Hafen Nürnberg-Roth GmbH, as the management company of bayernhafen Nürnberg, and as the railway infrastructure company, provides its tenants and customers with a performance-ready port rail infrastructure with a signal box and a total of 51 km platform length.

The railway infrastructure is, in the case of full trains, directly connected to the Deutsche Bahn long-distance network, as well as in the case of single-carriage transportation through the Nuremberg Railway Yard. Through extension measures to the Port Railway Station, full trains with a length of 700 m can travel in and out. Almost all of the lots in the Western and Eastern part of bayernhafen, as well as all quay facilities, have a rail connection to the port railway.

In 2006, Hafen Nürnberg-Roth GmbH implemented the new construction of a trimodal handling facility for Combined Transport (CT). On 15.12.2009, the Nuremberg terminal of the DB located in the Nuremberg innercity was moved to bayernhafen Nürnberg in the context of a second extensive construction step. In the final construction step, this CT handling facility already has a handling capacity of up to 330,000 loading units (480,000 TEU) per year. (Further information on the new CT handling facility can be found here).

bayernhafen Nürnberg profits, due to its outstanding infrastructural equipment and transport connection, from the liberalisation of rail transport. As well as Deutsche Bahn / Railion, many other private railway transportation companies (RTCs) are now using the port railway infrastructure.   

In order to be “armed” for the railway-connected container transportation, as well as the distribution potential of the road to the rail, Hafen Nürnberg-Roth GmbH permanently invests in the extension and the maintenance of the railway infrastructures and service provisions. So in August 2007, a partial electrification was carried out. Since then, RTCs can come in without a traction change from the Eibach Railway Station (connection track switch 63) to the port railway station (track switch 17). A further electrification to the CT handling facility was implemented in parallel with the putting to work of the 2nd module and the new Northern connections of the terminal, as well as their electrification.

Further information on the port railway and the infrastructure use contract can be obtained from our Railway Instructions.