Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG’s (HHLA) subsidiary METRANS is offering new rail connections between the Baltic Sea, Central Europe and Turkey. As another terminal in the northern hemisphere, Gdansk is now served by METRANS trains. And in the far southeast, already a few kilometres into Asia, the Halkali Terminal close to Istanbul was connected with the METRANS Network. Therefore, the complete rail network is now stretching from Gdansk, Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Wilhelmshaven and Rotterdam in northern Europe to Koper, Trieste, Piraeus and Istanbul in the south. (....)