Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert
| Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | St. Ingbert , Germany |
| management | Sasha Honnert, Ralf Dolibois, Michael Baier |
| Branch | Logistics freight transport |
| Website | www.rhenus.com |
The Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert GmbH is a private railway companies and railway infrastructure companies in Germany . The company is a subsidiary of Rhenus AG & Co. KG in Holzwickede in Germany, a European logistics service provider. Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert GmbH is based in St. Ingbert in Saarland .
Company history
Until November 2006, the company was called Unisped GmbH. Unisped GmbH was a subsidiary of Saarbergwerke AG; the organization of the Saar coal mines. This went on in the Deutsche Steinkohle AG (DSK) . In 1996, Unisped was approved as a public railway company and started rail transport. In 1998 Unisped GmbH was sold to the British Wincanton PLC and became Wincanton Rail GmbH. In 2012 Wincanton Germany was sold to Rhenus AG & Co. KG. Since February 2012 the company has been called Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert GmbH.
Today the company carries out construction train traffic in south-west Germany and also serves sidings that have been canceled by DB. For example, it serves the siding of the sugar beet plant ( Südzucker ) in Offstein on the Worms – Grünstadt railway line . Around 10,000 tons of granulated sugar are transported away from Offstein every year.
The company also operates the Worms port railway. In 2006, 180,000 t of goods were transported on the 21 km long port railway network. In addition, various freight transports in the southern and western Palatinate are handled from the Worms location.
On January 1, 2009, Wincanton Rail took over the railway line between Grünstadt and Neuoffstein as the railway infrastructure company.
Vehicle inventory
At the beginning of 2012, Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert had 23 locomotives, including vehicles from the old DB class 211 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Ingbert District Court HRB 3134
- ^ A b Jochen Glatt: Topic on Saturday: The railway line from Grünstadt to Worms. The last passenger train ran 40 years ago. Lower Eistalbahn was once operationally split in two - Südzucker continues to stick to the route from Grünstadt to the Offstein plant. In: Die Rheinpfalz No. 285, Unterhaardter Rundschau, Saturday, December 6, 2008
- ↑ - ( 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.
- ↑ http://www.privat-bahn.de/Unisped.html
