Wherever your cargo is heading, you can rely on our tailored rail solutions and our connections with major rail operators to make sure your goods arrive on time, in time, every time. Our team of experts handles all aspects of the documentation ensuring flawless execution both ends and monitoring the shipments via GPS tracker enroute.
The intercontinental rail portfolio consists of 3 main products being Block Train, Single Container FCL and LCL between China and Europe, and CIS both directions.
The block train product (full train dedicated to one customer) is a tailor-made solution, reviewing the optimal and preferred routes from China to Europe and vice versa. The min. requirement is 41 containers and max. 50 containers per train.
The single rail container moves products door to door. Depending on origin, we have several weekly departures and options available from China to Europe and vice versa.
The rail LCL product from China to Europe including door-to-door solutions using Poland as hub for final leg distribution to EU countries.
Addressing the challenges of online shopping, changing buying behaviors and shorter product lifestyle, Intercontinental Rail offers a competitive end-to-end solution combining reliability, sustainability and speed to market.
The significant lower costs than airfreight combined with faster lead times reduce the working capital, save interest and reduce the inventories.
Railway environment friendly transport mode reducing the Co2 emission significant versus airfreight.
Complimentary to Ocean product including usage of The Auto Farm Inc. containers given full flexibility to the customers and connecting with our strong intermodal network.
Service takes 16-18 days from China's major rail gateways to Europe reducing the transit time by 10-15 days with multiple departures a week.
Rail has excellent reliability arriving in-time, on time and no rolling policy.
We monitor the shipment continuously from end to end. In The Auto Farm Inc. we monitor via GPS trackers along the whole route (both for FCL and LCL).
Real time alerts based on combination of business rules.
GPS and multi-sensor tracking able to provide:
This shoe box example is a good illustration of the different modes of transport and especially the lower costs and emission when compared with Air. This allows the customer with flexibility to choose the transport mode that fits their needs.
