a method of producing hot - rolled strips and hot - rolled profiles from a continuous , continuously casted primary material , in which single slabs are transported from the buffer zone into a ferry which transports them by being transversely displaced from the casting line into the pitch line extending parallel to and spaced form the casting line , where it is stored in an accumulator furnace located parallel to an equalizing furnace and which is offset relative thereto , with the single slabs , upon request , being transported by a ferry from the accumulator furnace into the finishing train for finish - rolling the end product .