Transcript Ralf-Charley SCHULTZE

Railway Pro: Investment Summit
THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF
EUROPEAN COMBINED TRANSPORT
Ralf-Charley SCHULTZE
President
BUCHAREST 11-12 October 2016
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The challenge at hand
The Beauty… (?)
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and The Beast
Intermodal/Combined Transport in Europe
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The key to intermodality/comodality: switch to using the ”box”
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Containerisation: the pre-requisite to unlock the benefits Combined Transport
HIGH VALUE
PERISHABLES
OVERSIZED
LIQUIDS
DANGEROUS GOODS
BULK
PALLETS
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Unimodal vs. Intermodal/Combined transport
UNIMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORT
Misses out on advantages:
- energy efficiency,
- labour/infrastructure productivity,
- superior safety and security,
- climate resilience, and
- oustanding environmental peformance.
INTERMODAL / COMBINED TRANSPORT
Efficiently inserts
economically and
ecologically
sustainable modes
of transport into
long(er) distance
transport-chains
to maximise the
benefits for every
stakeholder.
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The challenges of longer distance freight transport
 Climate: CO2 and energy
efficiency
 Environment: air and noise
pollution, vibration
CO2
emissions
Road
degradation
Energy
efficiency
 Public security: oil
dependency
 Safety: accident
injuries/fatalities and
material losses
The answer:
Labour
productivity
 The economy: GDP loss
due to congestion
 Employment: labour
productivity
 Infrastructure: road
degradation and spatial
constraints
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Intermodal
/ Combined
Transport
Congestion
Accidents:
injuries and
fatalities
PM10
pollutants
noise
Oil
dependency
A Challenge to Logistics Professionals and Regulators
Unimodal solution
Intermodality/CT
trucks
trucks
Terminals
road logistics centres
intermodal terminals
Long-haul
road-only
(?megatrucks?)
rail, SSS, IWW
not necessary
prerequisite
business as usual
creative, innovative
thinking
Short-haul (positioning/distribution traffic)
Containerisation (using intermodal loading units)
Consignors, logistics service providers
INTERMODALITY/CT = CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE THINKING IN TRANSPORT
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UIRR - Mission
Grow the pie
through fair competition on the basis of
1) technical merit, as an enabler of economic prosperity
2) the competence (professionalism) of those who organise CT
catalysed by UIRR as the industry association of the sector
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The Combined Transport Strategy
 Equal footing: a level playing field between modes is essential to enable fair
competition (based on technical merit and management excellence)
 Temporary compensatory measures: needed on the basis of a transparent
empirical assessment of disparities (until the level playing field is achieved)
 An infrastructure for freight: TEN-T parametres on the sections of rail
infrastructure used by fregiht trains
 Competitive traction services: transparency within the railway sector to
enable comparison and free competition of traction service providers
 A reduction of complexity: inherent as several players need to collaborate
- technical (national rules, standardisation on EU level, uniform processes),
- harmonised EU legal framework for Combined Transport (Directive 92/106),
- sector best practice guidelines (GTC, dangerous goods, load securing, etc.),
- digitalisation (registers, information sources, support systems, eWaybill, etc.)
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The UIRR Approach
UIRR is an industry association which
- PROMOTES the public understanding
and appreciation of Road-Rail
Combined Transport,
- ENHANCES its development and the
proliferation of industry best practice,
- SUPPORTS the daily operation of
European Combined Transport with a
series of services
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UIRR: 46 years of knowledge and experience
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Promotion • Enhancement • Support
of European Combined Transport
CT Operators (Authorised Applicants) • CT Terminals
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UIRR – Growth rate of Members 1989 – 2015
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EU 2011 Transport White Paper
Shift 30% of long(er) distance road tonne-kilometres realised over distances of 300km or more
by 2030 from trucks to sustainable modes of transport - (electric) rail, inland navigation and
shortsea shipping - which ratio should increase to 50% by 2050*
* on the basis of 2010
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Modal split without SSS (coastal shipping)
=
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Source: TRANSFORuM Project Report on Long Distance Freight, June 2015
”Achievable, even if challenging”
Source: TRANSFORuM Project Report on Long Distance Freight, June 2015
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The outlook
THE RELATIVELY LOW SHARE OF RAIL FREIGHT IN EUROPE
PROMISES A CONSIDERABLE UPSIDE POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH
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THANK YOU
For your attention
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