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Land Bridges via Rostock, Hamburg and Duisburg
Since October 2003, Rostock has been connected to Europe’s largest seaport, Rotterdam, via the traffic hubs Hamburg and Duisburg. A shuttle train runs several times a week between Rotterdam and Rostock. The train can be completed with continental cargo in Duisburg, Europe’s largest inland port.
With this land bridge, Rostock became a part of the interior transport network of the North Sea ports of Hamburg and Rotterdam and is now directly connected to transatlantic shipping traffic. This connection is of particular interest in the case of urgent cargo that previously had been transported between the North Sea ports Hamburg and Rotterdam and the Baltic Sea region predominately by means of road traffic. The land bridge provides considerable time and price advantages in comparison with conventional road traffic, and rail traffic is an environmentally friendly means of transport.
This land bridge makes it possible for cargo to be transported from Rotterdam to Trelleborg, south Sweden in only 39 hours, and to Helsinki, Finland in only 61 hours.