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the railway alliance Xrail announces an initiative in order to increase the European rail shipment to complete wagons
A system of reservations for international services will be managed
May 5, 2015
Xrail, the alliance constituted at the beginning of 2010 ( on 18 February 2010) between European railway societies that operate field goods and currently formed from six companies CFL cargo, DB Schenker Rail, Green Cargo, Rail Cargo Group, SBB Cargo and SNCB Logistics, it has announced a new initiative in order to increase the segment of the European rail shipment to complete wagons, field for whose development is constituted the alliance and that it still constitutes the spine of the traffic goods on track with a quota until 30% of the European market and a volume estimated of about 85 billion ton-kilometer.
New initiative XCB (Xrail Capacity Booking) previews that all the associates of Xrail establish a national Network to controlled ability, while a developed central system from Xrail will connect these national systems in order to allow reservations of international services of transport with complete wagon between the railway nets on which they operate the six partner of Xrail. Al moment of the reservation to the shippers will be communicated estimated time of arrival of the train. The experimental phase of implementation of the reservation service is currently in course and the first tests will be carried out the next autumn.
The societies of Xrail have moreover established that by this year the presidency of the railway alliance will be assumed to spin from the associates. To Ferdinand Schmidt, managing of the Austrian Cargo Rail Group that has covered the charge of president of Xrail until from its foundation in February 2010 and to which the members of the association have turned a thanks, are time subentrati Nicolas Perrin, managing director of Helvetian SBB Cargo, and Jan Kilström, managing director of the Swede Green Cargo, that they have assumed respective the charges of president and vice president of Xrail.
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