Due to the increasing level of demand for the shipment of cargo between Rotterdam and Italy, the Dutch rail operator Shuttlewise has opened a new rail shuttle connection for containers between the Port of Rotterdam and the Mortara rail terminal in northern Italy.
Since this service has launched it has been a resounding success, and so the service will be increasing from three to five times a week in the near future. The operator is currently focusing on containers and swapbodies but trailers will also be added at a later date.
The efficiency of goods flow management is essential to any company with an interest in auto relocation services and this new intermodal service will provide to be very important as it opens up the possibilities for large transshipments between the two European countries.
The terminal at Mortara can handle up to 1.5m tones of intermodal cargo per year. Therefore, the introduction of the Shuttlewise service will most definitely ease the burden on other intermodal terminals in the area and improve the overall efficiency of container shuttle services from the Port of Rotterdam, which is the largest port in Europe.
