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RCG MOVES 60,000 TONNES ACROSS THE ARLBERG
Since April 2021, 20 wagons loaded with tubbings for a highway tunnel have been rolling from Tirol to Switzerland once a week. The total volume of the pioneering end-to-end transport is 60,000 tonnes.
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is the leading rail logistics specialist in Europa and offers efficient, multimodal end-to-end logistics solutions as far as Asia. One example is a truly mammoth project which RCG is successfully implementing on behalf of the company Katzenberger. Specifically, RCG is transporting tubbings, which are prefabricated concrete segments (outer shells) used as reinforcement in tunnel construction.
The segments are intended for rehabilitating the Kerenzerberg road tunnel Filzbach in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. The highway section of the A3 has aged and needs to be repaired. Preparations began in spring 2020 - on 7th April 2021 the first tubbings were loaded in Jenbach to be transported to Weesen, Switzerland.
The transports are to be completed by early 2023. A train with 20 loaded wagons now leaves Jenbach station in Tirol for Switzerland once a week. The traffic-plagued Tyrolean population also benefits – an order volume of around 60,000 tonnes, transported into Switzerland by sustainable and environmentally-friendly trains, means around 4100 fewer lorry journeys (including empty trips) clogging up the roads.
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