In the evening hours of Tuesday 20. August the first train of Advanced World Transport (AWT) from the PKP CARGO Group arrived in Slovenia, headed by a new multisystem Vectron locomotive. In the morning it already arrived for its unloading at the port of Koper.
The train with its cargo of cars came from the Czech Republic through Austria and AWT thus fulfilled its goal of shipping goods across the entire Europe, from north to south, with just one locomotive. The aim of AWT is to strengthen its position in the shipping of automotive and intermodal goods to south Europe and in this way within the framework of PKP CARGO Group to support operation of the logistics triangle, Baltic-Adriatic-North Sea, in this section of the continent.
‚The acquisition of a majority share of Slovenian Primol-Rail, which has a licence for the provision of rail transport services in the country of the Balkan partner, opens up new options for PKP CARGO Group to increase transport volumes from north to south of Europe. Due to the fact that PKP CARGO Group has a licence to operate inter alia in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria, it is now capable, using just one multi-system locomotive to run trains from Poland all the way up to the Slovenia-Italian border and to the Slovenian port of Koper, one of the largest ports on the Adriatic,” commented Maciej Walczyk, Chairman of the Board of AWT.
Up to now AWT run approximately ten trains per week to the border with Slovenia, where the cargo was taken over by a local carrier. It is currently possible to increase the number of these trains, which will increase the number of shipments of PKP CARGO to the states situated from the Baltic Sea all the way up to the Adriatic.
Lukáš Kresač
Spokesperson
AWT Group, Member of PKP CARGO Group
