The three Swiss logistics and freight companies Contargo AG, Hupac AG and SBB Cargo AG established Gateway Basel Nord AG in June 2015.
The company, with its head office in Basel, is planning and building the container terminal for import/export transport in partnership with Port of Switzerland.
Investors/project management for the bimodal terminal (road/rail):
Gateway Basel Nord AG
Contargo
With an annual transport volume of 2 million TEU, Contargo is one of the largest container logistics networks in Europe. Contargo integrates container transport between the western seaports, the German North Sea ports and the European hinterland. The enterprise has 24 container terminals at its disposal in Germany, France and Switzerland and maintains offices at seven additional locations in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Contargo also operates its own barge and rail lines.
Hupac
Hupac is the leading operator of intermodal freight services through Switzerland and one of the market leaders in Europe. Hupac operates 100 trains between the major economic centres of Europe and between ports and their hinterland. The volume of traffic in 2016 came to around 737,000 lorryloads. The Hupac Group comprises 17 companies based in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Russia and China and employs some 400 people.
SBB Cargo
Accounting for 25% of Switzerland's total freight traffic, SBB Cargo is the market leader in the Swiss freight sector. Wagonload freight services are the backbone of the Swiss freight business. In recent years the company has been increasingly active in intermodal transport in Switzerland and makes a major contribution to the collection and distribution of container consignments via sidings and regional terminals in Switzerland. In 2019 SBB Cargo transported 5979 net tonne-kilometres with 2,220 employees.
Board of Directors of Gateway Basel Nord AG
Martin Haller
SBB Cargo AG
Holger Bochow
Contargo AG
Raven Schäfer
SBB Cargo AG
Renzo Capanni
Hupac Intermodal AG
Project management terminal
SBB Cargo AG
Raven Schäfer
Investors/project management for Dock Basin 3:
Port of Switzerland
Port of Switzerland
Port of Switzerland is the gateway to the world's oceans. More than 10 percent of all imports arriving in Switzerland that come in via the Rhine from seaports such as Rotterdam, Antwerp and Amsterdam are transferred in Basel, Birsfelden and Muttenz. Here you will find large grain silos, storage facilities for petrol and other petroleum products and high stacks of containers. Around 100 firms work here to facilitate an important part of the Swiss export trade.
Hans-Peter Hadorn
Director, Port of Switzerland
Project Manager for Dock Basin 3
Port of Switzerland
Florian Röthlingshöfer