HHLA reveals new booking portal for intermodal traffic

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has launched a new booking portal to simplify access to intermodal traffic.

Known as Modility, the portal is being created as a provider-neutral corporate spin-off to help shape the digital future of intermodal transport and promote the access to climate-friendly intermodal shipments.

As a booking and brokerage portal, Modility seeks to connect intermodal operators’ available transport capacities with the transport needs of freight forwarders. The portal focuses on combined road/rail transport throughout Europe.

“We are working together with customers and partners to develop a new digital hub which will help shape the transport flows of the future. HHLA regards itself as the initiator of a portal delivering new digital potential which will benefit many players in the logistics sector. The close cooperation ensures that the ideas and interests of intermodal transport market participants are taken into account,” said Angela Titzrath, Chairwoman of HHLA’s Executive Board.

HHLA is working together with cooperation and development partners from different segments of the transport and freight-forwarding industry, including the International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR), to develop a solution by the market for the market.

Lars Neumann, Director of Logistics, Strategy and Business Development HHLA said, “We’re currently focusing on needs-based further development of the application. We are in dialogue with prospective customers, potential users and pilot customers to ensure Modility takes the different needs into account and will meet market requirements when it goes live.”

The new website www.modility.com provides an initial impression of its functions.