The Consortium
The RETRACK consortium of
13 partners includes European privately owned rail freight operators,
experienced IT and training specialists and leading European R&D
organisations which are actively contributing to the success of the
project.
Context
RETRACK is the
“REorganisation of Transport networks by advanced RAil freight
Concepts”. It is funded under the European Commission (EC) FP6
Programme. The project started in May 2007 and will run for four years.
The RETRACK project aims to contribute to the Commission’s aspirations
of a modal shift of freight traffic from road to rail with a market
share of 15% by 2020 to achieve commercial viability and contribute to
sustainable mobility. This aspiration is also supported by the European
Rail Research Advisory Council’s (ERRAC) declared aim of bolstering
rail’s market share of freight to a similar level.
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Project summary
The RETRACK project is
applying an innovative rail freight service concept to the movement of
rail freight across Europe. This is being achieved through the design,
development and implementation of a commercial trans-European rail
freight service along the rail corridor between Rotterdam (Netherlands)
and Constanza (Romania) on the Black Sea.
The project aims to
secure a significant modal shift of cargo from road to rail and to
create an effective and scalable rail freight corridor between high
demand regions in Western Europe and new high growth regions in Central
and Eastern Europe. The project will look to develop links with other
emergent corridors from the TEN-T network as well as those assessed in
the REORIENT and TREND projects.
Overall, the RETRACK project
addresses the issues arising from transforming vision into practice and
will establish a clear demonstration to the rail freight and wider
logistics industry that pan European continental rail freight can be
competitive, reliable and value for money. The RETRACK freight operators
and allied parties are working together with leading research and
development organisations to achieve this goal.
Learn more about ReTrack project »
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Commercial Contact:
If you have cargo that you wish to have carried along the RETRACK
corridor from Cologne-Gyor or vice versa then please contact our
commercial team:
Johannes Marg, Transpetrol GmbH
email: johannes.marg@transpetrol.de
Tel:+49(0)402 360 0487
Fax:+49(0)40/236004-30
Mobile:+49(0)172 432 8638 |
This project is sponsored by:
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