International Union of Wagon Keepers (UIP)’s Post

Today, after a successful Belgian tenure #EU2024BE, we welcome the Hungarian Presidency of the Council #HU24EU! Come and listen to the smart things I have to say about their priorities for #transport and #rail. More seriously, it will be interesting to see how the discussions will evolve about the role of rail as a mean to boost Europe's #competitiveness and economic growth, facilitating the movement of people and goods and deepening further the #SingleMarket! I look forward to the Ministerial debates in Budapest on 19-20 September on this topic! CER (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies) #OnTrackforEurope

The conference 'Boosting Rail Freight Transport in Europe: What Worked – and What Still Needs to Be Done' was organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union as part of the #ConnectingEurope Days. Ministers of transport, MEPs, representatives from European institutions, and rail CEOs were convened in Brussels, with discussions centred around strategies to enhance rail freight transport in Europe: 👉 Capacity management 👉 Resilience of the rail network 👉 Innovation and digitalisation 👉 Investment in infrastructure 👉 Fair competition between modes of transport 👉 Risks associated with the ongoing revision of the Weights and Dimensions Directive of Road Vehicles The deliberations highlighted the importance of collaborative efforts, having an EU’s regulatory framework that supports modal shift to rail, and implementing strategic initiatives to advance rail freight transport in Europe. #EU2024BE #ConnectingEuropeDays #RailFreight #ERTMS #DigitalAutomaticCoupling #OnTrackForEurope Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2024 Georges Gilkinet Kaspars Briškens Volker Wissing Tilly Metz Josef Doppelbauer Matthias Ruete Mathieu Grosch Dr. Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta Alberto Mazzola Paul Hodgson Ralf-Charley Schultze Dirk Stahl Guus de Mol German Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport

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🚂 The European Commission’s proposal for a new #RailwayInfrastructureCapacityManagementRegulation, published as part of the #GreeningFreightTransportPackage (#GFTP), is greeted by UIRR as a promising start. ---the UIRR position paper [https://lnkd.in/e97pQK9f] takes stock of the merits of the proposal and suggests some improvements to it. 💈 The starting position of operators of #intermodal #freight trains is the need for more and better-quality train paths. Today 5-6 passenger trains fall on each freight train that runs on the European railway network. Every second rail freight tonne-kilometre is produced by an intermodal train, 90% of which crosses at least one national border. 💈 The growth in the number of passenger trains has considerably outpaced passenger ridership. The trend coincides with a “not-in-my-backyard" mentality when it comes to building additional railway lines. Today, European transport policy objectives must be met largely using the existing railway network. 📌 These objectives include the doubling of the market share of rail freight until 2050. A performance of 800-1000 billion tonne-kilometre will require the doubling of the number of freight trains that run every day on the European network. 📈 As the tool to achieve this outcome, the Commission’s proposal foresees a #SocioEconomicandEnvironmentalCostBenefit analysis. UIRR proposes additional changes to the Regulation to reinforce the objective of securing MORE AND METTER QUALITY TRAIN PATHS FOR FREIGHT TRAINS. European Parliament Council of the European Union José Ramón Bauzá Izaskun Bilbao Barandica Elsi Katainen Caroline Nagtegaal-Van Doorn Jan-Christoph Oetjen Istvan Ujhelyi Sara Cerdas Nora Mebarek Kathleen Van Brempt Thomas Rudner Karima Delli Ciarán Cuffe Jakop Dalunde Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg Andrey Novakov Markus Ferber, MdEP ELENA KOUNTOURA Andor Deli Filip-Alexandru Negreanu-Arboreanu Elzbieta Lukaniuk Maira Madala Marina Sola García Robert Schichl Lena Widefjäll Attila Benedek Natalia Vladimirova Edita Vysna EPP Group in the European Parliament Renew Europe Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament The Left in the European Parliament 

"As the new European Parliament sits for the first time, IRU looks forward to working with MEPs to drive a more #sustainable, efficient and innovative EU road #transport sector. Priority policy actions are outlined in IRU’s Manifesto." 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dmrE2cgQ #ECGNews #roadtransport

🌉 Building bridges between legislators and the freight transport sector: an important role for industry associations. 🛎 #combinedtransport enhances the capability of #railfreight to attract shippers to use 🚂 trains not only for their externality advantage (#CO2, #pollution, #safety, #security, #noise) but also as #digitalisation will enable identical #trackingandtracing performance of #truckloads as if the cargo had been carried in a single truck from-end-to-end.

  🚉 EU Transport Ministers throw a lifeline to rail freight! 👀   Rail freight has received strong backing from #EUTransportMinisters as they discussed Europe’s mobility of tomorrow at an informal meeting on 3 and 4 April in Brussels. Presided by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2024, the Ministers presented the #BrusselsDeclaration consisting of 20 points to guide the next EU legislative period with a clear recognition of rail freight’s important role for EU’s economy:   ▶Make the #modalshift towards rail transport a central objective of European mobility policy. ▶Make the development of #railfreight a #priority for the EU's internal market. ▶Prepare the necessary #RegulatoryChanges and make every effort to adopt them in order to improve the #competitiveness of rail transport. ▶ Ensure a #LevelPlayingField with other modes of transport.   The European Parliament’s decision in March 2024 to favour longer and heavier trucks in its position on the Weights & Dimensions Directive was a bitter pill to swallow for the rail freight sector as it puts at risk the modal shift and Green Deal objectives.   This Declaration outlines the crucial role of rail. It has to punch its weight in future policy making decisions! Full details 👉 https://lnkd.in/dibvqdYx Media material courtesy of Belgium Presidency  

🔊 UIRR joined forces with ERFA-European Rail Freight Association, and two of our national peer associations DIE GÜTERBAHNEN in Germany and the Dutch association RailGood to produce a short paper that directs the attention of the upcoming Transport Council of the European Union to #RailFreight 🚂 . 👉 It will also directly address the political groups running for the European Parliament in this weekend’s European elections. 🔎 Resilient growth of the European economy should be based on a relentless pursuit of all-out resource productivity of #labour, #energy, #infrastructure and #environmental performance. 🛤 ⚓ 🛣 #DoortoDoor #CombinedTransport substantially outperforms its unimodal road 🚛 alternative in each of these categories. ❗ Rail freight is a very important pillar of door-to-door Combined Transport.  ▶ The infrastructure network must be developed with a view on the needs of #intermodal #trains, while adequate quality and quantity of track capacity should be allocated to #freight trains. ▶ The regulatory framework should be developed in a mode-neutral way, building on the principles of intermodality as a network, harmonisation and homogeneity. 📢 The opportunity to engineer a leap in modal shift towards Combined Transport is here and now. Belgian Presidency of the Council of European Union Georges Gilkinet Audrey Devos European Commission Herald Ruijters Annika Kroon Szymon Oscislowski Maria Koidu

❗ Czechs and Slovaks together again, at least on the railway tracks ❗ ŽESNAD (Czech Association of Rail Freight operators) has joined forces with its Slovak counterpart AROS and wagon keepers associations (SPV and ZVKV) to make their voices heard in Brussels. We want our comments to be taken into account in the further development of the #DAC digital automatic coupling as part of the future of European rail freight transport. We are also talking to other partners to support the #DAC – Voice of Reason initiative. which wants to advance #DAC and at the same time look realistically at its problems. #DigitalAutomaticCoupling #Railfreight #Rail #logistics Ministerstvo dopravy ČR Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking European Commission International Union of Wagon Keepers (UIP) ERFA-European Rail Freight Association Rail Forum Europe RAILTARGET

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