Updates on the operating situation on the northern and confederate corridors

Dear Customers,
We would like to inform you about the situation on our northern and confederate corridors.

Hamburg

The second 24-hour lockout of the Finkenwerder Bridge took place over this weekend, blocking the connection to the Hamburg terminals CT Burchardkai and Eurogate. We will face further, shorter closures on this section at the beginning of October this year.

The HPA has been regulating arrivals to the port of Hamburg since the beginning of July. During the past weekend, we were forced to halt a large number of trains along the way, which are presently starting to decision again. The situation affects not only our services to / from Hamburg, but besides services Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven.

The most critical situation is presently on the German national service, which is facing the highest number of stopped export trains, causing besides deficiency of trainsets for planned import trains.

Koper

As we have previously informed you, the operation on the way to / from the port of Koper is importantly limited with major closures beginning recently, due to which we gotta reduce the full number of connections on this service. However, the weekend brought further crucial complications in the form of derailments of trains of another operators on 2 different sections of the Slovenian railways. Therefore, we were forced to cancel another 3 pairs of trains.

Currently, operation on the corridor is restored again, but due to the mentioned extraordinary events, utilizing 1 track only and at limited speed.

We keep on monitoring the situation on our full network constantly and we are working hard to minimize the negative impacts on our services.

Please feel free to contact our client service departments in case of questions regarding your shipments in particular.

METRANS Team