-Uerdingen and the North Sea ports 

in Rotterdam and Antwerp with a concept 

that was both suitable and cost effective. 

Empty running, according to the declared 

aim of the Lanxess service provider, 

should be avoided as far as possible. 

New empty container depot 

“We have devised a concept that essen- 

tially rests on two columns: on a new 

empty container depot in Duisburg and on 

an already existing shuttle network which 

incorporates both the North Sea ports of 

Rotterdam and Antwerp,” explained Vol- 

ker Schmitz, railway expert of the duisport 

Group. 

Thanks to the new depot concept empty 

container trains merely run on the stretch 

between Duisburg and Krefeld-Uerdingen 

and from there directly on to the loading 

points on the Lanxess operating premises. 

Once they arrive there the containers are 

not loaded by hand but by forklift directly 

on the container vehicle. Then they roll 

towards Duisburg. “With the new empty 

depot we offer the company an efficient 

and inexpensive alternative to truck forwarding,” 

sums up Schmitz. 

“With this very innovative, new transport 

concept we have developed an interesting 

cross company alternative in very little 

time for our road transport for this stretch” 

Gerd Deimel, logistics head of Aliseca, also 

emphasized. “On one side this new concept 

pays off and on the other it also meets

our company claim to be increasingly 

focusing on environmentally friendly 

transport.” 

With about 900 employees in Germany 

Aliseca GmbH supports the worldwide 

operations of Lanxess with technical ser- 

vices that are important for the manufacture 

of chemical processes and for supplying 

the customer. The services at the 

Leverkusen, Krefeld-Uerdingen, Dormagen 

and Brunsbüttel sites include logistics 

services. 

5,000 containers a year on the tracks 

Once they arrive in Duisburg the containers 

are allocated to different shuttle trains 

according to their destination. The stretch 

to Antwerp is operated by duisport with 

its own trains but in contrast the transport 

to Rotterdam is guaranteed by external 

service providers. The overall transport is 

carried out as duisport agency’s responsibility 

while duisport rail bears responsi- 

bility for the transport between Krefeld- 

Logistics concept for chemical goods 

Uerdingen and Duisburg. “At the moment 

the transport takes place five times a 

week. Annually about 5,000 containers 

are transported on the tracks between 

Krefeld-Uerdingen and Rotterdam or Antwerp,” 

says Schmitz. 

Overnight to the German North Sea ports 

The new connection between Krefeld-Uerdingen 

and the North Sea ports Rotterdam 

and Antwerp is merely an example of the 

efficiency of the Duisburg shuttle network. 

In the new Duisburg rail logistics provider 

concept the “Good Luck Express”, which 

connects the Chemiepark Marl with Dortmund 

and the “Albatros System” from the 

TFG Transfracht Internationale Gesell- 

schaft für Kombinierten Güterverkehr 

mbH, play a decisive role. This train connects 

Dortmund with the German North 

Sea ports. “Every day we build a bridge 

from Marl to the German North Sea ports. 

That’s seven wagons a day. They run with 

the existing train from Marl to Duisburg 

and from there to Dortmund. They are 

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unloaded there and then travel with the 

outbound train towards the German 

North Sea ports. In this way we have a 

night train connection from Duisburg via 

Dortmund to the German North sea 

ports,” enthuses Schmitz about the new 

destination in the Duisburg shuttle network. 

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22 duisport magazine June 2009 NETWORKING Good Luck Express 

photo: Port of Dortmund 

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The ports of Dortmund and Duisburg already concluded a cooperation agreement in 2004 to promote the strengthening of both 

locations as well as networking and developing the Ruhr region. This collaboration experienced a significant enhancement at 

the start of the year – in terms of personnel and through a joint range of services. 

(vK) The two “endpoints of the Ruhr 

region” are moving together in many 

areas. Since January 2009 for example, 

the duisport board member Markus Bangen 

has strengthened the management 

team of the Port of Dortmund. As CEO he 

is responsible for the technical department, 

the acquisition of cargo flows, 

attracting new customers to the Port and 

for intelligent traffic networking. Rainer 

Pubanz is in charge of daily business. 

Markus Bangen: “It is all about using 

Duisburg’s know how – in the interna- 

tional area above all – for Dortmund too 

and in the end for the common cause of 

the Ruhr region.” 

A visible sign of the deepened cooperation 

is a new container rail shuttle. The so-called 

“Good Luck Express” has been running 

five times a week between the largest 

inland port in the world and the largest 

canal port in Europe since the beginning 

of March 2009. And on the way it stops at 

Gelsenkirchen when required. This is no 

coincidence, because just about one year 

ago the Port of Duisburg also concluded a 

cooperation agreement with the ports of 

Gelsenkirchen and Essen. The joint credo 

of the port and logistics locations: together

for the Ruhr region. The aim is to develop 

the Ruhr conurbation into the leading 

logistics location in Europe. 

Shuttle provides significant relief for the 

roads 

The Good Luck Express (despite its traditional 

name, which is derived from a miners’ 

greeting) fits into this future orientated 

picture. After all, it links Duisburg – via 

Dortmund – even more closely with the 

German seaports. “With this joint shuttle 

we are expanding the network in the Ruhr 

region. This includes connecting the Port 

of Dortmund to the ZARA ports (Zeebrügge, 

Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam 

– Ed.) via Duisburg and also to the 

Europe-wide CT network,” explained 

Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of 

Duisburger Hafen AG. Not least the roads 

between the two large Ruhr cities will also 

be relieved – by around 16,000 TEU or 

trucks per year initially. 

Chemical products to the German 

seaports 

“Our main customers at the moment are 

around 20 companies in the Chemiepark 

Marl that transport chemical products 

using the rail shuttle to the German seaports 

via Duisburg and Dortmund,” 

reported Volker Schmitz, authorized 

officer at duisport agency GmbH. But 

building materials are also transported 

from Dortmund to Antwerp now. The 

Good Luck Express NETWORKING duisport magazine June 2009 23 

The Dortmund railway company has taken over the traction for the “Good Luck Express”. 

Dortmund railway company is responsible 

for traction for the trains; duisport agency 

acts as the operator. The endpoint of the 

shuttle in the east is the Container Terminal 

Dortmund, which recently began operations 

with its third gantry crane and thus 

now has a capacity of 180,000 TEU. In 

Duisburg the shuttle reaches all the container 

terminals in the city. 


www.dortmunder-hafen.de

24 duisport magazine June 2009 PORTRAIT RMS shipping company 

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A Duisburg sea and river shipment logistics provider has advanced to the international top table in its niche: Rhein-, Maas- und 

See-Schifffahrtskontor GmbH. The foundations for its success were laid in short-sea traffic to and from Great Britain. 

(MW) From the roof of the company HQ 

at Krausstraße 1a in Duisburg-Ruhrort 

Claus-Peter Brinner and Thomas Maaßen 

have an enviably beautiful view of the 

Rhine towards Homberg. “It allows you to 

work well here,” explain the two Managing 

Directors of Rhein-, Maas- und See- 

Schifffahrtskontor GmbH (RMS) in unison 

during discussions with the duisport Magazine. 

For them work means running a 

company that – founded in 1948 – has 

slowly but surely grown in its niche. 

Present throughout Europe 

Today 72 people are employed at RMS 

Duisburg generating sales of around 

95 million Euros per annum from trans- 

No load is too heavy or too bulky … 

photo: Köppen 

photos: RMS

port quantities of about 3.7 million tonnes. 

Added to this are the contributions of the 

national und international subsidiaries and 

associated companies in Duisburg, Bre- 

men, Hamburg, Lübeck, Copenhagen/ 

Denmark, Karlshamn/Sweden and Varna/ 

Bulgaria. The RMS Group has been united 

for two years under the umbrella of Rhenus 

AG. “The RMS product portfolio supplements 

the Rhenus AG logistics range 

perfectly,” said Thomas Maaßen, justifying 

the 100 per cent takeover of RMS by 

Rhenus. 

Through this RMS is more than ever one 

of the main players in Europe in non-containerized 

transport in the area of sea and 

river shipments. In doing so all well 

known industrial sectors are served with 

transport services according to Claus-Peter 

Brinner. By now 78 sea and river going 

vessels are operated, of which 15 are 

owned by the Group. The steel industry 

forms the main focus, accounting for 

about 30 per cent of annual transport volumes, 

followed by non-ferrous metals, 

such as aluminum. Additional cargo 

comes from the wood and cellulose industry 

and from the minerals sector. 

Founding fathers of the “Island 

contacts” 

If just about all European short sea destinations 

are served today, RMS was once 

… no route too far … 

one of the founding fathers of the Duisburg 

“Island Contacts”. “More than 

40 years ago we were already sending the 

first vessels across the English Channel 

towards the British Isles,” remembers 

… or too difficult … (the Troll-Hättan lock in Sweden between Gothenburg and Karlstad) 

RMS shipping company 

PORTRAIT 

Claus-Peter Brinner. Since then RMS vessels 

cast off daily in Duisburg (and weekly 

in Hamburg, the Weser ports, Rotterdam 

and Antwerp) towards Great Britain and 

thus create traffic between continental 

inland waterways and sea ports to all the 

ports in Great Britain and Ireland. 

From Scandinavia to the Black Sea 

But the current product range offered does 

not end there by a long way. In the “International 

Shipping” sector, for example, the 

Duisburg company carries out transports 

of all types of loads to and from Spain, Portugal 

and all the Mediterranean ports. 

RMS vessels also fairly regularly serve 

ports in Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea 

area. The range is rounded off by a worldwide 

chartering business. Further connections 

are maintained by RMS Eurolog (Baltic) 

towards Scandinavia and the Baltic 

states (European coastal countries as well 

as Rhine and canal destinations) and in 

this way make direct sea and river ship- 


26 duisport magazine June 2009 PORTRAIT RMS shipping company 

ments to all navigable inland destinations. 

These also include regular traffic from the 

Saimaa Lake and also the operation of icebreaking 

tonnage in winter. 

Special services included 

Among the special services is door to door 

traffic with goods distribution. In the 

wood freighting sector RMS transports 

lumber, logs, wood chips and cellulose in 

the North Sea, Baltic Sea (including the 

Saimaa Lake), Irish Sea and the Bay of Biscay 

up to Mediterranean. Here too direct 

sea and river shipments are offered to all 

navigable coastal and inland waterway 

destinations. RMS offers regular loading 

from Baltic and North Sea ports to France 

and back. Company-owned vessels intermittently 

come into use for transporting 

tubes. For this purpose tubes of all diameters 

and every length are carried between 

the continent, the British Isles, the Iberian 

The company headquarters in the Ruhrort part of the Port of Duisburg 

… no barrier too large (the RMS Saimaa can master the frozen Russian-Finnish Saimaa canal under its 

own steam). 

peninsula and into the Mediterranean. In 

addition, the Duisburg logistics company 

operates dangerous goods vessels that are 

equipped to transport many types of dangerous 

goods in accordance with IMO regulations. 

Most modern load scheduling 

Building on many years’ experience in the 

transport business and based on the customers’ 

wishes RMS uses software and 

hardware systems for load and schedule 

processing whose data can be incorporated 

into just about every other data 

processing system via an EDI interface. 

With permanent system checks and with 

future development levels, RMS ensures 

compliance with and further development 

of its quality standards, which are continually 

monitored and further developed 

within the context of quality management 

(in accordance with DIN EN ISO 

9001:2000).

(br) It was possible to increase the earnings 

before interest, tax and depreciation 

(EBITDA) by 10 per cent to 25.2 m Euros 

(2007: 22.9 m Euros). The result before 

tax on earnings was raised to 8.7 m Euros 

(2007: 7.4 m Euros). “Despite the increasingly 

difficult economic environment, 

especially in the second half of 2008, we 

have succeeded in not only maintaining 

the outstanding result of the previous year 

but in building on it too,” said Erich 

Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger 

Hafen AG, with satisfaction at the 

2008 financial year 

press conference for the annual financial 

statement at the beginning of April 2009 

in Duisburg. 

In the 2008 financial year the duisport 

Group achieved consolidated sales of 

129.3 m Euros (2007: 121.9 m Euros). 

The sales growth came from gains in all 

business segments. In the business segment 

Infra and Superstructure, as well as 

Transhipment and Logistics Services, the 

group once again booked gains with sales 

of 64.9 m Euros (2007: 61.9 m Euros, 

THE PORT 

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The duisport executive board members at the annual press conference (from the left): Thomas Schlipköther, Erich Staake and Markus Bangen 

With consolidated sales, including sales from strategic holdings of 139.2 m Euros in total, the duisport-Group was able to 

exceed the record result of 128.4 m Euros from the previous year (plus 8 per cent). 

plus 5 per cent). In the Packing Logistics 

segment, which has been an important 

profit driver of the duisport Group since 

the acquisition of the VTS Group in 2007, 

sales could be increased by 6 per cent to 

58.3 m Euros (2007: 55.0 m Euros). 

Investment program will con tinue 

The duisport Group also invested 45.8 m 

Euros in developing the infra und superstructure. 

The main focus was on further 

developing the port and rail infrastructure, 

especially the D3T-Terminal in logport I, as 


28 duisport magazine June 2009 THE PORT 2008 financial year 

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Despite a difficult economic environment, especially in the fourth quarter, container handling was increased to 1 million TEU. 

“The efficiency and attractiveness of the Port of Duisburg has contributed to this pleasing growth once again. Our growth 

rates in comparison with European sea and inland waterway ports have been at top levels for years,” according to Erich 

Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG. 

(duisport) The double digit growth in 

combined transport could almost fully 

compensate for declines in the coal and 

steel segments. In grand total the Port of 

Duisburg Group reached the level of the 

previous year at 54.5 million tonnes 

well as the Gateway West-Terminal in logport 

II. Through the new Eastern 

Approaches the logport site is now directly 

connected to the transport network on the 

right bank of the Rhine. The duisport 

Group is maintaining its planned investment 

measures, even in the current difficult 

economic environment, and is investing up 

to 140 m Euros in the upcoming years. 

(previous year 55.1 million tonnes). The 

increases in growth were, however, eaten 

up by the collapse in the fourth quarter. 

“The very difficult economic situation will 

lead to declines in cargo handling in 

2009,” according to Erich Staake. 

Successful large project at VTS 

The VTS Group, a subsidiary of the duisport-Group 

since the start of 2007, also 

completed numerous large projects in the 

2008 financial year. Here it worked 

together with all large, internationally orientated 

mechanical engineering and plant 

constructors. Thus projects included taking 

over the complete packing logistics to 

Rail handling gains again 

Revenue relevant ship and rail handling in 

the duisport Group’s ports nearly reached 

the level of the previous year at 28.3 

tonnes (2007: 28.6 million tonnes). In 

doing so ship handling at 15.4 million 

dispatch a fertilizer plant to Egypt. Other 

destinations included China and Italy for 

components for energy facilities. To bundle 

and expand capacities new measures 

included setting up a new multi-purpose 

hall and a packing hall on the former 

Nordhafen site. The first sections of the 

project begun last year will be completed 

in 2009.

tonnes was 3 per cent below the previous 

year’s level. In contrast rail handling was 

able to gain once more: cargo output here 

reached 12.9 million tonnes, equivalent to 

a plus of 3 per cent. 

56 per cent of ship and rail handling was 

accounted for by general cargo in 2008. 

15 million tonnes or 3 per cent more than 

in the previous year was moved in this 

segment. The iron and steel group of cargo 

showed declines here while container 

handling amounted to more than 1 million 

TEU for the first time and was thus 12 per 

cent above the previous year. 

In the bulk cargo segment declines of 

8 per cent in coal handling had to be 

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Chemical products and mineral oil gained by more than 8 per cent in the 2008 financial year. 

2008 million 2007 million Change 

tonnes tonnes in % 

Coal 6.2 6.8 – 8 

Mineral oils/chemicals 4.6 4.2 + 8 

Building materials 1.0 1.3 – 23 

Scrap/other goods 1.5 1.6 – 6 

Total bulk cargo 13.3 13.9 – 4 

Iron/Steel/NF metals 5.2 5.8 – 10 

Containers/CT/RoRo 9.8 8.9 + 10 

Containers in K TEU 1,006 901 + 12 

Total general cargo 15.0 14.7 + 3 

Ship transport 15.4 16.0 – 3 

Rail transport 12.9 12.6 + 3 

Total ship/rail transport 28.3 28.6 – 1 

Truck transport 26.2 26.5 – 1 

Grand total 54.1 55.1 – 1 

Dynamism throughout the port and 

beyond 

Apart from a few plots the real estate on 

the logport site has now been almost completely 

marketed. More than 60 per cent 

is already in operation. Further extensions 

and new re-locations were also added last 

year, just as in the part of the port on the 

right bank of the Rhine. Staake also went 

2008 financial year 

into detail about future projects, such as 

logport ruhr (see dM December 2008) 

and the associated “Good Luck Express” 

(see page 22) in his explanations. 

Due to the current worldwide financial 

and economic crisis declining figures for 

sales and results are expected in the 2009 

financial year and also for 2010. 

THE PORT 

accepted while chemical products/mineral 

oils gained by more then 8 per cent. 

22 per cent more TEU by rail 

The most important cargo group in ship 

and rail handling in 2008 was once 

again the container: 9.6 million tonnes 

was equivalent to a plus of 11 per cent 

and over 2 million container handlings. 

While inland waterway and short sea 

handling declined slightly the TEU 

handling by rail could be increased by 

22 per cent. 25 rail service providers 

serve over 80 destinations in Europe via 

Duisburg amounting to 


30 duisport magazine June 2009 SERVICES duisport consult 

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Thomas Schlipköther and the duisport employees Erika Meszaros (left) and Bettina Wallenhorst optimize a planned new logistics building. 

The idea is as simple as it is convincing. “We have been successfully managing a port here in Duisburg for years. Why shouldn’t we pass on and market our 

knowledge?” Thomas Schlipköther, COO of Duisburger Hafen AG, answered this rhetorical question straightaway himself: “With duisport consult we are positioning 

ourselves as our own company and are offering logistics providers and port operators professional consultancy services to solve their problems.” 

(hk) Thomas Schlipköther and Alexander 

Fuchs are the Managing Directors of the 

latest Port subsidiary. The new company is 

a spin off from the existing company dfl 

duisport facility logistics and draws on its 

expertise as well as know how from the 

Technical Department of Duisburger 

Hafen AG. Erich, Staake, Chief Executive 

Officer of the port group: “This con- 

sultancy company meaningfully supplements 

our portfolio of services. Here we 

are bundling our decades of experience 

and expert knowledge in the interests of 

our customers.” 

A new brand on the market 

duisport consult is thus taking up a tried 

and tested approach and developing it further 

into a self contained range. The Port 

gave support to logistics providers and port 

operators in developing new ideas and 

implementing plans for infra and superstructure 

via dfl more or less as a sideline. 

“Now duisport consult can establish itself 

photo: vK 

as a name and a brand. For this purpose 

we offer exclusively a consultancy service. 

Our special advantage is that with knowledge 

of all the procedures in a port we are 

able to offer a holistic concept.” duisport 

consult analyses processes and attempts to 

optimize them, according to Thomas 

Schlipköther, who holds the lectureship 

for port management and logistics at the 

shipping technology chair at the University 

of Duisburg / Essen. As a consultant for 

business, procedures and their structural

pre-conditions have to be planned sustainably. 

Anyone saving money short term 

when setting up a handling hall would 

sometimes pay twice and three times as 

much in the following years. 

The new management can report that 

experience and ability are hugely valuable 

from their own practice. “Of course there 

are lots of people who understand something 

about railway logistics but which 

consultant also operates their own railway 

company with accompanying rail infrastructure 

and knows about all the pitfalls 

hidden in the details?” Here a few welltargeted 

questions sometimes help to map 

out a new course. How long is a block 

train actually? 750 meters or more like 

only 400 meters? This question has frequently 

been discussed with port operators. 

Because in reality it does not depend 

on the length but the weight of the load to 

be carried. This clarification helped to 

decide how long the platform in the new 

terminal or marshaling yard had to be. 

Valuable planning expertise 

You can check a lot in the internet but you 

have to know some things specifically in 

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individual cases. A practical example: how 

big is the so-called vehicle path of a special 

low loader? The radius was incorrectly calculated 

for a company locating in the port 

in the original plans. “If you had implemented 

the plans it could possibly have 

meant that the trucks could not have got 

out of the yard again after loading. Here 

the first drafts quickly became scrap paper. 

For instance when the external planner 

incorrectly calculated the staff rooms, if 

the rail connection was “forgotten” during 

planning or the handling turned out to be 

very unhandy. Thomas Schlipköther adds, 

“We can involve our expertise here and in 

doing so also give very special pointers. 

For example, if there are any questions 

about insurance or fire prevention.” 

Not only helpful in Duisburg 

The Duisburg experts reviewed the 

plans for relocating a handling hall for a 

company in the Port of Hamburg. It 

quickly emerged that taking over the old 

procedures would not add up. Even at the 

original location the profits were in no 

way pleasing. However, after the move the 

costs per square meter would have been 

even higher. When the figures were pre- 

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pared everyone could see that it simply 

could not work this way. The Duisburg 

consultants are not only active in Hamburg 

but also for the Saxon ports in Dresden. 

duisport consult helps clients to avoid 

such expensive mistakes. For this purpose 

the employees think beyond national borders. 

In South Eastern Europe a national 

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32 duisport magazine June 2009 LOGPORT Automobile logistics 

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There was no talk of crisis or short time work at the beginning of the year at the BLG AutoTerminal Duisburg GmbH & Co. KG. 

The RoRo ramp in the Rotterdamer Straße kept on rolling. In March alone the logistics firm handled 15,000 new vehicles. Two 

and a half times the planned figure. 

(hk) In April another 10,000 cars passed 

through the interface between the rails or 

the ship to the road – on the direct route. 

The scrappage scheme has ensured a high 

tempo in the new car market and thus 

also increased the traffic volumes on the 

177,000sq.m BLG site in logport. 

Barely off the production line at the manufacturer, 

the vehicles come to Duisburg- 

Rheinhausen, from where exactly timed 

handling to the dealer is carried out. By 

the third quarter of 2009 Martin Debus, 

Managing Director of the BLG AutoTerminal 

Duisburg, expects an increased tact 

time on the company’s premises. Then the 

hype surrounding the scrappage scheme 

will probably subside to normality and 

usual trade handling levels. Nevertheless 

2009 promises to be a record year. 

57,000 vehicles were handled in 2008. 

By December 2009 it will probably be 

85,000. 

Additional staff required 

History was written in March and April 

of this year above all. “In spring of this 

year about 680 small and mid-class models 

arrived daily here at the terminal,” 

reported Debus. Instead of 100 cars, 

250 cars drove into the car wash plant 

daily. Models from Skoda, Renault, Opel, 

Fiat and Peugeot, but also commercial 

vehicles from Asia. In the meantime the 

terminal looked like a gigantic car show. 

While others were talking about crisis, in 

the Rotterdamer Straße they were enjoying 

the boom. While others were registering 

short time work BLG has since 

employed 30 temporary workers. At the 

end of the winter a block train was rolling 

almost daily from the European car plants 

into the terminal, on some days there 

were even two. 230 cars drove there from 

the wagons to the parking lot. Twice a day

a ship from the western ports came alongside 

the quay with its wheeled cargo. 

Trucks delivered the cars from German 

production. 

The cars make an interim stop between 

production and delivery to the dealers in 

the logistically optimized parking lots with 

over 7,200 spaces. Then they carry on to 

the car dealerships. But the company is 

much more than a big marshaling yard, 

more than a conduit for vehicle logistics, 

channeling them on the way between the 

plant and the dealer. Because Martins 

Debus’s team also takes over the finishing 

for the car builders. 

Parking lot or workshop? 

This includes washing off the protective 

plastic or wax layer, sometimes putting in 

the foot mats or assembling electronic 

components. Some traders even have 

additional equipment built in here. In 

Rheinhausen series production vehicles 

become special editions. For Debus it is 

precisely these extra services that are particularly 

interesting. To the question of 

whether his company is more a parking lot 

or a big workshop he gives a businesslike 

answer. “Of course we are pleased when 

the handling is humming along. In terms 

of the balance sheet it is the additional 

services above all that are particularly 

interesting.” 

And there he has a special affection for the 

so-called “nearly new” cars. BLG brings 

one year old Renaults, for example, which 

have been taken out of car hire company 

fleets, to a seven star high gloss. From the 

technology to working on the brakes or 

carrying out an oil change that may be 

necessary, things move on to the smart 

repair: skilled hands belonging to specialists 

press dings out of the bodywork with 

special tools, they knock dents out of the 

metal. Marks on the seats vanish and 

become unrecognizable; the staff even 

knows how to refurbish holes in the cushions. 

Only really well trained eyes can see 

the difference between the original and 

the repair. This also applies to the paintwork. 

They mix the colors themselves, 

including the effects of ageing, because 

new paint shines in a different way to 

paint that has already spent months in the 

sun. 

Beauty farm for nearly new cars 

Independent experts determine exactly 

what has to be done during the intake 

control and really discover every defect 

with their trained eyes. Their reports are 

translated into a work and costs plan. On 

this basis it is decided whether to commission 

the work. Until the seven stars that 

the company guarantees for its one year 

old vehicles really shine, work usually 

worth 500 Euros has to be carried out. 

The bright hall seems like an extensive 

beauty farm for cars. Up to the car wash at 

the end that is operated by a sub-contrac- 

Automobile logistics LOGPORT duisport magazine June 2009 33 

Up to 680 cars a day arrived in the BLG AutoTerminal in spring. 

tor’s employees. Only a glance at the 

milometer allows a differentiation to be 

made between a completely new car and 

a so-called nearly new car. 

This comprehensive service is part of daily 

business and rolls in the same precise tact 

as the new car handling operation. The 

hectic activity that prevailed in spring 

outside in the terminal passed by the continual 

operations in the workshop. As the 

refurbished one year old cars ran off the 

line there not yet any talk about the scrappage 

scheme or crisis. 

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34 duisport magazine June 2009 

duisport – The Port 

With an annual cargo throughput of 

110 million tonnes, the Port of Duis burg 

(known under the tradename of duisport) 

on the confluence of the Ruhr and 

the Rhine is the world’s largest inland 

port. The trimodal (waterway, railroad 

and highway) logistics center is the hinterland 

hub of major sea ports and at the 

same time a gateway to central Europe. 

Apart from the transfer of cargo (mainly 

containerized cargo, imported coal, iron, 

steel, oil and chemical products), duisport 

provides a wide range of logistics services. 

Contacts 

Infrastructure 

Duisburger Hafen AG 

property development and marketing 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-1 · mail@duisport.de 

Logistic Services 

duisport agency GmbH 

transport chains, marketing, sales 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-417 · dpa@duisport.de 

dfl duisport facility logistics GmbH 

facility management, maintenance, 

warehouse services, port logistics 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-233 · dfl@duisport.de 

duisport consult GmbH 

port and logistics conzepts 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-210 · dpc@duisport.de 

SERVICE 

The Port 

duisport – The Business 

More than 250 logistics-oriented 

corporations are located in the Port of 

Duisburg. The Port has created approx. 

17,000 jobs in the city and 36,000 jobs 

in the region. 

Port-induced capital spending by companies 

with facilities in the Port total some 

250 million Euros each year. 

duisport – The Port Group 

Duisburger Hafen AG is the owner and 

the management company of the Port. 

Logport Logistic-Center Duisburg GmbH 

investor management 

Tel: +49 (0)2065-902-1180 

info@logport.de · www.logport.com 

duisport rail GmbH 

public railroad utility 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-202 · dpr@duisport.de 

VTS GmbH 

packaging logistics and transport solutions 

for the investment goods industry 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-20 · info@vts-logistik.de 

www.vts-logistik.de 

The duisport Group which comprises the 

subsidiaries of Duisburger Hafen AG 

provides a full range of infrastructure 

and investor support service packages 

for port and logistics operations. Port 

logistics services complementary to the 

activities offered by the Port’s customers 

are an additional asset. The duisport 

Group does not limit its role to the 

function of a partner of the logistics 

industry, but makes its own contribution 

to the optimization of transportation 

chains. 

logport ruhr GmbH 

logistics real estate in the Ruhr region 

Tel: +49 (0)2065-902-1179 

richard.schwarze@logport-ruhr.de 

www.logport-ruhr.de 

www.duisport.de 

The Web Portal 

The Web site of the Port of Duisburg 

provides news on the Port, offers 

information on logistics and transport, 

presents major port operators, 

the companies of the duisport Group 

and other contacts, shows routes to 

Duisburg and detailed port maps and 

lists shipping and railroad lines. 

You can also subscribe to a news service 

free of charge. 


Corporate Communication 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-270 · pr@duisport.de 

… for Shipping 

Port Authority and Shipping Authority 

Tel: +49 (0)203-803-240 

hs@duisport.de 

Ship Reporting Station 

Tel: +49 (0)203-479 76 36 

VHF channel 14 

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THE GATEWAY TO EUROPE. 

Our location benefits enable long-range 

services. 

duisport offers more than excellent transport connections to enhance the 

efficiency of your operations in continental Europe. Our services range 

from 1.5 million sq. m. of warehousing space to the unique opportunities 

provided by a future oriented logistic park with outstanding state-of-theart 

facilities, a perfect integration in transportation networks and plenty of 

space for developing your business. 

duisport has gained a reputation as a transportation and trading hub and 

developed into a hinterland port of strategic importance for the North Sea 

ports. 

We are ready for the future. duisport – We provide a European service. 

YOUR GATEWAY TO MORE INFORMATION: VISIT OUR WEBSITE. 

Tel. +49 (0) 203-80 31 

mail@duisport.com 

www.duisport.com

A magazine published by Duisburger Hafen AG June 2009 - Duisport

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