CargoBeamer
Sign in to savethumb|First CargoBeamer train on the Gotthard railway|Gotthard railway line, April 2015, pulled by [[BLS Cargo]] Cargobeamer is an intermodal transport system. It involves specially designed pallets which can be carried on a road trailer; the pallets are fitted on top of flatcars but can slide sideways to allow trucks to drive on and off smoothly at intermodal terminals. A first testing terminal was opened in Leipzig in Germany; trial runs between Leipzig and Lithuania were planned in November 2010. Since July 2021, the first full CargoBeamer terminal is available to the public transport marke
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- Network
- Kaldenkirchen–Domodossola
- Calais–Perpignan
- Stuttgart–Domodossola
- Venlo–Oradea
- Liège-Domodossola
- Realized and planned CargoBeamer-Terminals
- Calais (France)
- Domodossola (Italy)
- Kaldenkirchen (Germany)
- Competing systems
- See also
- References
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thumb|First CargoBeamer train on the Gotthard railway|Gotthard railway line, April 2015, pulled by [[BLS Cargo]] Cargobeamer is an intermodal transport system. It involves specially designed pallets which can be carried on a road trailer; the pallets are fitted on top of flatcars but can slide sideways to allow trucks to drive on and off smoothly at intermodal terminals. A first testing terminal was opened in Leipzig in Germany; trial runs between Leipzig and Lithuania were planned in November 2010. Since July 2021, the first full CargoBeamer terminal is available to the public transport market in Calais, France.
== Network == The company advertises several routes: Kaldenkirchen – Domodossola (, 23 hours) Calais – Perpignan (, 28 hours) Stuttgart – Domodossola (, 18 hours) Venlo – Oradea (, 60 hours) Liège – Domodossola (, 38 hours)