UIP promotes a better sharing of information among rail actors as a basic requirement to ensure safe operations and a role for ERA to facilitate the way forward in the exchange of the return of experience. UIP held a Workshop on Risk Assessment and ECM Certification in Cologne on March 27, 2013. The workshop brought […]
The present Secretary General of UIP, Dr. Holger Segerer had already informed UIP that he had decided to move from Brussels and thus to leave UIP by end of this year. In its meeting on the 19th September 2012 in Berlin, the UIP Executive Board thanked Dr. Segerer for his work during the last years […]
On 21st November 2011, the UIP presented the conclusions of one of its working parties which analysed the economic impact of the new EU rules and regulations on rail freight transport. This presentation was made during the yearly symposium of the German union of private wagon keepers (VPI). Experts from several European countries investigated the various additional […]
The UIP Congress 2011 took place on 30th September 2011 in Bern, Switzerland under the moto “how to strengthen rail freigt competitiveness”. 3 moderators, 15 speakers and 135 participants with international and transsectorial background in rail freight discussed the proactive ways forward.
During its recent General Assembly on 15th September 2010, the UIP elected Dr Eckart Lehmann, former CEO and present board member of Ahaus-Alstätter Eisenbahn Holding AG (AAE), to its new President for the term of the next 3 years. For the posts of the two UIP Vice Presidents, Dr Heiko Fischer, CEO of VTG, was […]
