The daughter company of the German concern Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) — Container Terminal Odessa (CTO) has received on 19 September the first container train to shuttle from now on by the route Odessa Port – Ternopil city – Odessa Port, as reported by the CTO’s Press Office.
“Being the initiator of container trains handling in Odessa Port, the terminal’s administration and its founder HHLA take their first successful steps towards creation of the European level intermodal services in Ukraine. The full complex of intermodal services embraces the path from a loading point at the terminal up to the final consignee as concerns imports, and from a loading point at consignor’s warehouse up to the port terminal as concerns exports”, pointed out the Press Office.
It is noted also that on top of the port and railway expenses the service includes as well international insurance of liability and handling at a railway terminal inside the country. Moreover, customers can enjoy such associated services as delivery within 30-250 km from a station up to the immediate addressee or sender, disbanding or stuffing of containers etc.
“Further on it is planned to invest in the railway terminals infrastructure inside the country in key points of production and consumption, as well as in the rolling stock, and in the future possibly in locomotive fleet. This is all our maternal company in Germany has at its disposal and what successfully works all around Europe. HHLA and CTO do a lot to develop the intermodal service in Ukraine”, underlined CTO DG Anastas Kokkin.
In the course of LLC Ukrainian Intermodal Company (UIC) starting activities aimed to launch intermodal services in Ukraine, on 30th July Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), HHLA International GmbH, DC CTO, and UIC signed Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation.
Managing Director of HHLA International GmbH Philip Sweens announced in late May the establishment of a multimodal operator to render railway services for container cargoes around Ukraine’s territory. For this purpose UIC had been incorporated in January 2020. As on today it is 100% owned by HHLA. However, by the latter’s plan, they are going to keep as little as 20-30% stock of shares while the rest 50-60% will be transferred to forwarders and sea lines, and the very rest to go to IPO.
HHLA is a major port and logistic company of Germany. it manages box terminals Altenwerder, Burchardkai and Tollerort in the port of Hamburg, the terminal CTO (Container Terminal Odessa) in Ukraine, and the terminal Transiidikeskuse in Tallinn, Estonia. The three German-based terminals embrace three quarters of the group’s overall box turnover. The group’s intermodal business is focused in the companies Metrans and Polzug. In 2019 the group enlarged the total container throughput by 3.3% compared to 2018 i.e. up to 7.577M TEU.
DC CTO operates Berths 2, 1к, 2к of Odessa Port. In 2019 the company increased its handling by 15.8% in comparison with 2018 — up to 391,400 TEU.
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