The German intermodal operator Kombiverkehr has announced that it have handled a volume of shipments by rail in 2025 equal to 666 thousand trucks, with a decrease of -13.5% on the previous year, of which 510 thousand on international lines (-13.3%) and 155 thousand on those national (-14.1%). The services to Southern Europe alone have handled 278 thousand shipments (-5.8%) with Italy and Switzerland, while services to Northern Europe totalled 86 thousand shipments (-19.4%). In terms of 20ft container last year the total traffic was equal to 1.33 million TEUs (-13.6%), while the performance of of transport activity in terms of tonne-kilometres amounted to 13.35 billion tkm (-10,3%).

In 2025, the company recorded revenues of 398.4 million euros (-8.3%) and a net profit of 762 thousand euros compared to 216 thousand in the previous year.

Kombiverkehr specified that in 2025 the challenges of the sector intermodal transport were comparable to those of the previous year, with economic stagnation and weak demand from industry which have also been reflected in the transport market. In addition - he specified the company - combined transport continued to be burdened by high energy and infrastructure costs, as well as the significant construction and modernization works underway on the German rail network, resulting in route diversions and Increased transit times impacting reliability of services and significantly increased resource consumption.

In addition, Kombiverkehr highlighted that the reduction in incentives for charges for access to the railway network the competitiveness of rail transport has worsened compared to road transport, which in 2025 benefited from of diesel fuel and sufficient capacity. A This has been added to the effects of line closures railway and tunnel tunnels lasting several weeks, in on the routes to Spain.