{"id":1854,"date":"2025-04-11T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/blog\/duisport-agency-streamlines-proposal-process-with-startport-startup-rail-flow\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:16:11","slug":"duisport-agency-streamlines-proposal-process-with-startport-startup-rail-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/blog\/duisport-agency-streamlines-proposal-process-with-startport-startup-rail-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"duisport agency streamlines proposal process with startport startup Rail-Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p><p id=\"\">The startup Rail-Flow welcomes a new client.<\/p><p id=\"\"><em id=\"\">The startport startup Rail-Flow has acquired duisport agency GmbH (dpa) as a client and has since been supporting the subsidiary of Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) in preparing proposals. With Rail-Flow&#8217;s Rail Offer Management, the proposal process is digitized and simultaneously made more efficient. <\/em><\/p><p id=\"\">Containers, general cargo, or bulk goods: Goods are transported worldwide via the Port of Duisburg. dpa is the central sales company of Duisburger Hafen AG for intermodal transport services. <\/p><p id=\"\">This also includes sales tasks, such as creating &#8220;last mile&#8221; offers for shunting services between the Duisburg marshalling yards, such as Duisburg-Rheinhausen or Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen, and the terminals or sidings of the port users. &#8220;Our goal was to reduce manual effort in proposal creation through automated data provision and thus shorten the overall proposal process,&#8221; says Fabian Pfingsten, member of the dpa management board. <\/p><p id=\"\"> <\/p><p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Rail Offer Management reduces workload and shortens proposal processes<\/strong><\/p><p id=\"\">Rail-Flow developed Rail Offer Management, a CRM system tailored to the needs of freight railways. This solution was set up according to dpa&#8217;s specified requirements and needs. As a result, dpa now creates and sends proposals to clients digitally and significantly more efficiently than before. With the introduction of the new system, data from previous inquiries and proposals are now also accessible at any time. &#8220;Rail-Flow&#8217;s Rail Offer Management provides an overview of the entire proposal process and the status of proposals in a single dashboard. It creates a digital single-point-of-truth and ensures compliance for the company,&#8221; says Jonas Lilienthal, Senior Manager Sales &#038; Business Development at Rail-Flow.    <\/p><p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Rail-Flow aims to make rail freight transport more efficient<\/strong><\/p><p id=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rail-flow.com\/\" id=\"\">Rail-Flow<\/a> originated from the fifth batch of startport&#8217;s startup funding program, the innovation platform for logistics and supply chain. The startup simplifies access to European rail freight transport and increases its efficiency. The digital ecosystem developed by Rail-Flow offers, among other things, innovative collaboration and transport management solutions along the entire value chain of rail freight transport. This accelerates processes, strengthens the competitiveness of rail freight transport, and supports the achievement of climate goals through modal shift.   <\/p><p id=\"\">About startport: As a subsidiary of Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport), startport GmbH is committed to initiating a creative innovation culture and actively promoting further development in logistics and supply chain. With this ambition, it supports and challenges young startups that, together with duisport and the companies located here, develop forward-looking ideas for the leading logistics hub in the heart of Europe. <\/p><p id=\"\">\u200d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The startport startup Rail-Flow has acquired duisport agency GmbH (dpa) as a client and has since been supporting the subsidiary of Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) in preparing proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}