DHL opens China Rail Competence Center in Stuttgart

DHL Global Forwarding has opened a central China Rail Competence Center in Stuttgart to help with the coordination of freight transported between Germany and Asia by rail. “Rail freight volumes between Germany and Asia have increased 10-fold in just one year. In order to meet ever-increasing demand, the onus is on us to grow, optimize processes and create synergies. It is for this very reason that we decided to establish a central China Rail Competence Center,” said Volker Oesau, CEO DHL Global Forwarding Germany and Central Europe.

In a statement issued today (8 May), DHL said that staff at the Stuttgart Rail Competence Center will develop “appropriate multi-modal transport solutions and coordinating end-to-end transport processes, from collection, export and transit formalities, and the Euro-Asian rail service, right through to customs clearance in the land of arrival and delivery by truck or combined rail transport”.

DHL Global Forwarding current offers 15 rail connections between Germany and the Far East. The trains follow the course of the trans-Kazakh western corridor and the trans-Siberian northern corridor with a network of rail hubs in the major economic centres of China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.