Our Vision

BoxTango aims to offer sustainable, efficient and affordable transport options in order to shift freight transport from road to rail. We believe that the full potential of rail transport is yet to be tapped. In view of accelerated global warming, it is urgent to speed up this transformation. Against this background, BoxTango operates train connections, maintains a transfer site in Ostrach and offers dispositions in intermodal transport. BoxTrucking, an affiliate company of BoxTango, ensures safe and just-in-time transport on the last mile.

Besides operating train routes and maintaining a transfer site, BoxTango makes intense efforts to develop new transfer and shunting technologies which are ought to contribute to a smoother and more efficient process within inter-modal transport. Handling containers as easy as commuters change platforms at train stations – this idea is the guiding star to BoxTango. Only if transfer from rail to road and vice versa becomes time-efficient and more convenient to the customer, the full potential of rail freight transport can be exploited.

Our History

The BoxTango GmbH was founded in 2011 by the current managing director Martin Burkhardt. Originally, we focused on the development of a new handling technology in the area of intermodal transport but we soon recognized the huge unsatisfied demand for more rail freight services. Due to the extensive experience of our managing director in these traffics, BoxTango decided to expand its business field by entering this market.

For this purpose, we opened a second branch in Ostrach, southern Germany. As a decommissioned transshipment point, the transfer site was ideally suited for our entry into this business area. In order to make it ready for operation, we paved the ground, built office-containers and acquired a reach-stacker. Thanks to this reopening in Ostrach, we are now able to serve a region which was previously poorly served by intermodal transportation. As a consequence, CO2-emissions can be reduced and a more environmentally friendly transport chain is achieved.

In addition to maintaining transports via Ostrach, we have been offering timber transports in northern Germany since 2018 and container transports from the port of Hamburg to the Lake Constance region since 2019. In order to offer our customers the most complete package possible, we broadened our product range by founding the BoxTrucking GmbH in summer 2019. We are now able to offer a one-stop shop solution, which is especially well-suited for connections between German seaports and the Lake Constance region.

At the moment, we are working on new intermodal connections in the region of Belgium, Austria and Germany. We plan to further expand our activities in the field of timber transport. For the future we aim to focus on the development of a new handling technology as well as on the opening of further transshipment points.