Trains Transport Huge Elements for New Stadium

DB Schenker Rail has begun transporting 72 concrete elements that will be used to build a new soccer stadium for the 2012 European Soccer Championship. They are being moved by rail from Neumark in Upper Palatinate, Germany, to Wroclaw, Poland for the German construction company Max Bögl.

The concrete elements are up to 37 meters apiece and weigh as much as 100 tons. They are being used to build a new soccer stadium that is being built for the 2012 European Soccer Championship.

DB Schenker Rail will use six block trains to transport the shipments, which will total 6,000 metric tons all told. Heavy-lift cranes will load the trains in Neumark. The trains cross the Polish border at Zgorzelec/Görlitz and then travel on to Wroclaw Kuzniki. The cargoes will be moved to trucks for the last leg of the journey to the stadium site.

The first shipment left on Aug. 20 and the last one is scheduled to depart at the end of September.