MEGASWING, YOUR VERY OWN INTER- MODAL TERMINAL.

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1 MEGASWING, YOUR VERY OWN INTER- MODAL TERMINAL. Sdgnss Swingable megatrailer pocket wagon

2 Offer rail transport to all customers and increase rail profits. Use your fleet more efficiently; load an entire train in 30 minutes. Roll-on, roll-off handling shortens turnaround times. Load any semitrailer. Only 5% of European semitrailers can presently be lifted into standard railway pocket wagons. Consequently, a huge market awaits. Moving goods from road to rail benefits everyone, reduces congestion and promotes punctual delivery. Trailblazing logistics on track Megaswing is the new freight wagon that realises a major breakthrough in the long talked about and sought after modal shift from road to rail. Designed by Kockums Industrier, Europe s premier developer of innovative freight wagons, Megaswing is a truly trailblazing platform. Given the environmental benefits, virtually everyone now supports the idea of shifting long-distance road transport to rail. However, rail solutions must also be commercially competitive. Megaswing brings this competitiveness. Megaswing can carry any semitrailer and not just the small percentage that can be lifted onto traditional pocket wagons. This represents a massive expansion in the rail transport market (i.e. 100% of the trailers on European roads not just the present 5%). Furthermore, existing terminals can increase their volumes and market shares by offering an intermodal solution for all semitrailers. Megaswing uses terminals more efficiently and increases profitability. An entire train can be loaded in 30 minutes and a single wagon in less than 3. As terminal tractors can rapidly transfer loads to the open wagon (e.g. from a ferry or another train), intermediate storage is unnecessary. Similarly, there is no need to use shunters loading and unloading can be carried out under overhead contact lines. This eliminates costly train movements to/ from terminals and shortens turnaround times. Megaswing means that loading and unloading can now take place wherever there is a suitable track and trackside area for truck/trailer handling. Your very own terminal can ALL SEMITRAILERS ABOARD Get closer to your end customers. Choose where you load/unload. Respond rapidly to changes in flows of goods and in traffic congestion/possibilities. A terminal can be set up wherever there is a flat area next to the track. be easily set up where it best fits your needs (temporary or permanent). Inconvenient and/or congested container terminals can be avoided. Independent calculations prove that Megaswing is cheaper than traffic that involves traditional terminals, liftable trailers, cranes and pocket wagons. It is also much cheaper than using roads all the way. Over a 500 km oneway distance, costs can be dramatically lowered by EUR 100,000 per trailer per year. Megaswing traffic can be started without any fixed costs other than the wagons themselves. Provided that the trackside area is flat and can carry a loaded trailer, nothing else is required. This means that, at no extra cost, you can easily have a series of loading and unloading points. Locations and routes can be rapidly adapted as your needs change.

3 1. 2. The Megaswing wagon by Kockums Industrier......is now to handle......the future s... AND A NEW LOGISTICS ERA FROM KO The technical perspective Megaswing is innovative in that the wagon separates easily into two sections. The pocket section can be swung out and lowered to the ground. A semitrailer can then be reversed up into the pocket. Once the semitrailer (supported on its landing gear) is released from its truck, the pocket section can be pivoted back into position. This can be done from either side of the wagon. There is a control box at each corner. The entire sequence is completed in less than three minutes. Furthermore, all wagons in a train can be loaded simultaneously. Megaswing s only requirement is a fairly flat trackside area. This must be able to take a pressure equivalent to that exerted by the landing gear of a fully loaded semitrailer and must not be more than 150 mm below the top of the rail head. The wagon s movable parts are operated by a hydraulic system. To prevent oil leaks, this is internally closed. Hydraulic power is generated by an electric pump. At any of its four corners, a wagon can be connected to a power source. Several successive wagons can form a single electric circuit. Connection can thus be rapidly made to the last or first wagon in a series. A 400 V, 3-phase, 50 Hz power source is required. The tare weight for a 4-axled wagon is just under 24 tonnes. This means that any fully loaded trailer allowed on European roads can be loaded, carried and unloaded without any help from external equipment (e.g. cranes or reach stackers). Megaswing is suitable for all trailers cranable or not.

4 3....ready logistics. CKUMS INDUSTRIER. Available as single (4-axled) or DUO (6-axled) Megaswing can, just like a standard pocket wagon, handle combinations of containers and swap bodies logistics planning at its most flexible! The investment perspective Although a Megaswing wagon is somewhat more expensive than an old-fashioned solution, the net cost of wagon and terminal handling is considerably lower and your market share of the trailer fleet will increase from 5% to 100%. Further strengthening Megaswing s advantages, terminal waiting times and transport to and from inconvenient terminals must also be considered. Similarly, the flexibility and risk reduction of not being forced to invest in new terminals has to be included in cost-benefit analyses. Megaswing gives the ability to bypass congested terminals and get any trailer aboard a train. It is the breakthrough that will accelerate the modal shift from road to rail. Politically and commercially, it blazes the trail for many years of profitable freight handling. Megaswing begins a new era in logistics!

5 THE MEGASWING WAGON IN BRIEF Can carry non-cranable trailers (gain 95% of the market). Can carry all semitrailer types. Allows direct loading of megatrailers. Allows individual wagon unloading in coupled trains. Puts goods on tracks instead of in terminal queues. Exploits better slot times by avoiding congested track points. Enables loading and unloading at own trackside warehouse rather than at a container terminal. Brings cost savings (e.g. no lifting costs at terminals). Avoids temporary harbour storage (tug master takes trailer direct from ferry to wagon). Enables loading/unloading of whole train in 30 minutes (instead of 3 hours). Enables loading/unloading under overhead contact lines (no shunting faster turnaround). Accelerates turnaround unload in 3 minutes, load in 5. Takes goods further by rail and closer to customers (e.g. industrial estates). Avoids accidental delays (e.g. trailer removal from wagon with wheel damage). Increases flexibility loading/unloading at hotspots requires only a flat trackside area. Exploits terminals where the ground cannot take the wheel pressure from trucks. Offers minimum investment costs (e.g. in terminals). Reduces handling damage/wear (e.g. no lifting of trailers). Has a 270 mm load pocket same height as the most recent pocket wagons. Can be used throughout Europe (G1 load profile). Megaswing is your very own intermodal terminal!

6 Single (4-axled) DUO (6-axled) MEGASWING WAGON DATA Sdgnss Swingable megatrailer pocket wagon Single (4-axled) Length over buffers: 19,480 mm Distance between bogie pivots: 14,750 mm Load height, container: 1,155 mm Load height, pocket: 270 mm Pocket width: 2,714 mm Wheel diameter, new: 920 mm Kingpin support heights: 880, 980, 1,130 mm Tare weight: 23.8 tonnes Max. wheel set load: 22.5 tonnes Max. payload: 66.2 tonnes Max. speed: 120 km/h Minimum curve radius: 75 m Ferry boat capability: 2 30 Loading gauge: G1 DUO (6-axled) Length over buffers: 34,030 mm Distance between bogie pivots: 2 14,200 Load height, container: 1,155 mm Load height, pocket: 270 mm Pocket width: 2,714 mm Wheel diameter, new: 920 mm Kingpin support heights: 880, 980, 1,130 mm Tare weight: 38 tonnes Max. wheel set load: 22.5 tonnes Max. payload: 97 tonnes Max. speed: 120 km/h Minimum curve radius: 75 m Ferry boat capability: 2 30 Loading gauge: G1 Kockums Industrier is northern Europe s leading manufacturer of specially designed railway wagons for freight transport. With 100 employees, the company has a turnover of SEK 315 million. Autolink, LKAB, Green Cargo, Auto Transport Service, EWS and the Swedish National Rail Administration are just some of our customers. In June 2007, we acquired SweMaint. Possessing a well-developed network of strategically located workshops, SweMaint is Scandinavia s leading repair and maintenance company in the freight wagon sector. The acquisition was an industrially logical leap forward in making freight transport by rail even more competitive. With almost 350 employees, the new company group will have a turnover of around SEK 700 million. Stora Varvsgatan 14, SE Malmö. Tel: Fax: info@kockumsindustrier.se consum 2010