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Rail freight transport is becoming digital

Use our link2rail eServices via a portal, an app or a direct interface (API) to your systems for transport processing with a few clicks.
Rail freight transport is becoming digital
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Network

Get a quick overview of DB Cargo's international rail freight services. Here you can take a look at a graphical representation of our most important products, divided into four categories.
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Schedule

With our freight timetable you can obtain information on your connections quickly and easily. The overview of the range of services in the single wagon system simplifies the planning of your transports.
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Rail Access

Auch ohne eigenen Gleisanschluss haben Sie die Möglichkeit, multimodale Transporte europaweit durchzuführen. Hier finden Sie passende Zugangspunkte zum Schienennetz.
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Our highlights

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DB Cargo is greener than ever

While rail freight transport is already very environmentally friendly, DB Cargo has taken things a step further. With DBeco plus and DBeco neutral, we transport your freight by rail without producing any CO2 emissions whatsoever, while our transports by road are climate neutral.
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Clicking into the future

Ordering, booking and tracking freight wagons has always been a complex process – until now. The centralised link2rail customer platform is gradually being rolled out to customers.

News

29.06.2020
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Top marks for environmental protection

The coronavirus pandemic may have nudged environmental protection and the surrounding debate into the background for now, but DB Cargo has defied these times of crisis to transport goods reliably while using its Eco Solutions to outgreen other modes of transport. The CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), an international rating agency, has once again confirmed this fact for Deutsche Bahn AG as a whole, awarding the company a top grade of "A".
10.06.2020
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DB Cargo expands shuttle service between Duisburg and Antwerp

Three departures with additional capacity per week • Eliminates need for a further 10,000 trucks per year
20.05.2020
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Empty Wagon – your wagon order is just a click away

link2rail is driving the digitalisation of services at DB Cargo in leaps and bounds, which is why we’re publishing a brief series on it in the railways newsletter. In this issue, you’ll learn how to order new wagons using the Empty Wagon feature while still keeping an eye on the big picture.

DB Cargo introduces itself

We get things moving and your goods reliably reach their destination. With the largest fleet on the continent and one of the largest rail networks in the world, we offer you rail transport throughout Europe - even for medium-sized customers with just one wagon.

Numbers

  • 2686 Locomotives transport and shunt your goods - including more and more electric and hybrid locomotives.

  • 30648 DB Cargo employees give their very best for you every day - and the number is still growing.

  • 82895 Own, leased and rented DB Cargo freight wagons in use for you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Your career at DB Cargo

More than that, we stand for globally integrated logistics, we connect markets and people all over the world - work together with us on this global challenge.

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Sustainability is part of our DNA

We harmonise environmental protection, economic and social responsibility.

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