Mineral Oil

Refinery and rail tracks by night

Mineral oil – The pipeline on rails

Benefit from safe, flexible, tailor-made rail logistics for your sensitive products.

 Benefits for you

  • High level of transport safety
  • Complete solutions including fleet management, plant logistics and value-added services
  • Ideal tank wagons for every type of freight
  • Coordination of loading and unloading slots
  • Spot trains for short-term transport requests
  • Full range of services from a single source
"Volatile volumes and short-notice transports – sounds like the perfect challenge for our spot trains."

Gabriele Jansen-Krekels, Head of Mineral Oil

From pure traction to complete solutions

We transport single wagonloads, block trains and wagon sets. We can also coordinate loading and unloading slots with refineries and tank farms on your behalf, Europe-wide. In addition, we offer monitoring of train movements, regular provision of up-to-date status information and active incident management. Our mineral oil transports run from the major German and European refineries to around 100 tank farms and industrial centres in Europe. Together with our partners, we offer safe, flexible and individual solutions.

Marshalling yard at a mineral oil tank farm

Spot trains – fast & flexible for short-term transport requests

With spot trains at short notice, we meet the demand of the mineral oil industry for more flexibility combined with a high degree of reliability in logistics. Thanks to the flexible scheduling of spot trains, we can offer our customers immediate assistance in the industry's volatile market environment and thus bridge supply bottlenecks and respond to peaks in demand at short notice. We have developed an industry-specific process for this purpose and connected focus markets across Europe.

More information on spot trains

Train of tank wagons speeds past

Rail logistics for the mineral oil industry

In addition to transport, we also focus on providing further demand-orientated logistics services. Our product portfolio therefore also includes comprehensive value-added services that can be individually combined. For example, we offer to take over your plant logistics, handling the first and last mile of the logistics chain, or take care of customs clearance for international shipments. We also work with you to develop logistics dashboards and other digital solutions for controlling and analysing your data. As part of our equipment management, we take care of procurement, scheduling and damaged vehicle management as well as the provision of special equipment, among other things.

Foreman shunter in safety clothing stands on the ladder of a tank wagon.

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Portrait Gabriele Jansen-Krekels
Portrait Gabriele Jansen-Krekels
Copyright: DB Cargo / Frank Jung

Gabriele Jansen-Krekels

Head of Mineral Oil