Company Shuttle

Connections

Train charter service for single customers

 

Operations of the following Shuttle Net connections:

Antwerp Combinant

Busto Arsizio-Gallarate

Geleen RTC

Busto Arsizio-Gallarate

Book your own train

The Company Shuttle unit of Hupac Intermodal serves customers who charter their own trains and secure capacity at an attractive price. Each company shuttle runs exclusively for up to three partners who take on the full loading commitment. Your advantages:

  • customised schedules meeting your specific needs
  • cost effective with fully automated standard procedures
  • procurement power of a strong partner.

We make your challenge a success 

Trains are our job. We provide our know-how to ensure that your trains are an instant success. From purchasing railway services and operational control of the day-to-day business to taking action in case of disturbances and wagon management – we act as an interface to the railways and free you up to focus on your core business.

 

Tailor-made to satisfy highest expectations

Each train is individually arranged to meet the customer’s needs. Based on the required route, schedule and frequency, we evaluate the needed components and define the required service level. For example, the package may comprise:

  • wagon rental and fleet management
  • terminal services
  • train monitoring and operational control 24/7
  • backup wagons or compositions
  • further added value services such as positioning of empty equipment, in-plant services, etc.

Integrated order management

Orders are processed efficiently. We install a customised order-to-billing system for each train with effective IT integration between the customer’s ERP software and Hupac’s operating system.

 

When do you run your first company train?

A company shuttle offers guaranteed loading capacity at an attractive price. In addition, your own intermodal train is a strong statement for climate-friendly, efficient transport solutions – a clear competitive advantage in the logistics market.

Team
Intermodal corridor NEAT 2020: Achieving the greatest benefit with modest means

Position paper

The opening of the Gotthard base tunnel in 2017 and of the Ceneri base tunnel in 2019 are supposed to make goods transportation more efficient and to promote modal shift. However, the question of the access lines is still without answer. The existing lines present several limitation which strongly affect the performance of the whole corridor. Because of funding shortfalls the construction of new infrastructures is not to be expected in any time soon.

 

NEAT flat railway: small, affordable expansion steps

Hupac supports a pragmatic, progressive adjustment of the existing infrastructure so that the advantages of the flat railway can be exploited as soon as the Gotthard base tunnel is opened. The existing access lines can be expanded step by step as part of a transnational corridor concept encompassing the entire Rotterdam-Genoa.

 

Increasing the productivity of rail freight transport

Long and heavy trains make the best of the system advantages of rail transportation. The productivity of the railways must be increased, also in order to offset the reduction in operating subsidies. This requires infrastructural adjustments on the 130 years old Gotthard line according to the existing European directives.

 

4-meter-profile for the modal shift of modern semi-trailers

In the last 20 years the rate of semi-trailers in road transit via Switzerland has doubled and now amounts to 60% of all heavy vehicles. In order to shift this important segment to rail, the transit route has to be upgraded to rail profile P400.

 

 

Intermodal corridor via Gotthard and Simplon – the required measures

  • Train lengths 750 m, train weights 2,000 t: essential for the productivity and competitiveness of rail
  • 4-metre P400 profile as per international UIC standard for main transport routes: essential for shifting the important segment of high-volume transport
  • Piattaforma Luino and Simplon Phase II: expansion to train lengths of up to 750 metres; implementation on schedule
  • Priority for the intermodal corridor via Luino and Domodossola, which serves the existing Busto Arsizio and Novara terminals and handles over 60% of intermodal transport
  • Terminals east of Milan for the new Seregno-Bergamo line with a capacity of 30 train pairs per day
  • No funding of the intermodal corridor at the expense of operating subsidies: risk of reverse shift!

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Contacts

Daniele
Mazzoleni
Product Manager |
Deputy Director Company Shuttle
Hupac Intermodal AG
Bruggerstrasse 37
CH-5400 Baden
+41 58 8558088
dmazzoleni@hupac.com

Single point of contact

cs@hupac.com