For the sixteenth year in a row, Colgate-Palmolive will rely on Mercitalia Logistics to move their products via rail between Italy and Germany. Throughout the past 15 years, the service continuously grew, significantly contributing to the modal shift to rail.
Colgate-Palmolive has its biggest European manufacturing facility in Anzio, south of Rome. The goods are taken to the rail terminal in Pomezia, a few kilometres north of Anzio and moved by rail to Duisburg, in northwestern Germany. From there, the goods are then redistributed in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Six trains move the cargo every week. This service “represents the best example of our daily work”, said Mercitalia Logistics CEO Sabrina De Filippis. Putting Colgate-Palmolive products on the rail removes around 20,000 trucks from European roads every year. The Pomezia-Duisburg is a key route for the Mercitalia cluster, going from 2,000 shipments to 10,000 over the past 15 years.