An Übergabegüterzug is a goods train that moves individual goods wagons on the first or last stage of their journey i.e. from the start to the first railway hub or from the final railway hub to its destination. Between hubs the wagons are hauled by Nahgüterzüge

Nahgüterzug

A Nahgüterzug is the name given to a category of local goods train in German-speaking countries. It describes a type of goods train that, unlike the Durchgangsgüterzug - does not stay together for its entire journey; instead wagons can be added or dropped off at intermediate stations en route...

(Ng), i.e. local goods trains, or Durchgangsgüterzüge

Durchgangsgüterzug

A Durchgangsgüterzug is a category of German train that describes a goods train that runs directly to its destination with the same train formation. No shunting takes place at intermediate stations and it is usually a unit train...

(through goods trains). These trains generally cover relatively short distances and only have a few wagons that are delivered to and collected from industrial or loading sidings, either individually or in so-called wagon groups.

These days the classic categories of goods trains no longer really exist, rather the Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

's regional goods trains are more like a mixture of Üg and Ng trains. They are referred to by the DB as Cargobedienung (CB, i.e. cargo service) trains.