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 say goodbye to Sascha Altenau

A sad day. After a short period of suffering, Sascha Altenau passed away unexpectedly and far too early on 12 March 2023. Our condolences go especially to his family and loved ones.

 

Sascha Altenau, born in 1966, had been working for Hupac since 1998: first as Operations Manager of the RU of Hupac GmbH, since 2006 as Director of Hupac GmbH as well as Co-Director of TSG Terminal Singen GmbH and for the last few months also as Director of Combiconnect Cologne North. He has shaped the development of our German locations like no other.

 

His functions in the Hupac Group will be taken over on an interim basis by the following colleagues:

Piero Solcà for Hupac GmbH

Contact: psolca@hupac.com, Tel. +41 58 8558200

Simone Croci Torti for TSG Terminal Singen GmbH

Contact: scrocitorti@hupac.com, Tel. +41 58 8558250

Michael Maiocchi for Combiconnect Köln GmbH

Contact: mmaiocchi@hupac.com, Tel. +41 58 8558081

 

With his infectious laugh and his special sense of humour, with his wonderful way of giving people a home in the company, with his tireless commitment to the good cause and with his absolute reliability, he will always remain in our memories.

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