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

Gotthard: limitations only for few days

Starting from Sunday evening, freight traffic is expected to start again on the Gotthard line. In the meantime the Hupac trains are diverted via the Lötschberg/Simplon axis. Only the domestic connections Basel <=> Chiasso and Aarau <=> Stabio can’t be operational at present.

                   

The authorities concerned have taken all measures in order to support rail freight traffic at best:

  • Infrastructure managers in Germany, Switzerland and Italy work together closely in order to offer the maximum capacity for international freight traffic despite the Gotthard line interruption
  • Planned track works on the Simplon axis have been postponed
  • Capacities in Domodossola II shunting station have been increased by putting additional locomotives into operation and by reinforcing shunting teams
  • International railway companies join their forces with the aim to reach the highest possible capacity
  • Customs offices in Domodossola II will take up 24-hour service if needed.   

Delays may occur up to the complete processing of the residual trains, but starting from Monday 19.11.2012 the situation is expected to turn back to normality within few days.

 

Our customer team is at disposal round the clock for further information.

 

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