This report is the first deliverable of the project Intermodal Rail Freight Twin Hub Network Northwest Europe. We call its subject Twin hub network and the organisational entity to carry out the actions the Twin hub project. The project is funded by INTERREG NWE (programme IVb). Its work started in December 2011 and will end by the end of 2015. The project budget was, when the project started, about 5,7 million Euros, to be spent in 4 years’ time. The project consists of analytical and designing actions and of the project pilot. The latter is the centre of the project. It is to prove to which extent the theoretical concept can work in practice. Most of the project budget is earmarked for the actions within or related to the pilot.