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

You can execute multimodal transport across Europe even without sidings. You will find suitable access points to the rail network here.
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Our highlights

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Freight belongs on rail

We have launched the initiative "Freight belongs on the rail". Now you can make a contribution too by supporting us.
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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

08.04.2021

KV 4.0 – digital, transparent, reliable

Following a little more than three years of close cooperation, we have now reached an important milestone in the digitalisation of combined transport. The KV 4.0 data breaks down the barriers between the various participants in the combined transport process. A big step for the 11-member project consortium involving DB Cargo and headed up by Kombiverkehr, and a giant leap for end-to-end transparency in customer supply chains.
25.03.2021
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Full load, full charge

When DB Cargo Logistics transports batteries and cell modules with made-to-measure rail services, it takes care of everything from planning to execution. In summer 2020, the company's logistics experts started using trains to move batteries, each weighing hundreds of kilos, from Braunschweig to Zwickau, where they are needed at the ID.3 and ID.4 production bases.
18.03.2021
Rail freight transport with EVplus in DB Cargo's single-wagon network

Creating an EVplus network

In summer 2020, we began offering our customers door-to-door EVplus service from Hamburg to Cologne. Seven new lanes are launching in 2021.

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

  • 2600 Locomotives transport and shunt your goods - including more and more electric and hybrid locomotives.

  • 30100 DB Cargo employees give their very best for you every day - and the number is still growing.

  • 78200 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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