Diminishing returns for Euro box builders

A Germany-based company has introduced ten further developments, ensuring greater stability and easier handling.

Krone, one of Germany’s largest manufacturers of trailers, is now using rail as its principal transport mode to deliver its units to customers in south-west Germany.

Rail Cargo Group (RCG), which is a subsidiary of Austria-based ÖBB, is to lease 600 container flats cars from Switzerland-based MFD Rail.

The intermodal logistics services company has acquired all the shares in CCFC, a leading Italian manufacturer of swap bodies, cranable trailers and special containers

A sharp fall in orders for new containers has taken its toll on container manufacturers with H1 2023 revenues and profits at China International Marine Containers (CIMC), Dong Fang International Containers (DFIC) and Singamas well down on the corresponding period of 2022.

The leader in European land transport has taken delivery of 200 Krone Mega Liners for use in its French network – the first batch of a new fleet of 2,100 megatrailers for operations in France