International Rail Freight Conference

- Transit corridors in the Czech Republic and their modernisation;
- Modernisation or railway nodes
- European system for the railway transport management;
- Railway transport within OSŽD;
- Use of the shared consignment note CIM/SMGS

- About creation of conditions for personal and cargo transport during the “Cold War”
- About the formation of the railway cooperation association
- About extending the activities of OSJD
- About the affiliated companies
- About the tasks of OSJD in the present situation

The speech is divided into 3 parts: the first is the present situation of Eurasia Land Bridge, the second is problems on Eurasia Land Bridge; the last part is suggestion to the development of Eurasia Land Bridge.
Above all, in the second part, the speaker points out and analyzes the problems including: 1、increasing customs charges give rise to the cost of trans-Eurasia rail freight, causing the price unrealistically high 2、complicated time-consuming customs clearance cancel out the time advantage of railway 3、lagging infrastructure restrain the development of rail freight 4、incompatible dispatch order 5、information asymmetry

The Regulation concerning a European rail network for competitive freight (EC 913/2010) entered into force on 9 November 2010. Its overall purpose is to increase rail freight's attractiveness and efficiency so that rail can increase its competitiveness and market share on the European transport market. In order to achieve this it foresees the establishment of nine international Rail Freight Corridors, with the twofold aim (1) to lay the ground for provision of rail freight services of good quality meeting customer expectations and (2) to develop these corridors in terms of capacity and infrastructure standards for freight.
Along the Rail Freight Corridors cooperation among the various actors - especially among Infrastructure Managers - will be reinforced; train paths of high quality will be provided to address market demand in quantitative as well as qualitative terms. Three of the nine Rail Freight Corridors will serve places at the EU's eastern border, creating new opportunities to improve connections with Eastern Europe and Asia via the rail landbridges.

The presentation is focused on analysis of impacts and contents of the transport policies in the frame of the particular partial sections of the Euro-Asian railway connection; the impact and the role of the railway industry, especially focused on information and communication technology, on the improvement of transport efficiency and train, wagons and consignments operation technology will be also presented. Next part of the presentation deals with the aim and the position of system integration and system

Common CIM/SMGS consignment note ;Electronic CIM/SMGS consignment note ;CIM/SMGS wagon and container lists ;Practical implementation of the common CIM/SMGS Consignment note in the various railway corridors ;Transcontinental axes between Europe and Asia/Kazakhstan/China ;Legal instruments for CIM/SMGS traffic ;Rules for the payment of compensation following claims ;Creation of Unified Railway Law

The fact that several international bodies play a major role in the international legislation on rail freight requires cooperation and coordination. The presentation gives a description of the current situation including promising new efforts but also problems still to be solved.

The transport services provider TETS is offering a new product for shipping containers between China and Moscow in conjunction with the multi-modal subsidiary of Lianyungang China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL). The scheduled rail service connects the major business centres in south, east and north China with the European city of Moscow. The transport solution is 16 times cheaper than air freight and twice as fast as shipping the goods by sea. TETS needs just 23 – 25 days to ship goods door-to-door from Lianyungang to Moscow – and just 28 days for the Beijing – Moscow route. The product is fulfilling international standards. TETS is currently completing the detailed planning work for additional routes from Japan, Korea and Taiwan to the Russian capital.

Cargo routes/Intermodal solutions with the use of ferry lines from/to Varna, Bulgaria

The key point of the ČD Cargo business strategy in the next period is especially provision of transport services with higher added value, including new types of logistics services, increased profitability of the railway freight transport in the Czech Republic and last but not least, territorial development of the ČD Cargo company. This is connected also with preparation of new products, ČD Cargo is going to offer its customers.

ERS Railways has been asked by a major freight forwarding to find a new intermodal route to Afghanistan, using rail as a major component in the transport solution. Thanks to partnerships with Dutch, Czech, and Russian companies, ERS Railways has been able to launch successfully block trains of containers from Rotterdam to Afghanistan in summer 2010. These trials show the strategic importance of the Euro-Asia rail links, also for the Eastbound direction. Thanks to this success, the next steps could be other dedicated block trains from Europe to various land-locked countries in Central Asia.

Successful implementation of a huge multimodal business; perspectives in the future for direct shipments out of China and Japan to Russia.

Container transport on the route Odessa - Slawkow using the route LHS, with the option to use the route LHS. Circuit of the container train Odessa (UA) - Slawkow (PL) - project with cooperation of PKP LHS, OA Plaske, ТIS.

The presentation will cover the areas where Infrastructure Managers can add value to the customers product by giving examples of issues which are being addressed by Infrastructure Managers. The presentation will also highlight areas where further work is required suggesting possible solutions building on the work of Freight Corridors and discussing how these might be taken forward outside of Europe.

Every railway business involving more than two parties involves necessarily their cooperation, coordination, and also physical handover of the cargo and exchanging the accompanying information. During the decades many diverse standards and regulations on both technical and regulation side have been adopted by the national railways, however, and today they comprise one of the major obstacles for international cargo. The author pinpoints the most significant differences among various operated standards, and discusses ways to overcome them, as an important prerequisite for seamless transcontinental cooperation.

Mr. Bach will report on the collaboration between UIC and OSJD, which aims to harmonize the UIC managed working documents NHM (Commodity list) and DIUM (international distance tables) with the relevant working documents of the OSJD to the exchange of goods between the two transport law systems, CIM and SMGS to simplify it.

Report on work done by EC Harris for the EC and the private sector on development of projects and the response from the private sector and IFI

The terminal infrastructure for island intermodal terminals in Poland is changing. More and more operators change to a hub koncept with fast schuttle trans between seaports and island hub. This requires adjustment of traditional production concepts, software, etc.
Possibly, we can already comment on the results of the first Polish / EU funding of intermodal infrastructure in Poland.

The importance of inland logistics centres for combined transport. Present status. The need for specialised information systems to ensure their operation.

The T.T.T. project is the only complex transcontinental transit terminal in the Central Europe integrating the railway, air, ship, road and pipe transport. This is important to meet the ”Danube Region Strategy“ objectives and it reflects the fact, that new countries have joined the European Union.
It is a planned investment in Europe for transcontinental transit transport of the planned routes of the transcontinental transit transport from the view of optimal distribution of junction nodes, for which the Slovak Republic seems to be optimal location. These nodes also encourage the formation of a suitable strategy for the Danube Region in the already prepared Action plan for the Danube Strategy made by the European Commission.

1. History of Chinese Railway Machinery Imp. & Exp.
2. Performance of CMC on railway import
3. Performance of CMC on railway export
4. Chinese rail transportation market in the future

- Transformation process of railways in SR
- Characteristics of the transport market in Slovakia (2010)
- Basic ZSSK CARGO statistical data – as per 31.12.2010
- ZSSK CARGO product portfolio
- ZSSK CARGO transport flows in 2010
- Eastern Slovak Transshipment Yards
- Transportation of goods from Ukraine to Slovakia
- Opportunities for development of combined transport in direction Asia – Europe using ZSSK CARGO