The companies presented how trailers can be transferred onto regular intermodal wagons using different technologies. At the event, a non-craneable trailer was loaded onto an Ermewa T3000 pocket wagon using the NIKRASA platform.
Christoph Dörre of TX Logistik says: "With NIKRASA we have developed a solution for non-craneable trailers: They are loaded from road to rail in just two minutes. In this way, we enable our customers to carry out the majority of their transport by rail".
These platforms offer non-craneable trailers easier access to rail: the trailer is driven onto the platform, lifted by a gantry crane or reach stacker, loaded onto the rail pocket wagon and ready for the long journey by rail.
Cyrille Guyon, Deputy Managing Director of Ermewa, points out: "Bringing non-craneable truck trailers onto rail makes a tangible contribution to reducing CO2 emissions from freight transport and to the European Green Deal."
The current trend in Europe is to use rail for long-distance transport and road for the last mile. This also applies to transport with non-craneable semi-trailers, currently around 90 percent of the European fleet, which has been systematically tied to the road.
