Consulting services for companies

Free initial consultation

The free initial consultation is aimed at

• Companies with their own rail connection that need support in maintaining or expanding their infrastructure or want to make the connection available to third-party users
• Companies without a rail connection that want to use rail as a mode of transport in the future, either by establishing their own rail access or by using (public) loading points/tracks or combined transport facilities.

The initial consultation is provided by an external specialist agency from the Hanover region. The costs for the initial consultation are covered by the Hanover region.

Since there are significant supraregional interdependencies, particularly in combined transport, companies from neighboring districts can also take advantage of this consulting service to a limited extent and in justified cases.

The offer is intended as "coaching" – i.e., help for self-help – and cannot replace management consulting with profitability calculations.

Coaching content

Among other things, companies learn

• which infrastructures provide or could be created to access rail transport in the Hanover region
• which logistics service providers are active in rail freight transport and can organize pre- and post-carriage in combined transport (road/rail transshipment), and
• what subsidies may be available.

The aim is to identify and initiate alternatives and complementary options to truck transport in order to shift more traffic from trucks to rail. This means maintaining the existing rail connections, expanding combined transport services, and increasing the volume of goods transported by single wagon and combined transport.

In 2017, the Economic Development Agency of the Hannover Region commissioned a study to determine the potential for shifting freight transport from trucks to rail.The results can be found here.