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

We have reactivated the Köln-Perpignan P400 shuttle

After a forced stop due to the coronavirus crisis, Hupac reactivates the Köln-Perpignan shuttle with 2 roundtrips per week starting from Monday 27.4.2020. The circulation will be gradually increased to reach the planned frequency of 5 roundtrips per week.

Thanks to this new service, Hupac provides non-stop gateway connections from Cataluña in Spain and the Pyrenean region in France to Köln in the Ruhr area with further connections to Malmö in Sweden and and all relevant Scandinavian destinations.

Find out more in our product flyer!

 

Information and bookings
Shuttle Net West - Team Line 2
Tel. +41 58 8558125
line2@hupac.com

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