Metrans

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METRANS as
legal form as
founding 1991
Seat Prague , Czech RepublicCzech RepublicCzech Republic 
management Peter Kiss
Number of employees 1121
sales 297.3 million euros
Branch logistics
Website www.metrans.eu
Status: 2014

Metrans class 186 electric locomotive
Container terminal Praha-Uhříněves

Metrans is a Czech rail transport company (EVU) for goods transport that is wholly owned by the Hamburg-based HHLA .

The subsidiary METRANS Rail sro connects the seaports Rotterdam , Hamburg and Bremerhaven , Koper in intermodal traffic with the hinterland (southern Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria). The company's home station is the Uhříněves container terminal in the Czech Republic. Further terminals of its own are located in Lípa nad Dřevnicí near Zlín , Nýřany near Pilsen , Šenov near Ostrava and Česká Třebová (all in the Czech Republic), Dunajská Streda and Košice (Slovakia) and in Krems an der Donau (Austria).

Another terminal was built in Budapest in 2015 and has been in operation since January 2017.

At the end of 2018, close cooperation was agreed with the Russian rail logistics company Transcontainer , in which the Russian state railway RZD holds a 50% stake. Transcontainer has 24,000 wagons and 67,000  containers .

Rolling stock

Metrans owns 43 series 186 (Bombardier TRAXX) and 9 189 ( Siemens Eurosprinter ) electric locomotives , 9  Siemens Eurorunner diesel locomotives and 12  shunting locomotives . Metrans also owns 2500 freight cars .

From autumn 2019 to spring 2020, ten Vectron MS electric locomotives will be delivered to Metrans by Siemens Mobility from the Munich-Allach plant. These multi-system locomotives with the class number 383 are approved for use in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Subsequent upgrades also allow possible use in the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register on justice.cz, business identification number (IČ) 40763811, METRANS, as
  2. ↑ Father of Metrans , hhla.de, April 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Contacts HHLA
  4. ↑ a b c Jiří Samek: Metrans lecture ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) p. 24 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bhv-bremen.de
  5. ↑ HHLA Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG: Jiri Samek - father of METRANS. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Terminal Operations
  7. ↑ http://www.metrans.eu/terminal-operations/rail-hub-terminal-budapest-hu/
  8. ^ André Germann: Hamburg looks to the east. HHLA subsidiary Metrans decides to work more closely with Russian Transcontainer. In: Daily port report of November 5, 2018, p. 3
  9. ↑ Expansion of railway activities . In: railway magazine . No. 6 , 2016, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 20 .
  10. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Metrans starts series production with new locomotives · First of ten Vectron MS machines taken over . In: Daily port report of November 13, 2019, p. 3