Contargo to set up heavy truck charging network in Germany
The German logistics company Contargo is planning to set up the largest private charging network for heavy electric trucks in Germany. In the course of this year, 33 fast chargers are to be set up at 14 locations in the country. Contargo brought the charging infrastructure manufacturer SBRS on board as its technology partner.
The brief company announcement states that the charging points will have a capacity of 250 kW each. Nothing is known about the value of the order. However, it is said to be the “largest single order for private charging infrastructure in Germany to date”. In the truck sector, mind you. The contract partners are Rhenus Trucking, which founded the Duisburg-based container logistics company Contargo in 2004 and is still its shareholder, and the charging infrastructure producer SBRS, which was taken over by Shell.
The chargers at the 14 company sites are intended to enable Contargo to increase its fleet from seven electric trucks so far to 33 in the next few months. Specifically, the company premises in Duisburg, Voerde-Emmelsum, Emmerich, Frankfurt-Ost, Industriepark Frankfurt-Höchst, Gustavsburg, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Koblenz, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Neuss, Weil am Rhein and Wörth will be equipped with the 33 charging points. The partners do not specify exactly how the charging infrastructure will be distributed among these locations.
The private charging infrastructure offensive does not come as a surprise: Contargo and Rhenus Trucking received funding decisions from the German government in June 2022 for 28 battery-powered 44-tonne trucks and the associated charging infrastructure. Rhenus Trucking has since ordered the vehicles and, according to its own information, will “gradually deliver them to its customers and sister company Contargo as a service provider in 2023”. In its statement, the company from Holzwickede did not reveal from which manufacturers the electric truck fleet was ordered.
Contargo was founded in 2004 and bundled the activities of several Rhenus subsidiaries in the field of container hinterland logistics. The company describes itself as a “trimodal” service provider, as it carries out container logistics by road, rail and water.
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