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Lehrte MegaHub facility
Successful entry into service
This rapid trans-shipment facility (rail-road and rail-rail) for combined transport is a unique project in Germany. The centrally located railway transportation hub is located 20 kilometres east of Hanover and also serves routes in the directions of cities such as Lübeck, Duisburg, Ludwigshafen, Munich and Verona. The handling of goods is optimised in the MegaHub facility, with its high-performance portal cranes and innovative sorting system. This further strengthens the development of environmentally friendly rail transport. The incoming containers are redistributed to freight trains, according to their destination, as entire loading units. The shunting and bringing together of freight wagons for this is no longer required. The facility was opened and regular operations started in June 2021, and the combined transport has been consolidating since September. With extensive specialist knowledge in the field of combined transport, Inros Lackner coordinated, from the first draft proposals, the planning and design work relating to the transportation infrastructure, the buildings, the civil engineering facilities including drainage, the control and safety technology and the active and passive noise protection, bringing them together as an integrated, comprehensive result. The company’s responsibilities also included the preparation and supervision of the project’s complex financing and approval processes.