Rail shuttle Antwerp-Linz takes timber traffic from Brake to Antwerp

The rail shuttle of Rail Cargo Logistics and Antwerp-based Rail&Sea started in May last year. The intermodal forwarder Rail&Sea was able to convince Austrian timber importers to organise imports via the port of Antwerp instead of the German port of Brake. “This involved a major Austrian importer, Leimüller, which had never heard of the port of Antwerp and had been importing timber via other ports such as Brake and Hamburg for years,” says Edwin Moehlig, managing director of Rail&Sea Antwerp. “We started reviewing the entire supply chain and by offering a full chain from loaded ocean vessel to delivered by wagon to the Austrian consignee, we were able to convince the customer to organise the import via Antwerp.”