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

New connection Antwerp HTA <=> Novara CIM

Hupac is diversifying its network Belgium <=> Italy by launching a new connection between Antwerp HTA and Novara CIM. The terminal offers gateway connections to Pescara/Manoppello and Bari with profile C70/P400, as well as to Rome/Pomezia with limited profile only for containers and swaps.

 

As of 25/26 April, the traffic between north-west Italy and Antwerp HTA will be served by the following shuttle trains:

  • 3 roundtrips/week Antwerp HTA <=> Novara CIM
  • 12 roundtrips/week Antwerp HTA <=> Busto Arsizio

 

The Terminal Novara CIM is managed by Combiconnect, a Hupac Group company. In the coming years, the capacity and performance of the plant will be massively increased by an extensive upgrading programme.

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