RheinCargo
RheinCargo
German railway company
RheinCargo GmbH & Co. KG (RheinCargo) is a German joint venture of Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK) and Neuss-Düsseldorfer Häfen GmbH & Co. KG (NDH), each owning 50%.[1] The company was established in 2012.[2] It is headquartered in Neuss
The company operates one of the largest inland port operations in Europe[3] (in Düsseldorf, Neuss, and Cologne) and is also active as a private railway transport company (EVU) in rail freight transport.[4]
The company owns six inland ports with a total turnover of 25.4 million tons (2018) on 560 hectares of land. These include four ports in Cologne (Godorf, Deutz, Niehl I, and Niehl II), the port in Neuss, and the Düsseldorf Harbor as well as the port in Düsseldorf-Reisholz. With around 90 own locomotives and around 700 freight cars, the company carries around 20 million tonnes of freight per year.[5][2]