For a leading Swiss manufacturer of rolling stock, Militzer & Münch Switzerland transports components to Belarus for the assembly of rail wagons, and to Hungary for interior fitting. The wagons are to be used for passenger transport on the Hungarian railway network.
The rolling stock industry has profited from a steadily increasing total market for new railway vehicles, growing from 48 billion EUR in 2012 to 55 billion EUR in 2017. The construction material Militzer & Münch transports covers everything needed for the construction of railway wagons: aluminum profiles, toilets, brakes, switches, cables, foamed plastics and textiles.
Militzer & Münch Basel serves as control tower
“Several Militzer & Münch teams cooperate on this project so we can offer the customer the best possible transport solution,” says Nikolaus Kohler, Regional Managing Director Middle East / Central Asia. “We use the Militzer & Münch Belarus truck fleet. Militzer & Münch Basel coordinates the entire project and does the customs clearance. We also use our Eichenzell location as a consolidation hub for goods from Europe.”
Since January 2018, the team has handled about four to five full truck loads (FTL) from Switzerland to Belarus per week, with another two to three FTL transports dispatched from Eichenzell per week. Plans are to extend the weekly transport volume to 15 full truck loads. The project is scheduled to run through December 2019. The customer has already announced further transports, this time to Azerbaijan.
A special IT solution developed by in-house IT company ‘MMcom’ allows the customer real-time visibility of goods flows from different countries of origin via two consolidation hubs to the destinations in Belarus and Hungary.