The ever growing number of motorway traffic jams is threatening to make certain industrial centers inaccessible. In contrast, inland container terminals provide a clean, efficient and punctual solution to the actual transport problem. They also offer an innovative and inexpensive alternative to over-crowded deep-sea terminals with their long and expensive delays. Transshipments via water linked inland container terminals prove to be an alternative with economical and environmental advantages, such as:
· Faster response to shipper’s requirements
· Storage of the containers at the customer’s back door
· Improved planning by avoiding traffic bottle necks
· Considerable reductions in CO2 emissions
Superbly located with state-of-the-art equipment
Over the last few decades, European inland container terminals have been growing explosively. It goes without saying that Katoen Natie Port Operations has made itself at home in this market - and successfully. We operate 4 inland container terminals; in Kallo, Wielsbeke, Rouen and Terneuzen. These terminals have state-of-the-art equipment and are directly connected to European rail-, water- and motorways. |