DB Schenker Rail opens European control centre

As part of its transition from being a German rail freight operator to a ‘truly European’ business, DB Schenker Rail inaugurated a new European Operations Centre in Frankfurt on June 2. At present, the company operates through 15 national companies, but its CEO Alexander Hedderich said the intention is to move ‘from patchwork to network’ by 2020. ‘Last year, DB Schenker Rail handled a traffic volume of around 104 billion tonne-km, which is almost a quarter of Europe’s entire rail freight’, he reported, adding that the EOC would contribute significantly to the company’s planned convergence.