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

Hupac Intermodal Forum "Go intermodal. Go digital"

Annual Event - 17 May 2019, Como

Programme and speeches

 

Opening

Hans-Jörg Bertschi, President of Hupac Ltd

 

Presentation

"Innovative tank containers" - Thorsten Bieker, Vice President Rail, BASF

 

Keynote

"10 things you need to know about the future -  and what they may   mean for the future of transportation" - Gerd Leonhard, futurist, humanist, CEO The Futures Agency 

 

Panel discussion  

Michail Stahlhut, CEO Hupac Intermodal
Guido Pietro Bertolone, CEO Arcese Trasporti
Leo Brand, CIO Vopak
Nicolas Perrin, CEO SBB Cargo
Thorsten Bieker, Vice President Rail, BASF

Keith Dierkx, IBM Global Industry Leader for Freight, Logistic and Rail

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