co. kg 1 industry container logistics headquarters duisburg germany key people heinrich kerstgens managing director thomas loeffler managing director konrad fischer managing director marcel hulsker managing director revenue 405 million eur 2015 number of employees 886 7 march 2016 website www.contargo.net container terminal in the port of mannheim taken over from wincanton contargo gmbh & co. kg is an internationally active logistics service provider performing trimodal transport between the seaports and the european hinterland and providing all auxiliary services such as empty container depots and repairs . contargo transports approximately 2 3 million teu annually in its network 25 terminals four inland shipping lines and several rail lines along the rhine and its main tributaries up to switzerland . contents 1 history 2 services 3 environment 4 subsidiaries and holdings 5 shareholder 6 references 7 external links history edit contargo was founded in 2004 bundling the activities of various enterprises in container hinterland logistics some of which had been active since1976 in combined transport by barge and truck and the operation of container terminals . 2004 start of operations at the ludwigshafen terminal in the kaiserw rthhafen 2004 participation in rail operator necoss extending contargo s interest to include container rail transport . 2006 takeover of the activities of barge operator interfeeder ducotra b.v. in dordrecht nl 2008 april combined service gmbh & co. kg ccs and interfeeder b.v. merged to form contargo b.v. 2008 august 100 % takeover of contargo container escaut service cces 2009 february service point opened in tokyo japan 2011 january contargo alpina ag basel and bmt basel multi terminal ag merged to form contargo ag 2011 november contargo takes over the p hland group with six subsidiaries 2011 december activities at the aschaffenburg terminal discontinued and transferred to frankfurt 2012 january contargo takes over six wincanton terminals 2 2012 march contargo koblenz gmbh renamed contargo rhein main gmbh 2012 may full takeover of rhinecontainer purchase of remaining shares from k hne & nagel 2012 september mainz terminal closed and moved to gustavsburg 2012 october integration of the karlsruhe and w rth terminals to form contargo w rth karlsruhe gmbh inclusion of the ludwigshafen and mannheim terminals in contargo rhein neckar gmbh extension of contargo rhein main gmbh to include the terminals gustavsburg and frankfurt ost 2012 december following the takeover of inland barge operator rhinecontainer b.v. and transbox b.v. these are integrated into contargo b.v. the new shipping company operates as contargo waterway logistics 2013 january with effect from 1 january contargo gives up its 49.8 percent share in rail operator necoss and now operates its own container rail link hamburg hof 3 2013 december contargo takes over neuss intermodal terminal gmbh nit from apm terminals apmt and changes its name to contargo neuss gmbh 4 2014 september the contargo terminal site in germersheim previously a branch office of contargo network service gmbh & co. kg is affiliated to contargo rhein neckar gmbh . 2014 september at the end of the month contargo sells its share of neuss trimodal gmbh neuss germany . 2014 october transbox united bvba a joint venture of contargo subsidiary transbox and united container transport with its headquarters in antwerp commences operations . 4 2014 december contargo container escaut service becomes contargo north france sas with its headquarters in bruay sur l escaut . 5 2015 january contargo north france becomes the operator of the escaut valenciennes terminal in the town of bruay sur l escaut . 6 2015 may contargo receives eco performance award 7 2016 march nyk line awards contargo with its environment prize captain eco 2015 8 2016 july contargo founds contargo rail services gmbh 9 services edit terminals contargo operates a network of hinterland terminals and transport lines along the rhine and its main tributaries up to switzerland also using canals . the western seaports of amsterdam antwerp rotterdam and zeebr gge are the major interfaces for european imports and exports . contargo s multimodal network of hinterland terminals links up primarily with these but the northern seaports of hamburg bremen and bremerhaven are integrated into the container logistics network via rail links and the north western french terminals of prouvy and saint saulve via inland waterways . transport services transport of containers by barge rail and truck heavy load transports and special transports 10 repair services sale and hire of containers environment edit dangerous goods the terminals in ludwigshafen contargo rhein neckar gmbh and frankfurt contargo industriepark frankfurt h chst gmbh are equipped for the interim storage of dangerous goods containers . in basel in transit storage is possible for several days . imtis contargo has developed its own free tariff information system imtis which calculates routes and transport prices in combined transport modes compares different possible routes and gives the co2 consumption for each option . sustainability report in 2014 the contargo group produced its first sustainability report . award in may 2015 contargo received the eco performance award . the enterprise particularly impressed the jury of experts by its tariff calculator imtis and its economically ecologically and socially credible sustainability concept . the eco performance award is conferred by dkv euro service as an independent seal of quality . subsidiaries and holdings edit contargo w rth karlsruhe gmbh karlsruhe w rth germany contargo waterway logistics b.v. zwijndrecht netherlands contargo rhein neckar gmbh ludwigshafen mannheim and germersheim germany contargo rhein main gmbh koblenz frankfurt gustavsburg germany contargo s rl ottmarsheim and strasbourg france contargo ag basel switzerland contargo north france sas prouvy saint saulve and bruay sur l escaut france contargo network service gmbh & co. kg zwijndrecht netherlands dit duisburg intermodal terminal gmbh duisburg germany contargo industriepark frankfurt hoechst gmbh frankfurt germany rhein waal terminal gmbh emmerich germany nwl norddeutsche wasserweg logistik gmbh bremen germany container terminal dortmund gmbh dortmund germany contargo road logistics b.v. zwijndrecht netherlands contargo neuss gmbh neuss germany contargo network logistics gmbh hof d hlau luhe glauchau hamburg germany pilsen czech republic transbox united bvba antwerp belgium contargo weil am rhein weil am rhein germany contargo rail services gmbh mannheim germany shareholder edit rhenus ag & co. kg references edit sitz duisburg ag duisburg hra 7682 phg contargo verwaltungs gmbh duisburg ag duisburg hrb 11844 contargo acquires wincanton s container activities . retrieved 5 november 2014 . contargo withdraws from necoss . retrieved 5 november 2014 . transbox and uct launch joint venture in antwerp . retrieved 5 november 2014 . http www.transportjournal.com home news artikeldetail.html no cache 1 & tx ttnews % 5btt news % 5d 8773 . missing or empty title help http www.fleet.ie breaking news new name new ambitions contargo northern france . missing or empty title help greenport contargo awarded for eco operations . www.greenport.com . retrieved 2016 08 03 . captain eco goes to contargo . www.transportjournal.com in german . retrieved 2016 08 03 . contargo hatches out new rail company . www.transportjournal.com in german . retrieved 2016 08 03 . contargo w rth macht platz f r einen spezialtransport . retrieved 5 november 2014 . external links edit website contargo imtis retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title contargo & oldid 733813732 categories companies established in 2004companies of germanyhidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlscs1 german language sources de navigation menu personal tools not logged 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