About Optimodal

Basic Principles

Optimodal Nederland B.V. is a neutral logistics provider, whose strength is the container-transport into the European hinterland by rail, water and road. The execution of services as a reliable agent for rail-operators completes the portfolio.

The company has been founded in 1992 and is situated in Rotterdam. The shareholders of the unlisted company are DB Cargo Nederland NV with 24.3 percent of the shares, as well as Kombiverkehr Intermodal Services AG, Basel who owns 75.7 percent.

With the help of our sister company Kombiverkehr Intermodal Services GmbH, Hannover, we do operate an agency in Neuss since January 2009. In 2016 an additional agency has been established in Germany’s biggest port, Hamburg.

Together with our environmental- and quality-driven customers, we do pursue the great goal, to develop the range of product- and service for the multimodal container operation. In order to guarantee the greatest possible flexibility and reliability, we cooperate with leading and established partners in the intermodal transport world. This results in the outstanding feature of connecting almost all European industrial locations with the western ports.

Our Mission

It is our highest claim that you can rely on the reliable handling of the transport of your containers without restrictions. Our experienced experts in Rotterdam and the agencies in Neuss and Hamburg are personally committed to you. We grow with our customers and optimise our professionalism.

Our aim is to cover long distances with the environmentally friendly modes of transport rail and inland waterways and, if possible, to only cover the first and last mile by truck.

Together with our customers we thus make a significant contribution to the preservation of our planet.

For our children and for our future!

Our Ethics

This order should remind us of the most important characteristics of our interpersonal relationships and the social behaviour of all people around us and encourage us to behave as every individual employee of our company and also our customers may expect from us. We therefore jointly strive to carry out our professional activities in accordance with these guidelines and thus make an important contribution to safeguarding and developing the continued existence of Optimodal Nederland B.V.

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Our Shareholders

The shares of the non-listed company are held by DB Cargo Nederland N.V., Utrecht with 24.3 percent and Kombiverkehr Intermodal Services AG, Basel with 75.7 percent.

The members of the Supervisory Board actively support the managing directors.

Heiko Krebs – Chairman
Production Manager
Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co KG

Armin Riedl
Managing Director
Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co KG

Frank Erschkat
Manager Intermodal Sales Division
DB Cargo AG

DB Cargo Nederland NV

Kombiverkehr Intermodal Services AG

Our Management

We represent competence, loyalty, reliability and continuity.

Karsten Scheidhauer
Managing Director

Rémon Kerkhof
Deputy Managing Director

Sven Steffens
Branch Manager Hamburg

Bernd Jäniche
Branch Manager Neuss

David Wientjes
Supervisor Operations Rotterdam

Hasan Yetiskin
Supervisor Operations Neuss

Katja Benteler
Operations Manager

Our Partners

Partnership – For Optimodal not just a meaningless phrase, but a word with great relevance.

Our partners help us to keep the promised reliability of our services at the highest level. We would like to thank:

KombiRail Europe B.V.

HTS Group

Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft

für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co. KG

Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft

für kombinierten Güterverkehr mbH & Co. KG

Neuss Trimodal GmbH

Schweizerzug AG

Figures, Data, Facts

18.3

Turnover in Mio.*

Team members*

78,986

Transports in TEU*

* (Status 31.12.2019)

Charity

Do good and talk about it!

Most people in Western Europe are on the sunny side of life.

We greatly appreciate our high quality of life and do not forget the people who are not always positively affected by fate.

Therefore, we are strongly committed to children who are not on the sunny side of life, but more in the shadow of life.

We take our good fortune as an opportunity to distribute some of this and support less financially but with great engagement two foundations whose main focus is on supporting children.

Our engagement is not only to the Herman Van Veen Foundation, but also to the Dapper Kind Foundation.