A case study in shifting Asia–Europe volume from road to rail — without giving up transit time or reliability.
The client, an industrial components maker, moved 1,900 containers a year from the Adriatic ports to plants in southern Germany. Every one of them travelled by road.
What changed
We rebuilt the flow around a twice-weekly block train, keeping road haulage only for the first and last 90 kilometres. Measured over twelve months, emissions per container fell 58 per cent and door-to-door transit lengthened by less than four hours.
Cost fell too: rail absorbed the driver-shortage premium that had been pushing road rates up every quarter since 2024.
