Eisenbahn und Häfen
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| Logistics (rail and ports) | |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Headquarters | Duisburg, Germany |
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Area served
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Ruhr |
| 157million Euro (2006/7) 143million Euro (2007/8) |
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| Owner | ThyssenKrupp |
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Number of employees
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1300 (2006/7) 1200 (2007/8) |
| Subsidiaries | EH Güterverkehr GmbH (founded 1998) |
| Website | http://www.eisenbahn-und-haefen-gmbh.de/ |
The Eisenbahn und Häfen GmbH (literal "Railway and Port company Ltd.") (abbr. : EH) is a service company providing rail transportation and associated storage as well as operating the Rhine ports of Schwelgern and Walsum-Süd.
The company is owned by ThyssenKrupp and has its headquarters in Duisburg.
Employing approximately 1,300 employees with around 100 million tons of freight is moved per year (~70 million tonnes by rail and ~25 million tonnes of bulk goods handled by the port), the company is responsible for both railway and port operations, management and maintenance.
With over 90 locomotives and about 2,000 freight cars Eisenbahn und Häfen GmbH operates in the Ruhr area providing rail transportation to its parent Thyssen Krupp as well as other industrial companies including Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH, Mannesmannröhren-Werke GmbH, Mittal Steel Ruhrort GmbH and TSTG Schienen Technik GmbH & Co. KG. The primary cargos are steel, coke, iron ore and other steel products such as steel slab and coil.
Within the Ruhr area the network is over 500 km in length, with over a thousand switches. As well as fully operating the railway the company carries out infrastructure maintenance and inspection.
Within individual sites the company uses mainly shunting locomotives such as Krauss-Maffei Class MH 05 (522 kW power). The company also has higher powered MaK G 1205 (1,119 kW) and MaK G 1206 (1,500 kW) locomotives which are certified for use on Deutsche Bahn AG lines. Other services include the operation of private sidings, rolling stock maintenance, time-sensitive operations and, in association with other freight companies, supra-regional transportation. As part of the services offered EH implements various systems including centrally operated signalling and switches, central radio communications and control, and time-sensitive logistics planning.
EH locomotives and some wagons carry a livery of primary yellow and red with blue numbering.
EH Güterverkehr GmbH (literally "EH freight", aka EHG) is a subsidiary company operating as a private rail company on open access lines - in 2006 it transported approximately 7 million tons.
Together the ports help serve the inward and outward flows of material related to the steel industry the organisation primarily serves. Both ports stock control systems are computerised.
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