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You do not want your valuable cargo to disappear because containers are opened during transport at railway yards or company sites. European Gateway Services (EGS) therefore offers its customers extra security.Almost all wagons that EGS uses in its network have so-called security bars.

Nearly 100 percent of rail freightwagons will have silent brakes by 2025; this is the result of European legislation. A great ambition! Much better, however, is that European Gateway Services (EGS) already operates these wagons between Rotterdam and Venlo and between Rotterdam and Southern Germany since 2014.

For more than two years, Danser Group and European Gateway Services (EGS) have been connecting  both the ECT Euromax and ECT Delta terminal of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam on the Maasvlakte with terminals and empty depots in the Waalhaven and Botlek area, including those of the Waalhaven Group and the Kramer Group. The Rotterdam Corridor has a fixed and very reliable (99%) timetable based on fixed windows at the ECT terminals. The Rotterdam Corridor also has fixed connections to RWG and APMT on the Maasvlakte.

For some time already, European Gateway Services (EGS), Barge Terminal Born and the Danser Group have successfully joined forces in the Limburg Express. For the last two years, the Limburg Express has been maintaining a fixed barge connection between Born, Venlo and the ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam. The partners would now like to scale up to Limburg Express 2.0, in which an additional ship will be deployed that also calls at other terminals in Rotterdam.

 Our inland terminal Hutchison Ports Duisburg handles an average of about 5 trains per week that connect Europe by land with China via the Silk Road.Hutchison Ports Duisburg has been part of this route since April 2020.  

We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary! In 2010 Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam founded European Gateway Services as a transport product to better serve our clients. Now, EGS offers a wide variety of intermodal and synchromodal transport connections between all deepsea terminals in the port of Rotterdam and Antwerp and the leading economic centres of Western and Central Europe.Based on this solid foundation, EGS aims to further distinguish itself in the market in the coming years, mainly through its service provision.

We keep on improving and extending our network and services. Take a look at the latest map of our network to see all our rail and barge destinations. You can use our transportplanner tool to check how we can help you.  

By using Vectron locomotives, EGS and traction partner RTB Cargo are frontrunners in sustainable container transport by rail:

EGS has added Kornwestheim in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany to its network. The train connection is an extension of the synchromodal services to and from this region.In southern Germany, EGS also offers connections with Nuremberg and Munich. The connection to Kornwestheim is provided by Boxxpress in combination with the connection with Munich.