First Trailer Train from Curtici at TrailerPort Alberthafen Dresden

The Saxon State Secretary for Digitalization and Mobility, Ines Fröhlich, today welcomed the first trailer train from Curtici (RO) at the TrailerPort Alberthafen Dresden. Since the beginning of the year, the Saxon Inland Ports Oberelbe GmbH (SBO) has been loading semi-trailers (trailers) onto the rail to Rostock and further towards Scandinavia daily at the TrailerPort Alberthafen Dresden.

(Dresden) The service at the Dresden Alberthafen is now being expanded to include the route Dresden-Curtici. The operator of the trailer trains is the Austrian-based LKW Walter Internationale Transportorganisation AG. State Secretary Ines Fröhlich stated: “Getting more freight traffic off the road and onto the rail is an important building block for the transport and climate transition. It relieves the highways and is extremely climate-friendly in comparison. Therefore, I am very pleased with the commitment of the SBO together with LKW Walter to offer logistics companies here in the TrailerPort a financially successful alternative to road-based freight transport. The new connection now creates a link between the southern Scandinavian region and the Baltic States, connecting Europe once again.”

Nine Trailer Trains per Week

At the TrailerPort Alberthafen Dresden, a total of nine trailer trains are now being loaded per week: 7x Dresden-Rostock, 2x Dresden-Curtici. This directly connects the southern regions of Sweden and Denmark to Saxony, the Czech Republic, and Romania. “We are pleased that with the new connection Dresden-Curtici, the southeast of Europe also receives a direct train connection to the Baltic region via Saxony,” says SBO Managing Director Heiko Loroff. “At the same time, we can complement crossing east-west traffic with the southern European route from Dresden.”

Background

At the end of 2019, the SBO, as part of the EU project CorCap*, in which the Free State of Saxony and the SBO, along with their Czech subsidiary CSP, are project partners, contacted the company LKW Walter together with the project partner Rostock Ports. Together, the idea for a TrailerPort was developed, which was practically implemented in January 2021. In addition to utilizing existing infrastructure, the SBO invested approximately 500,000 euros from its own funds in the areas of IT, handling, space provision, and transshipment technology.*CorCap stands as a synonym for “Capitalising TEN-T corridors for regional development and logistics” and deals with improving transport connections in the Orient/East-Med corridor (OEM), which runs in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-V, among others, from the German sea and inland ports through the Czech and Slovak Republics to Hungary. The project started in April 2019 and is expected to be completed in 2022. The OEM corridor connects Central and Southeastern Europe. Due to the emerging bottlenecks in the section Dresden-Prague and the limited capacity along alternative TEN-V corridors operated via the Vienna node, urgent measures are needed to improve multimodal access to rail and inland shipping traffic.
Photo: © Saxon Inland Ports Oberelbe GmbH