Focus areas

Group objectives

  • Market-leading positions on specific major European transport corridors
  • Resilient, competitive and predictable intermodal offerings to a growing customer base
  • Ensuring efficient and competitive rail traction capacity with a balanced portfolio of strategic partners
  • Digital transformation and automation in planning and operations along the intermodal chain, including customers, railway undertakings and third party terminals
  • R&D: continuous development of innovations in wagon technology and terminals
  • Increasing the productivity of intermodal and terminal operations

Market development

  • Focus on the intermodal transport segments of transalpine, long haul (over 600 km in Europe) and maritime transport
  • 30-50% market share on the corridors served
  • Focus on pipeline development with 5-10 and more roundtrips per week
  • Capacity utilisation of trains above 80%
  • Priority on the use of own terminals
  • Strengthening the main transport corridors by investing in terminals

Customers

  • Quality, reliability, stability, cost leadership and competitiveness are the key drivers
  • Automate the contract-to-cash process
  • Standardise digital services and set up a self-service platform for customers
  • ‘Estimated pick-up time’ information for 100% of shipments, with 95% reliability
  • Expand customer base; service for major customers
 

Partners

  • Integrate the planning cycle with strategic partners

  • Establish strong partnerships with multiple rail operators
  • Standardise and automate the purchase-to-payment process with partners
  • Strengthen the digitalisation of operational processes (timetables, disruptions, pick-up times, etc.)
 

Employees

  • Develop young talents into leadership positions
  • Increase the diversity of the workforce, particularly in leadership and management positions
  • Reduce staff turnover in the Group
  • HR leadership development program for 2nd/3rd level managers

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Antwerp <=> Barcelona intermodal connection opens for P400 frigo trailers

Success of test performed on 8-10 November 2022  

It’s the first P400 frigo trailer ever run over the rails between Belgium and Spain. The vehicle owned by Logista Freight has left the Antwerp Combinant terminal on 8.11.2022 on a Hupac train and arrived in Barcelona El Morrot some 48 hours later.

 

As a result of this test, Hupac opens this relation for frigo trailers which play an important role in logistics from/to Spain. “We can now offer P400 intermodal transport solutions for the agriculture and pharmaceutical industry and actively contribute to the modal shift from road to rail”, explains Maurice Pallone, Area Manager of Hupac Intermodal. The offer is also extended to the Hupac service between Perpignan PSCCT and Antwerp Combinant, but vehicle admission is subject to prior verification.

 

We wish to thank all partners who have contributed to the success of this test: Logista Freight as transport company, Fret SNCF as rail company, as well as the terminals El Morrot in Barcelona and Combinant in Antwerp.

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