The EU Commission has decided to transform the “Railfreightlocations.eu” portal into a Europe-wide standard instrument for information on rail service facilities, appointing HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH and its European partners to conduct the project’s development. After a successful pilot phase, the project will be extended by including all kinds of rail service facilities such as marshalling yards, maintenance facilities and fuelling stations. The portal, which has been available online as a pilot version since October 2015, currently includes more than 3,700 locations throughout Europe, including intermodal terminals, rail logistics centres (Railports) as well as public and private sidings.
“Railfreightlocations.eu” shall offer all service facility operators a comfortable and low-cost opportunity to comply with the obligation to publish and update information about their facilities in accordance with the relevant EU regulations as well as to publish further information about their facilities and the services they offer.
Thus, shippers, rail operators and further rail logistics companies will get a single source of information for all market-relevant facility data and services. In addition to the technical development of the portal and the initial data collection, recommendations for a business and governance model will also be developed for a future permanent use of the portal. The project will take approximately one year and aims to be completed in May 2019.
The initiative is supported by the main European rail industry associations. In addition to HaCon, the International Rail Freight Business Association (IBS), the International Union for Combined Road-Rail Transport (UIRR), the International Union of Railways (UIC), the German Promotion Centre for Intermodal Transport (SGKV) and the Swedish consulting and software company Triona are project partners.
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