Open letter from the representatives of the European rail logistics The Rhine valley railways will be interrupted for almost two months because of the Rastatt construction site accident. Once the route is reopened the announced date of 7 October 2017, railway logistics will have suffered immense damage. The Rastatt disruption and the current crisis management […]
At its 67th General Assembly (GA), UIP elected its Board for the next three years’ term. Amsterdam, May 17th, 2017 – Dr. Heiko Fischer, CEO of VTG will continue to act as President and Johannes Mansbart, CEO of GATX Rail Europe and Per-Anders Benthin, CEO of TRANSWAGGON as Vice-Presidents. Two new members, Mr. Adam […]
A clear linguistic regime is essential for the Agency in the design of its processes for its new tasks, more particularly in the way all the actors involved in the processes will coordinate to ensure that these processes are efficient, consistent and safe to the benefit of all these actors. In the absence of a […]
On June 16, UIP and its Italian member association Assoferr brought together high level representatives of freight Wagon Keepers, industry and governments to discuss possible ways for achieving higher economic performance in rail freight. The performance of rail freight transport is reaching 18.2% of the modal share according to the EU Statistical Pocketbook 2015 but […]
