DB Schenker—which now owns Britain’s EWS train operating company— has just transported the 15,000th block train between Audi’s plant in Ingolstadt and its Hungarian production site in Györ (reports eyefortransport.com).

Since spring 1997, three train-pairs have travelled the 650 km route at eight-hour intervals every day.

While just-in-time supplies for engine and vehicle production and car bodies are transported to the plant in Györ, complete automobiles and engines are sent in the opposite direction to the Ingolstadt hub. Numerous Audi and VW sites are supplied through Ingolstadt.

Trains weigh up to 1,400 tonnes each.

The logistics concept that DB Schenker has designed for Audi also includes cross-border incident management, including all railroads involved along with marshalling services at Audi sites: Railion Deutschland at Ingolstadt and Railion subsidiary Logistic Center Hungaria (LCH) in Györ.