LTG Cargo makes Kaunas-Slawkow link regular with surprises on the way
LTG Cargo is making the Kaunas-Slawkow intermodal link between Lithuania-Poland regular with two weekly roundtrips. The company tested the route for six months and ran services on customer demand. With the service being regular from 15 June onwards, LTG also adds something new: the trains will also stop at Pruszkow, METRANS’ terminal near Warsaw, thus hitting two birds with one stone.
“The route will be operated solely by LTG with the help of its Polish subsidiary LTG Cargo Poland. In six months, we managed to make the Kaunas-Slawkow service regular, thanks to the increased customer demand”, commented Egle Sime, head of LTG Cargo. She added that apart from the regularity, customers can also benefit from the geographic characteristics of the service, and there’s a good reason for that.
From north to south
The service is part of the North-South European transport corridor, not a TEN-T corridor, but a Pan-European transport network corridor extending from Helsinki to northern Poland via the Baltics and all the way south to Italy. This, combined with the two destinations–Slawkow and Warsaw–allows LTG’s service to expand its customers’ reach even more.
The company says that via Slawkow, customers can benefit from direct and regular connections to Schwarzeide in Germany, Maddaloni in Italy, the port of Koper in Slovenia and the port of Gdańsk in Poland. Additionally, from Slawkow cargo can find its way to Ukraine thanks to the broad gauge line linking the terminal to the Ukrainian border. Finally, in the context of the North-South corridor, the ports of Klaipeda in Lithuania and Muuga in Estonia can also become part of the supply chain.
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