Rail freight traffic in Eastern Europe has great potential. DB Schenker Rail has been doing business here for several years now. Region East is intended to speed up the process of establishing DB Schenker Rail as the leading service provider in this region.

With DB Schenker Rail Polska, DB Schenker is now further expanding its position in Central and Eastern Europe, and its network. DB Schenker Rail Polska, to which DB Schenker Rail Zabrze S.A. also belongs, presently employs around 6,000 staff. DB Schenker Rail Polska operates mainly in Silesia, runs high-volume services to all Polish economic centres, and specializes in the shipment of coal, chemical products and construction materials, in addition to the overall operation of rail connections for coal mining groups and power plants in Poland. The company additionally operates port facilities and container terminals in Szczecin and Świnoujście.

South-East Europe– a growth market

With the founding of DB Schenker Rail Bulgaria at the beginning of 2010, DB Schenker Rail has begun to further expand its network in South-Eastern Europe. The company holds a traction license and, as a consequence, can carry out industrial switching services as well as rail shipments in Bulgaria on its own initiative. The company, which was founded in 2002 as a subsidiary of Logistic Services Danubius SRL, currently employs around 150 staff and has its own fleet of electric and diesel powered switching and  main line locomotives.

DB Schenker Rail has been represented since the year 2000 by its subsidiary Logistic Services Danubius SRL in the South-East European growth region. The company offers logistics services, as well as switching services and rail shipping, in Romania and Bulgaria. The company employs round 230 staff in a number of locations and owns a fleet of more than 30 locomotives.

The South-East European region offers substantial potential for cross-border traffics. One example of these is the traffic between the Hungarian car plant in Györ and the German manufacturing location of Ingolstadt. Three train pairs run daily over the 650 kilometre long route.

Made-to-measure logistics solutions for customers in Eastern Europe

An example of transportation and logistics services which are designed to meet specific customer requirements are those for the Volkswagen shipments to Kaluga. Together with the company’s Russian partners, the first genuine rail-based logistics chain has now been set up between Western Europe and Russia. The VW assembly plant in Kaluga is supplied with components from five European countries on a "just-in-time" basis, despite a change of track gauge and customs clearance procedures at borders. Similar solutions, albeit meeting the specific requirements to a lesser extent, are offered to other customers from the automotive and chemical industries, and for shipments for the mechanical engineering and agricultural industries. Together with our Russian partners, we can offer transportation solutions on a variety of routes, be it via the Sassnitz–Baltijsk–Ust-Luga train ferry service or via different land corridors.