DB Schenker Rail, TX Logistik, SBB Cargo and BLS Cargo anticipate a common position for the development of European the railway corridors goods



Today to Berlin the managing directors of four important European railway societies goods, two Germans DB Schenker Rail and TX Logistik and two Swisses SBB CFF FFS Cargo and BLS Cargo, have anticipate a common position regarding the requirements of the railway field regarding the development of defined the railway corridors goods from the EU commission.

The four enterprises have emphasized that, in consideration of the fact that the forecasts of increase of the European rail shipment of the goods regard mainly the transboundary corridors, as the Genoa-Rotterdam Corridor, it is important to eliminate the infrastructural throttlings along such lines. Such Corridor - they have found - constitutes one of the more important lines of the European railway net and is therefore on that the attention of the four railway companies has been focused. In particular - they have explained DB Schenker Rail, TX Logistik, SBB CFF FFS Cargo and BLS Cargo - along the Genoa-Rotterdam Corridor the throttlings are to Oberhausen, Basel, Chiasso and Milan.

"The new infrastructure of the Betuwe line, the tunnel of the Lötschberg and the tunnel of base of Saint Gottardo - it has specified the BLS managing director Cargo, Dirk Stahl - must be connected in order to create a efficient corridor end-to-end. Moreover the relative necks of bottle to the ability must be limited".

"The improvement of the efficiency of the corridor - it has added the managing director of DB Schenker Rail, Alexander Hedderich - involves numerous investments in infrastructures. The work of construction and the information on these works must be co-ordinate to international level in order to maintain the top quality possible of the service".

According to the four railway societies, the ability can be increased if priority is given also to the freight trains, if the operating processes are harmonized and if the railway traces are defined based on the requirements of the market. "Besides these operating challenges - it has observed the CEO of TX Logistik, Karl Michael Mohnsen - it is absolutely necessary that the burden of the costs comes fixed so as to guarantee the competitiveness of the rail shipment".

According to DB Schenker Rail, TX Logistik, SBB CFF FFS Cargo and BLS Cargo, in the attempt to improve the economic efficiency, any new infrastructure would have to be generally planned for being able to be used from trains of 1.500 meters.

Moreover it would be necessary to simplify and to improve the processes to the aim to diminish the number of operating pauses. In particular, the interoperability - they have emphasized the four societies - is essential for the railway enterprises to the aim to remain competitive on the road regarding the transport: "the railway operators - he has found the managing director of SBB CFF FFS Cargo, Nicolas Perrin - continue to fight with different national norms, as the various procedures of homologation and the various security systems. This is translate in additional costs that reduce in transport transboundary advantages of the track. This goes clearly against the objective of a open market in Europe and on the road puts the rail shipment in condition of disadvantage regarding the transport".