Central German railway
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | October 1, 1998 |
| Seat | Schkopau , Germany |
| management | Michael Koch, Jürgen Sonntag |
| Number of employees | 330 (October 2019) |
| sales | EUR 62.3 million (2018) |
| Branch | Logistics company |
| Website | www.meg-bahn.de |
The Central German Railroad, Inc. ( MEG ), based in Schkopau is a railway company with the shareholders DB Cargo AG and VTG Rail Logistics GmbH. The main focus of activity is, among other things, the rail freight transport between the central German economic region, the German seaports and Bavaria as well as the operation of connecting railways .
background
The company emerged from the spun off former industrial railways of the chemical works Böhlen and Schkopau of the Dow Olefinverbundes , which existed since 1936 as works railways of the Buna-Werke . MEG started operations on October 1st, 1998 and is mostly a subsidiary of DB Cargo AG . The Hamburg-based VTG Rail Logistics GmbH (formerly Transpetrol GmbH) holds 20 percent of the shares. Since spring 2010 MEG has been run as a production company of DB Cargo Region Central.
Locations and business areas
The company is active in shunting services at the Schkopau, Böhlen and Rüdersdorf industrial railway locations as well as in the Rostock seaport and in Regensburg Bavaria harbor and, in addition to the shunting business and rail logistical activities at the industrial railway locations, performs nationwide services as an EVU. The main focus of the EVU activities are the coal supply of the Uniper power plant in Schkopau, the cement traffic from Rüdersdorf and Schönebeck to Rostock and Regensburg, as well as chemical, automobile, intermodal and project traffic.
- Schkopau: The company's administration is located at this location. MEG also operates an extensive connecting railway there for Dow Olefinverbund GmbH, as well as other secondary connections, so u. a. for the KTSK container terminal and the COTAC freight car cleaning system. The DB / VPI-certified workshop for freight wagons is located here in Schkopau.
- Böhlen: At this location, too, the company operates the connecting railway for the Dow Olefinverbund with other ancillary connections.
- Rüdersdorf: MEG is the operator of the connecting railway of CEMEX Zement GmbH.
- Rostock: MEG drives freight trains to the Rostock seaport for CEMEX Logistik GmbH and Schwenk Zement KG , for which it is also responsible for handling and shunting.
vehicles
The company operates more than 60 own or leased locomotives of the 143 , 155 , 156 , 145 , 204 , 218 , 232 , 298 , 346 , G 1206, Alstom hybrid locomotives and Class 77 locomotives for mainline transport and shunting services Some of the discarded old vehicles are on loan from various railway associations.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Barteld: From the works railway to the freight railway operating across Germany. The Central German Railway is increasingly offering complex logistics solutions. In: GÜTERBAHNEN, edition 2/2004, p. 45
- Dietmar Römer: Heavy "gift". In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of September 26, 2003
- Deutsche Bahn: 20 years of Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH. Press release from September 21, 2018
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ contact person. In: meg-bahn.de. Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH, accessed on September 29, 2018 . .
- ↑ Our locations. In: meg-bahn.de. Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH, accessed on December 4, 2013 .
- ↑ MEG locomotive inventory. In: meg-bahn.de. Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH, accessed on December 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Frank Barteld: Hybrids from Stendal. In: eisenbahn-magazin 8/2012, p. 24f