Take a Bulgarian pushed-convoy, add 235 Romanian cars, and let Eco Danube do the job … This is what the transport company Hödlmayr did and the result was quite satisfactory. On the 19th of November, 235 automobiles, from the Romanian make Dacia were loaded in Giurgiu and reached the port of Ennshafen ten days later. While the transport time ran as scheduled, the unloading was carried out in a record time of three and a half hours in the facilities of Ennshafen.
This provides an opportunity to look more closely at the way logistics processes work on the Danube: First comes the cargo, 235 Romanian cars, then the client, the transport company Hödlmayr, the liner service provider in charge of the processes, here Eco Danube, and finally the carrier, the Bulgarian Fanty G who provided the vessel, a push-boat with two double-decked barges. Starting in March 2010, the Helogistics holding will also be running a container liner service on the river, thus proving that the Danube becomes a catalyst for intermodal transport in Southeast Europe.
