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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

12.11.2020
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Digital and automatic

Modern coupling technology in the rail freight sector is both digital and automatic. Commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), a pilot project to demonstrate, test and approve the use of digital automatic coupling (DAC) in freight trains started in June, and trials are now in full swing.
02.10.2020
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With EVplus, DB Cargo launches door-to-door service

Door-to-door deliveries between Hamburg and Cologne are now available with our brand-new single wagonload product. This service will give customers without private sidings access to the rail network.
12.11.2020
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As green as it gets

DB Cargo Logistics assists Mercedes-Benz with the implementation of its sustainable business strategy and supports the carmaker as it takes the next step towards carbon-neutral mobility: at the start of 2020, rail services for inbound logistics made the switch to CO2-free energy.

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

  • 2680 Locomotives transport and shunt your goods - including more and more electric and hybrid locomotives.

  • 29525 DB Cargo employees give their very best for you every day - and the number is still growing.

  • 82685 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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