Container Terminal Salzburg

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Container Terminal Salzburg Ges.mbH
legal form GmbH
founding 2001
Seat Salzburg , Austria
management Otto Hawlicek GF, Gernot Dürnberger GF
Branch Forwarding terminal operation
Website www.ct-sbg.at

The Salzburg container terminal is a handling facility ( container terminal ) for combined cargo traffic (CT, rail-road) in the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim . It is located on the company premises of the wood processing company Kaindl , on the city- Salzburg border near the Klessheim motorway junction .

business

Traffic integration

View of the terminal from the south

In terms of transport, the Salzburg Terminal is located on the high-speed TEN  17 Paris - Bratislava highway . The transport connections of the multimodal container terminal are mainly of a maritime character and connect the regional users of combined cargo transport in the Salzburg-Berchtesgaden area to the European rail network and the large seaports. It also relieves the roads of goods transit over the Alps ( Rollende Landstrasse ) from north-central Europe to the Adriatic region, since Trieste has become one of the most important transshipment ports for Austria .

The terminal is located upstream of Salzburg's main train station in the rail network and is close to the German-Austrian border, making it the best location for cross-border transport without burdening the core city of Salzburg itself.

Ownership

The terminal is owned by Kaindl , a wood industry company based near Salzburg and operating worldwide .

Furnishing

The Salzburg terminal has a German and an Austrian train station number . Due to the existing C customs warehouse permit, the terminal areas are under special supervision by the Salzburg customs office. Major CT actors are represented by renting them directly at the CT location: Rail Cargo Austria , ÖBB Infrastructure Operations, BMF Customs Office Salzburg, Liefering branch , Intrastat Rathmann, Roland Spedition and DB Schenker .

Standard containers ( containers , swap bodies , semi-trailers ) are transferred to combined transport means (rail, truck) by means of floor conveyors ( forklifts ) and gantry cranes .

The terminal has an annual handling capacity of 300,000 movements. The area of ​​more than 100,000 m² offers space for 4,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) standard containers . Two portal cranes with a payload of 40 tons each are available. The first Austrian gantry crane was put into operation in 1982 to handle the loading units and, due to the increasing container volumes, a second crane was added in 1998. In 2003 the older crane was dismantled, shipped to Malaysia and replaced by a new one.

The terminal has a capacity of up to 1000 movements per day. Over 6,000 meters of track infrastructure , owned by the terminal and ÖBB Infrastruktur Betrieb, is available to the terminal operator as a directly cranable track or as a siding. The length of the five craneable tracks is 530 meters. As a general shunting company, ÖBB Infrastruktur Betrieb is responsible for the shunting services of the terminal with up to three diesel locomotives every day. The annual wagon volume is over 175,000 transport units, mainly German and Austrian container wagons of the type SGJS / SGNS / LGS ( flat wagons ) are used. The terminal is integrated into the traffic telematics of the Salzburg main station ( terminus for the delivery of intermodal trains). There are further parking options for groups of wagons at Freilassing station , (Germany) and at the Salzburg-Gnigl marshalling yard .

The Salzburg Terminal operates mainly in stand-by mode: Incoming cargo units from CT are usually dispatched directly to groups of wagons made available under a crane. In addition to the stand procedure, the swing entry for block trains is also carried out under crane in Salzburg . The drainage mountain offers an alternative mode of operation . From autumn 2013, the Salzburg terminal will have direct access via remote-controlled switch connection and integration into the DB and ÖBB interlocking systems.

history

In the 1930s , an extensive track system, a station building and various bunkers were built in Salzburg- Klessheim , between the Freilassing main station and the main station Salzburg. The station building was used as a representative station for Klessheim Palace during the Nazi era until 1945 . Until the end of the 1970s, the area was used as a building material store.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the Austrian forwarding company Franz Welz  GmbH founded a handling facility for combined transport on an area of ​​the Austrian Federal Railways . Through investments, the track systems and parking areas gradually came into the possession of the respective terminal operators. Welz was taken over by M. Kaindl Holzindustrie in the late 1990s. In 2001, Container Terminal Salzburg GmbH was founded to operate the terminal .

Between 2005 and 2008, around € 8 million was invested in the expansion of the Salzburg terminal. Essentially, track systems were extended and additional parking spaces for trains and containers were created. A warehouse complex was built to handle conventional cargoes. The railway operating license for the reconstruction of the terminal was granted in 2009.

Economic development

At the beginning of the 1980s, the first overseas shipments were made via the Salzburg terminal to the USA, Asia, but mainly to Israel. Today, traffic to Asia , the USA and the Middle East dominate.

The traffic volumes, which were originally concentrated in the southern port of Trieste , increasingly shifted to the European North Sea ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven in the early 1990s due to the collapse of the shipping association MED-CLUB (Mitsui, NYK, LLoyd Triestino) . At the end of the 1990s, a Westhafenverkehr Conliner developed connecting Salzburg with Rotterdam.

In addition to connections to the most important European seaports ( Hamburg , Bremerhaven , Rotterdam , Triest , Koper ), there are national night-time connections with Austrian terminals ( Vienna , Enns , Linz , Wels , Graz , Villach , Hall in Tirol , Wolfurt , Bludenz ). There are direct international connections with terminals in the Czech Republic (Metrans / Intrans), Slovakia and Hungary ( Budapest , Sopron ). A daily continental train was established between Vienna and Salzburg in 2008.

Significance of the Salzburg Terminal for the regional economy

View of the terminal from the platform of the Salzburg-Liefering S-Bahn station

The established block train connections to the seaports create direct transport connections to the most important European seaports. Almost all of the important international shipping companies use the Salzburg terminal as a depot for storing empty containers; this ensures the availability of containers for all important shipping areas in international sea traffic.

The catchment area of ​​the terminal includes the regions of West Austria (Salzburg, Tyrol , Vorarlberg ), South Austria ( Styria , Carinthia , East Tyrol ), Upper Austria and Bavaria , and via the Brenner Pass also South Tyrol .

Well-known are the Tauern lock (loading for cars is also possible directly in Böckstein in the Gastein Valley ) and the Felbertauern lock, as well as trips via the Brenner Pass . The offer is supplemented by piggyback transport , where truck combinations or articulated trucks with motor vehicles can be transported in special flat wagons. The drivers are on overnight shipments sleeping or couchette available, otherwise Großraumwagen of passenger transport . The Rollende Landstrasse  (RoLa / ÖKOMBI) is increasingly being transferred here from the Salzburg freight station in Schallmoos.

The freight customs office (Zollamt Salzburg Zollstelle Liefering / Bahn) has also recently been located here .

Major players in combined cargo traffic via the Salzburg hub

literature

  • Olaf Preuß: A box conquers the world . Murmann / 2007, ISBN 978-3-86774-031-9 .
  • Bernd Kortschak: CARGO NET - Abolish maneuvering. In: Glasers Annalen 131 conference proceedings SFT, Graz 2007.

Web links

Commons : Container Terminal Salzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Container Terminal Salzburg is expanded by 40 percent , June 16, 2006
  2. ↑ ÖKOMBI - The ROLA Experts , oekombi.at (also German);
    Intermodal logistics ( memento of July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , railcargo.at
  3. ↑ Customs office Salzburg Customs office Liefering / Bahn (ZA600400)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dienststellen.bmf.gv.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / dienststellen.bmf.gv.at  

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 3.6 ″  E