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

KV4.0 Data Hub goes live with partners

New website www.dx-intermodal.com provides information on range of services

Frankfurt am Main, 19. April 2023   Following the successful go-live of the KV4.0 Data Hub in March, the first partners have started to exchange production data to improve transparency in the supply chain. The new Data Hub connects all players in combined transport for the first time.

 

DXI customers, which include carriers, intermodal operators, terminals and railways, began exchanging real-time data via the KV4.0 Data Hub in March. The Data Hub is based on the #EDIGES data exchange standard and provides access to timetables, bookings, terminal status and train movements, as well as pre- and post-carriage on the road. Data exchange is real-time and barrier-free, but always within an authorised distribution circle. The one-time technical connection to the KV4.0 Data Hub also enables the exchange of forecast data with participating partners, such as Estimated Time of Pick-up (ETP), to improve supply chain visibility. Interested parties can find detailed information on the company's range of services on the new website www.dx-intermodal.com.

 

DXI is the name of the new company for the use of the KV4.0 Data Hub, which for the first time connects all players in combined transport in terms of data technology. The shareholders are the combined transport operators Hupac and Kombiverkehr, the transport companies Hoyer and Paneuropa, the railway company Lokomotion and the Kombiterminal Ludwigshafen. The company founded at the end of June 2022, emerged from the research project "Digitalisation of intermodal supply chains – KV4.0", which created a cross-system data platform for combined transport.

 

Contacts

Christoph Büchner, Tel. +49 69 79505 144, cbuechner@kombiverkehr.de

Aldo Puglisi, Tel. +41 58 8558091, Mob. +41 79 9325373, apuglisi@hupac.com

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