Moving Europe
Moving Europe Moving Europe
COVER STORY 14 DACHSER magazine On the move: the in-floor dragchain conveyor transports pallets to the respective loading bays
Moving Europe Serving destinations across Europe every day: where no direct services exist, Dachser’s three Eurohubs in Überherrn, Bratislava and Clermont- Ferrand consolidate groupage shipments for pan-European scheduled freight services – with continuously improved transit times and uniform Europe-wide quality standards. hThe day starts at 0.00 hours – in top gear. The first trucks leave the loading ramps at midnight. By 2 a.m., 98 vehicles will have departed for 90 destinations – one every 1.3 minutes. A swarm of blue-and-yellow in the glaring floodlights. It’s rush hour at Dachser’s Eurohub in Überherrn. And when things really get buzzing, Oliver Wild is totally in his element. The 46-year-old family man has been with Dachser for 21 years, occupying a number of positions at various locations. From the year 2000, he was also part of the project team that conceived the first Eurohub in Überherrn, which opened its doors on 30 August 2002. And he has been in charge of the Eurohub there ever since. Überherrn marked the beginnings of a unique pan-European network organization in the world of logistics, which has been completed this year with the opening of additional Eurohubs in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Clermont-Ferrand, France. “The new system COVER STORY with three Eurohubs will reduce the number of transshipment operations to the destination branch office to one or at maximum two,” explains Wolfgang Janda, manager of Dachser’s European Logistics Network Management: Production division. “Through targeted and systematic load consolidation, the three Eurohubs enable us to compensate imbalances in European traffic flows with goods destined for regional and national transport. In this way, we improve our transport capacity utilization and optimize our economic and ecological efficiency.” “The hub system is the natural consequence of our vision of what network competence means,” says Michael Schilling, managing director of Dachser’s European Network Management & Logistics Systems business unit. In its European overland services, the Dachser network relies on precision-timed connections. These are ensured on a daily basis within the scope of the entargo � DACHSER magazine 15
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COVER STORY<br />
14 DACHSER magazine<br />
On the move: the in-floor dragchain<br />
conveyor transports pallets<br />
to the respective loading bays
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