TX LOGISTIK'S TRIANGULAR TRAFFIC

IN order to shift more goods to rail, TX Logistik has successfully launched an international triangular service for intermodal transports in mid-March. The offer of the rail logistics company, which is part of Mercitalia Logistics (Gruppo FS Italiane), connects Romania, Austria, Italy and Germany with one train per week. It was designed for two large Romanian forwarding companies and an Italian carrier.

Compared to normal round trips with outward and backward connections between two destinations, the triangular concept created by TX Logistik connects the terminals in Curtici, Romania and Hall in Tirol, Austria; Verona, Italy; and Duisburg, Germany with one-way relations. Users can thus be able to bypass imbalances in the flow of goods. While all regions have high cargo volumes, there are not always necessarily sufficient volumes to load trains for a round trip with appropriate backloads.

The start and end point of the triangular connection is the Arad Railport in Curtici. From there, the train, which is