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 at the “Intermodal Marketplace 2023” of Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Hupac participates in the Intermodal Marketplace to be held on 9 November 2023 at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. The event is an ideal opportunity to discuss our customers' needs and to present our solutions for intermodal transport to/from Belgium.

 

In today's challenging environment of traffic disruptions and market instability, Hupac is constantly striving to find optimal solutions for intermodal transport throughout Europe and beyond.

 

Antwerp is the very heart of the Hupac network, with 100 trains per week reaching a large number of destinations in Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Poland and the Far East. In addition, our network offers a dozen of connections per week between Zeebrugge and Italy.

 

Programme

14:00    Marketplace with Hupac stand

14:30    Welcome & introduction

18:00    Walking dinner

 

Join our Sales & Operations team at the Antwerp Intermodal Marketplace!

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