Intermodal Fastest Cheapest
The Adriatic shortcut: Asian cargo discharged at Trieste reaches the Ruhr several days sooner than via the North Sea.
Crosses: IT → AT → DE
- Transit
- 2 d
- Departures
- 21/wk
- Indicative
- $950–$1,650
- CO₂ vs road
- −87%
Trieste → Duisburg
1 rail service between Trieste Campo Marzio in Italy and Duisburg Intermodal Terminal in Germany. Fastest is 2 days; cheapest starts around $950.
Through running — no gauge break
Both facilities serve Standard (1435 mm), so a wagon can run through without transshipment or a bogie change. This is the cheap case: no gauge break means no mandatory stop and no handling cost between the two ends.
Services on this corridor
Corridor facts
- Distance
- 1,150 km
- Fastest transit
- 2 days
- Services
- 1
- Origin gauge
- Standard (1435 mm)
- Destination gauge
- Standard (1435 mm)
- Countries crossed
- 3
- Best emissions
- 8 gCO₂/tonne-km
- Road benchmark
- 62 gCO₂/tonne-km