Holden environment rail for Schulze-Freyberg of Polzug

Walter Schulze-Freyberg, Managing Director of Polzug Intermodal GmbH, also very well, known in Korean logistics field for his active career, has been awarded its Logistics Prize by BF Bahnen (the Federation of Managers of German Rail Companies). The Federation confers its ?olden Environment Rail on personalities from the business, political and academic worlds for outstanding services to rail transport.

Schulze-Freyberg has headed Polzug Intermodal GmbH since it was founded in 1991. Now 56, he has made a major contribution to building up Polzug as a leading supplier of rapid, sustainable rail transport between the Northern European container ports and Central and Eastern Europe.

Polzug is a joint venture between Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), PKP Polish State Railways and Deutsche Bahn AG. Schulze-Freyberg is the first HHLA manager to receive the Holden Environment Rail

This award is a tremendous honor for me. I am absolutely delighted about it, commented Polzug? Managing Director.

The Federation of Managers of German Rail Companies bestowed the Holden Environment Rail on Schulze-Freyberg during a ceremony held in Hamburg on October 16, under the motto Rail Transport Contributing to Climate Protection

Polzug was the first private rail company to develop block container train links between ports in Northern Europe and Poland. Today its transport services extend well beyond Poland, into the CIS States, the Caucasus and as far as Central Asia. Polzug accordingly plays a crucial part in transporting rapidly growing quantities of goods from the North Sea ports of Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Rotterdam to the emerging national economies of Eastern Europe in a way that conserves the climate. Since being founded, Polzug has already managed to save altogether around 200,000 tons of climate-harmful carbon dioxide.

Along with Metrans and Transfracht, as part of Intermodal, the second largest HHLA Group field of business, Polzug is one of the three rail operating companies that network container handling at the overseas ports with the hinterland.

In Poland as its key market, Polzug Intermodal is already serving eight terminals in leading industrial centers, with the four in Pruszkow (Warsaw), Wroclaw, Gadki and in Slawkow near Katowice in Polzug ownership.

Schulze-Freyberg as the holder of important posts was deeply involved in developing and implementing the business idea for Polzug. Now 56, after studying he commenced his career with the DDG ansa shipping company as a cargo officer on board its heavy cargo freighters. In 1987 this graduate industrial engineer in sea transport and deck officer with a captain? patent for the great trades joined the port logistics group HHLA as a senior consultant in its consultancy subsidiary HPC Hamburg Port Consulting.

Prior to this post as a consultant, from 1981 until 1987 he worked as a logistics expert and adviser to
the Executive Board at plant manufacturer Deutsche Babcock AG in Oberhausen, a company operating worldwide.

About Polzug Intermodal

With its container block trains, HHLA affiliate POLZUG Intermodal is the market leader between the Northern European container ports of Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Rotterdam and the hinterland in Poland as well as large parts of Central and Eastern Europe. EDP systems catering specifically for the customers, along with a certified quality management system, guarantee provision of reliable and sustainable transport services at a high level. The partners HHLA Intermodal GmbH (Hamburg), DB Mobility Logistics AG (Berlin) and PKP Cargo S. A. (Warsaw) each hold a 33.3 % stake in the company.<Korea Shipping Gazette>