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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Hupac upgrades its production team

Chiasso headquarters: dedicated teams for traffic management around the clock as of 1 December 2020

Running a network with more than 100 trains per day is our work-life challenge. Our productional backbone is the management of complexity – and new challenges are ahead: 

  • The new P400 network via Gotthard will boost traffic volume.
  • The large number of construction works on the rail lines are day-to-day disturbers.
  • Traffic flows have to run in the most efficient way in order to compensate for decreasing subsidies on Swiss transit routes and to satisfy customer expectations.

 

All this needs to be integrated into our value chain: railways organizing reserves, infrastructure managers who find re-routings, terminals that reorganize slots in case of delays. In the middle of everything: our production teams.

 

As of 1 December, Hupac Intermodal upgrades its Production & Dispatching department based in Chiasso. Operations will be managed by four teams composed of three collaborators each. They operate in regular shifts around the clock, 7 days per week, 12 months per year, with the task of coordinating train movements with our rail partners as well as with the terminals.

 

The new set-up will increase responsiveness and proactivity of our traffic management. “All teams are composed of two collaborators and a team leader”, says Silvio Ferrari, director Production & Dispatching of Hupac Intermodal. “Whenever an irregularity happens on our network – and be it in the middle of the night of a bank holiday – we are prepared to act, to decide and to coordinate with all stakeholders.”

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