2008-04: Germany to UK service is ‘first of many’

EWS has launched the first of many new Channel Tunnel intermodal trains with a new train service from Duisburg in Germany to Manchester. The new service, which will operate daily Tuesday to Saturday, provides intermodal operators and shippers with a next day arrival and the opportunity to bypass the heavily congested M62 motorway. Duisburg is a city of half a million people situated in the north Rhine Westphalia area, traditionally associated with heavy industry. EWS is now part of the DB Schenker organisation and DB Intermodal locomotives haul the train from Germany to the tunnel. EWS, with its extensive experience of operating international services through the Channel Tunnel, takes over at Calais. http://tinyurl.com/3qcfss