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August 9, 2011
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- New Holland-Italy rail service and Har Vaessen TX Logistik
- Five departures per week in both directions between Venlo and Melzo
 TX Logistik, a company wholly owned by Trenitalia (Italian State Railways Group), will activate a new rail link between the Netherlands and Italy in collaboration with Har Vaessen Transport BV, the Dutch logistics since 2008 is part of Jan de Rijk Logistics.
- The service consists of five weekly departures in both directions between Venlo (Netherlands) and Melzo (Milan) of a freight train consisting of 32 containers to be hauled by locomotives on the whole is interoperable TX Logistik. In addition to perishable goods (flowers, fruits and vegetables), the convoy will also carry commercial products.
- TX Logistik, which has about 300 employees including 150 drivers and railway operations, is focused on transport in the North-South corridor through the AlpsThe Italian company, which last year had a turnover of over 150 million euros, said that with the new product, introduced to the market as the "Intermodal Shift", is offered to the industry a solution that avoids the cost of tolls in Germany and Austria, the limitations imposed by the Swiss authorities for the transit of heavy vehicles and also the cost of the toll motorways in Italy, in addition, this solution is also independent from fluctuations in diesel prices. In Italy the trailers and containers continue to the final destination by means of the same company.
- With this new direct train TX Logistik is expanding its business in Holland, where he recently opened a branch in Venlo. "We consider the Netherlands a growing market - said the head of the intermodal business of TX Logistik, Patrick Zilles - and therefore we have developed additional links."
- For his part, the CEO of the Har Vaessen Transport has stressed that, thanks to the new service, "the goods of our customers will be able to reach Italy in a more fast and convenient." Previously, in fact, Har Vaessen carrying the goods in Cologne or Herne Road, from where it was shipped by rail in a southerly direction.By the end of this year or beginning of next year Har Vaessen is determined to activate another train between Venlo and Melzo.
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