VTG promoting safety and environmental protection with rail tank car training events
Hamburg, 3rd July 2008.The Hamburg-based rail logistics services and wagon hire company VTG is focusing even more impressively on environmental protection and improving the safety of rail transport. VTG, a rail specialist with years of experience handling sensitive goods, has been staging information events to pass its know-how on to the customers, fire brigades and employees of rail companies. In May 2008, VTG trained some dozens of customers from the chemical and oil industry on various rail tank cars in the safe handling of hazardous goods transports.
As a leading European provider of rail services, VTG makes a crucial contribution to the improvement of technology for the safe transport of hazardous goods. Its safety experts are very much in demand for their comprehensive expertise relating to rail tank cars and tank containers, as well as the safe handling of the hazardous products carried in them.
“We gladly pass on our knowledge in the interest of environmental protection and safety. After all, we are experts in this area and can therefore make rail freight traffic an even safer and more attractive option,” explains Sven Wellbrock, Head of Area Germany.
VTG AG has thus been organizing a whole series of training events in order to make an ongoing contribution to improving safety on rail. It recently held safety training sessions in Southern Germany and Austria. In May 2008, more than 50 persons followed an invitation from VTG to an event at the site of Vopak Dupeg Terminal GmbH in the Port of Hamburg. Instruction was given not only in theory but also in practice on a compressed gas and a mineral oil rail tank car, mainly on how valves function, identification of defects, such as labeling of goods, and how to behave in emergency situations. The VTG fittings training rail tank car was of particular interest at this event. The participants were trained on it to familiarize them with various construction types and functions of rail tank car valves. Loading and unloading modalities were presented in and on the wagon to demonstrate practical applications.
With its activities in the rail sector, VTG already promotes one of the most environment-friendly modes of freight transport, and it contributes to ensuring that rail becomes even more environment-friendly by making constant improvements to tanks, valves and other components as well as the operating processes for the safe handling of hazardous goods.
About VTG:
VTG Aktiengesellschaft is one of Europe’s leading rail logistics and wagon hire companies. With about 48,400 rail freight cars, VTG has Europe’s largest private wagon fleet. In addition to the hiring of rail freight cars, the Group offers global tank container transport and comprehensive mulit-modal logistics services mainly around rail transport.
With the combination of its three interrelated divisions Wagon Hire, Rail Logistics and Tank Container Logistics VTG offers its clients a high-performance platform for international transport of their freight. The Group has many years of experience and specific know-how in particular in the transport of liquid and sensitive goods. Its customers include numerous well-known companies from almost all industrial sectors such as, for example, chemicals, mineral oil, the automobile or paper industries.
In the financial year 2007 VTG generated operating revenues of EUR 541.4 million and an operating result (EBITDA) of EUR 137.0 million. Via its subsidiaries and affiliates the company, which has its head office in Hamburg, is mainly present in Europe, Asia and North America. As at 31 March 2008 VTG employed 831 employees worldwide in consolidated companies. Since June 2007 VTG AG has been listed on the official Prime Standard market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (SCN: VTG999).
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