Timber

Rough cut tree during loading

A very special raw material: Wood

The timber-focused portfolio at DB Cargo Logistics offers customer-oriented logistics solutions for the sustainable transport of wood freight by rail.

 Your benefits from our wood logistics

  • Concept design, implementation and management of integrated logistics solutions from a single source.
  • Sector expertise of long standing.
  • Timber ports and railports for transhipment and interim storage.
  • Special equipment fleet with approx. 1,600 wagons for raw timber and sawn timber.
  • Access to a large fleet of covered wagons.
  • Multimodal expertise for pellets, sawn timber and wooden construction components.
  • Fast and simple communication with customers via an online ordering portal.

Sustainable with every fibre

Raw wood, sawn timber, chipboard, pellets, waste wood and timber construction components – across Europe, we deploy the right type of transport and supplement them with transhipment services, correct warehousing, first-and-last-mile connections by road and administration services such as certificate management. We organise single wagonload consignments and block trains across Europe, deploy our sector-specific equipment and put tailored solutions from a single source into place.

Lumber before loading

Our services for you

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Portrait Clemens Pflaesterer

Clemens Pflästerer

Head of TimberDB Cargo Logistics GmbH