The Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has signed a long-term logistics services agreement with voestalpine, thus securing an order for the transport of 8.6 million tonnes of raw materials and finished products per year.
The existing agreement, which expired at the end of March, has been renewed and significantly expanded. The two companies agreed to a contract whereby RCG will transport raw materials to voestalpine’s sites in Linz and Leoben/Donawitz and carry outgoing transports of finished goods from the Linz plant. A three-year contract has been signed to cover the package of logistics services.
The relationship is set to extend beyond logistics. As such, RCG will continue to invest in the optimization of the transport system, including unloading. RCG will collaborate with voestalpine’s materials experts on wagon design and construction and on the development of new European industrial standards for the rail sector.
The voestalpine group will continue to draw on RCG’s skills and reliability. The new logistics agreement will see the rail logistics specialist shifting greater volumes for voestalpine Rohstoffbeschaffung GmbH and voestalpine’s logistics subsidiary Logistik Service GmbH (LogServ), some of which will involve modal shift from road to rail.
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