Operational areas in Leipzig, Ulm, Frankfurt\/Main and Mannheim were expanded and the company extended its services into the storage of loaded containers.<\/p>\n
“This offer was meant to reduce congestion in the harbour ports because of high container storage demand and to help to make the transport chain more economical and more reliable,” says Gerhard Bukowski, managing director of DB Intermodal Services. “Because of the worldwide crisis there is limited demand for these services at the moment, but we are sure that this will change in the future.”<\/p>\n
The key factor in container depot design is reducing the operational costs, which have to be considered in relation to the size of the depot, says Mr Bukowski. DB IS has recently opened a new depot at Nuremburg harbour.<\/p>\n
The company saw an increasing demand for container storage and repair at the beginning of 2009 – the result, he says, of the cancellation of container investments. However, by the end of the year business was back to a more normal situation, albeit at a 15% lower level.<\/p>\n
“The crisis itself has nothing to do with the need of container depot activities. Even if a container repair in the Far East only costs 10% of the European inland price, it would not make sense to send containers to the Far East for repair, when they are needed in Europe,” he says.<\/p>\n
For Pentalver in the UK, there have been ups and downs thanks to the economic situation and, more recently, the weather.<\/p>\n
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