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■ INFRASTRUCTURE PORT
RELIEF FOR KORNWESTHEIM
It is still not clear who will later be operating the termi- nal. As with the building work, tenders are being invit- ed. The first train is to be handled by mid-2021. As a start, existing services will be sent on to Horb. Trains from Hamburg and Bremerhaven will then be split up in Kornwestheim, the established and heavily frequent- ed terminal near Stuttgart. Shipments for Northern Baden-Württemberg will be despatched from Korn- westheim. The remaining loads will proceed to Horb as half-trains for further distribution. KTH will aim to re- lieve existing terminals and shorten pre- and post-car- riage tours by road. Southern Baden-Württemberg is a highly productive economic centre correspondingly high volumes of freight haulage in the region from Lake Constance to Kornwestheim. The KTH will considera- bly reduce the long distances involved. Plathe foresees a further shift of freight shipments – especially of mar- itime cargo – from road to rail.
For years now, business and politics in Baden-Württem- berg have been discussing an additional facility for road-rail transhipment of containers. Following a local referendum, long-time favourite Eutingen had to withdraw from the race.
COOPERATION WITH DB NETWORK AND LOCAL POLITICIANS
Following the end for Eutingen in 2016, Horst Schuon, CEO of the eponymous logistics company, and Kurt Plathe, owner at the time of Spedition Kuss- maul, not simply initiated discussion of Horb, only a few kilometres away, as the location, but also set planning in motion. DB Netz was taken on board at an early stage, regional politicians were involved, and discussions sought with politicians specializing in transport.
All those concerned are working on bringing this about. The state and the city are meeting large slices of the in- itial planning costs for feasibility and preliminary plan- ning. The federal government will subsidize costs for building the terminal and renewing points and the sig- nal box. Notice of a grant has already been given. The state Ministry of Transport has set up an internal con- tact point for the project.
According to the Federation of German Transport Com- panies (VDV), 50 applications have been lodged nation- wide for similar projects to reactivate disused sidings as freight transport terminals. ■ Karin Lengenfelder
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