METROCARGO

Intermodal network 

Traditional Handling time :
10 – 12 hours per train

In traditional solutions terminals are off-line.
Trains must be shunted away from the electrified track using diesel locomotives, pulled to a loading yard, loaded, and brought back to the regular track by diesel traction. This operation usually takes           10–12 hours, with significant shunting costs (up to 70/100 euro per unit)

Metrocargo Handling time:

30 minutes per train

With Metrocargo the loading unloading activity takes about 30 minutes. The trains remain under the electrical track. Automatic handling permits the safety movements of containers.

Investments

•  A single terminal requires: 5 to 15  M€ according to size
• Terminals have a modular structure and a gradual expanding, parallel to the flow increases, is possible.
• Terminals can be located in dismissed railroad areas .
• All types of existing railway cars and load units can be used.

Port-Dry Port connection

Port requirements

• high speed translation of load units
• greater use of the railroad
•  cost reduction for handling and shunting
• reduced loading time

City Logistics

The innovative concept permits:

•  to pickup goods outside the city and set up them into swap bodies
•  to use railroads to enter directly inside the center of the cities
•  to load swap bodies, without cargo breach, directly on the vehicles
•  to delivery goods inside the cities with low pollution impact and traffic
•  to transport outside the cities goods and garbage

Advantages of metrocargo city

• General economic saving
• Removal of trucks entering the city
• Optimised distributive paths starting inside the delivery area
•  Load discountinuity is avoided the with a public/private Transit Point
• Pollution and traffic congestion reduction

 --> Low management costs!

Short Sea Shipping