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Without a revolution in intermodal technology, Europe will run out of space for inland terminal capacity, according to veteran rail freight executive Gerhard Oswald.

Speaking at last week’s Container Trade Europe event in Hamburg, Mr Oswald, founder of intermodal solutions developer Gomultimodal, said that recent and projected growth in container volumes in North European sea ports was putting increasing pressure on the continent’s inland rail facilities.

In the southern German market, rail accounts for over 50% of the traffic to and from ...