Intercontainer-Interfrigo
Intercontainer-Interfrigo SA (ICF) was an internationally active logistics service provider. The company had its operational headquarters in Basel and its legal headquarters in Brussels. Intercontainer specialized in intermodal container based transport. Intercontainer was created by the principal national railway companies of Europe, and these continued to be its principal shareholders, as well as being principal suppliers of traction and network access to the European national rail networks.
Die Intercontainer-Interfrigo SA (ICF) war ein international tätiger Logistikdienstleister. Das Unternehmen mit operativem Hauptsitz in Basel und juristischem Sitz in Brüssel war auf den europäischen unbegleiteten Kombinierten Verkehr spezialisiert.
In 2007 Intercontainer-Interfrigo SA employed approximately 100 staff, and achieved a turnover of €140 Million, with a traffic volume equivalnet to 415,800 Standard TEU (unit)s. By this time the volume was split between transport to and from sea ports, and transport between land-locked logistics centres, approximately in the ratio 50:50.
Intercontainer-Interfrigo beschäftigte rund 100 Mitarbeiter und erwirtschaftete 2007 bei einem Verkehrsvolumen von 415‘800 Standardcontainern einen Umsatz von 140 Millionen Euro. Das Verkehrsvolumen teilte sich in etwa zur Hälfte auf den Verkehr von und nach den Seehäfen sowie auf reinen Festlandverkehr auf.
History
Intercontainer was established, originally, as a not for profit cooperative partnership between prponcipal European rail companies, in 1967. In 1993 the business acquired and operations were pushed together with those of another not for profit cooperative partnership called Interfrigo which had been founded in 1949 and specialised in timely refrigerated rail transport of high volume goods, notably bananas carried from the port of Rotterdam to principal European markets such as Germany and Switzerland. The resulting combination now became known as Intercontainer-Interfrigo. In 2003 the company was converted into an "Aktiengesellschaft" (a form of Joint-stock company) as defined under Belgian law.[1][2]
Das Unternehmen wurde 1967 von europäischen Bahngesellschaften unter dem Namen Intercontainer in der Rechtsform einer Genossenschaft gegründet. Mit der 1993 erfolgten Übernahme der 1949 gegründeten Genossenschaft Interfrigo wurde das Unternehmen in Intercontainer-Interfrigo umbenannt. 2003 wurde Intercontainer-Interfrigo in eine Aktiengesellschaft nach belgischem Recht umgewandelt.
On 26 November 2010 the owners placed the business in liquidation with the stated intention of minimizing disruption to customers by transferring operation of the company's 145 or so weekly trains to the rail companies themselves.
Am 26. November 2010 wurde die Liquidation des Unternehmens mit dem Ziel beschlossen, dass das vorhandene Angebot von 145 wöchentlichen Zügen durch den Erwerber fortgeführt wird.