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

Contact

Antwerp Combinant ↔ Zeebrugge CLdN: Expanding intermodal network for UK & Europe

Hupac is launching a new rail service between Antwerp Combinant and Zeebrugge CLdN terminals, enabling connection to/from UK via the CLdN short sea service. The shuttle train will run with a frequency of 5 roundtrips per week. Start-up is 27 February 2023.

 

With this new connection our network based on Antwerp & Zeebrugge will allow to link all main European economic areas: 

  • Barcelona (Spain)
  • Perpignan (France)
  • Gadki, Brwinów (Poland)
  • Duisburg DKT & DIT, Schwarzheide, Ludwigshafen (Germany)
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Ploiesti (Romania)
  • Halkali (Turkey)
  • Novara, Busto Arsizio (Italy)

 

To meet strong market demand, the frequency of the Zeebrugge CLdN / Antwerp Combinant <=> Ludwigshafen KTL service will be increased from 5 to 6 departures per week.

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