{"id":90144,"date":"2024-07-19T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=54633"},"modified":"2024-07-19T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:32:12","slug":"antwerp-enriched-with-two-new-international-rail-freight-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=90144","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp enriched with two new international rail freight services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Antwerp will be the starting point for two new international rail freight services. XPO Logistics is launching a new multimodal route from Antwerp to Istanbul, and Kombiverkehr will be operating a route to Madrid.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-54633\"><\/span>XPO Logistics\u2019 2600-kilometre route between Antwerp and Istanbul will involve both road and rail transportation. It will reduce the transit time from 10 to 8 days, according to the company. Besides the road-rail combination, XPO Logistics will also be offering a rail service between Duisburg and Trieste, from where goods can continue their journey to Turkish Izmir via shortsea shipping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur dedication to multimodal transport solutions has been highly successful, strengthening XPO\u00b4s position in the combined road, sea and rail transportation market. The implementation of multimodal solutions is a crucial step in enhancing the efficiency of our customers\u2019 goods movement while also reducing their supply chain carbon footprint to help them meet sustainability objectives\u201d, a representative of XPO Logistics commented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Antwerp &#8211; Madrid route<\/h2>\n<p>We are confident that the new corridor between Belgium and Turkey will result in environmental efficiencies, enhanced safety, and reduced transit times for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Kombiverkehr is launching a new intermodal rail service between the Combinant terminal in the Port of Antwerp and the Abroginal terminal in Madrid. It plans to launch the service on 3 September. The company offers transportation services for containers, swap bodies, safe and dangerous goods, Kombiverkehr says. Trains will run twice a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwerp will be the starting point for two new international rail freight services. XPO Logistics is launching a new multimodal route from Antwerp to Istanbul,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11677,72,4216,68,4586,78,11678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antwerp","category-business","category-istanbul","category-kombiverkehr","category-madrid","category-rail-freight","category-xpo-logistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90145,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90144\/revisions\/90145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}