Delivering automotive components to production lines

Our high-performance Automotive RailNet means your components arrive at your plant just-in-time as well as just-in-sequence.

Just-in-time and just-in-sequence

Customised services are the key to success. We work closely with you to develop integrated, environmentally friendly logistics models for road and rail. We manage your shipments every step of the way. Our logistics models are efficient end-to-end solutions that mesh with your processes and adapt perfectly to your requirements.

The benefits of Automotive RailNet

Intra-plant, supplier and spare part transport.
Across Europe, to Russia and China.
Just-in-time and just-in-sequence.
The perfect combination of rail and road transport.
End-to-end management from a single source.

Kai Birnstein

Head of Automotive Components DB Cargo Logistics GmbH

Telephone +49 6107 509-880

E-Mail kai.birnstein@deutschebahn.com

Logistics as an all-in-one package

Our integrated automotive components logistics leave nothing out. From the main leg of a journey by train and transhipment to lorry-based first-and-last-mile deliveries and plant shunting services, you can count on us for everything. As DB Cargo’s automotive sector experts, DB Cargo Logistics knows what your challenges are and designs the perfect solutions to them.

Our services for you

Battery logistics

Applying logistics expertise to battery transportation. We link companies making lithium-ion cells and battery modules to our existing. Our Automotive RailNet, thereby providing them with direct access to the automotive industry’s production centres.

Europe-wide network

Using conventional and intermodal rail connections, we have created a strong network in Europe that also extends across Eurasia to China. This network allows us to offer maximum flexibility combined with frequent services.

Multimodal transport

By creating a smart system that combines rail and road connections, we can produce efficient and flexible logistics concepts for all of our customers, even those without their own private sidings. We provide single-source management of these door-to-door processes.

Specialised wagons to match your individual requirements

From large but light pressed parts to very heavy engines and gearboxes, our entire wagon fleet is designed to handle all of your products while at the same time combining excellent load capacities with optimum freight safety. Whatever you want to transport, we know how to handle it.

Flexibility with combined transport

Thanks to our custom-designed pool of carrier wagons and loading units with internal clearance of 3 metres, your company can harness the benefits of rail transport without needing its own private siding. We also offer innovative, specially developed transhipment concepts for the rail transportation of trailers that cannot be moved by crane.