An SNCF Réseau-Haropa Port collaboration has been established as part of the PERL (French acronym for Performance Régularité Lignes) line regularity performance initiative. It is about improving the performance of the railway system between the network of railway lines operated by Haropa Port and the French national railway network operated by SNCF Réseau.
The punctuality of trains arriving in and departing from the port of Le Havre is a key component of the regularity of both freight trains and the whole rail system in Hexagon.
In this context, SNCF Réseau and Haropa Port have brought together the main players involved in the rail freight service in the Port of Le Havre: the rail infrastructure managers (SNCF Réseau and Haropa Port); the representative of the multimodal platform Le Havre Terminal Exploitation; the main rail operators (RégioRail, Captrain, Naviland, Fret SNCF, NRS).
The PERL SNCF Réseau-Haropa Port collaboration initiative is based on similar actions already successfully implemented in other major rail freight hubs such as Dourges, Perpignan, Vénissieux, Woippy, Valenton, Sibelin and Bettembourg in Luxembourg. It is made up of concrete operational actions, such as a common checklist covering all the stages in the composition and running of a freight train and regular dialogue and progress monitoring meetings, allowing any corrective or complementary measures to be taken.
4,000 trains a year in the port of Le Havre
The first rail freight port in France, Haropa Port is involved in the movement of almost 4,000 trains a year to/from Le Havre and has included in its 2020-2025 strategic project the objective of doubling its modal share.
In this context, Haropa Port aims to triple the volume of containers transported by rail. To meet this objective, Haropa Port has launched the Rail Ambition 2025 project (originally Ambition ferroviaire 2025), worth €15 million. The implementation of this project will enable the operation of an efficient port rail network, acting as an interface between the gateway for goods entering Le Havre and the national network.
“The PERL initiative, in partnership with SNCF Réseau, aims to improve the quality of service and performance of the rail system. It is part of the actions undertaken by Haropa Port and SNCF Réseau in favour of the rail freight mode”, said Florian Weyer, Managing Director of Haropa Port.
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