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

Mathias Leiner joins the management team of ERS Railways

On 1 October 2022, Mathias Leiner, 44, will start as second managing director at ERS Railways. In this position, he will take over the management of the Hamburg-based intermodal transport operator together with managing director Bernd Decker.

 

Mathias Leiner holds a degree in business administration and brings 15 years of management experience in the field of transport and logistics services. He has been at home in the world of rail freight transport and especially combined transport since the very beginning. Mathias Leiner: "I have known ERS for many years as a dynamic company with professional employees and a strong customer structure. Through the integration of ERS into the Hupac Group and the resulting synergies, I see great potential for the further development of the company."

 

Mathias Leiner is taking over the areas of business development and operations and is looking forward to the new tasks: "More intermodal transport for a more climate-friendly world – together we can further develop the system and contribute to the growth of our industry with ever more efficient solutions."

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