EPAL and UIC bring the pallet conflict to an end

EPAL and UIC agree on unlimited exchangeability of their charge carriers; EPAL offers to take over the entire organisation of the UIC’s pallet pool

UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) and the pallet organisation EPAL (European Pallet Association), which has been approved by UIC since 1995, are acting in concert again. A new agreement on the unlimited exchangeability between EPAL and UIC brings their conflict about pallet exchange to an end.

At a press conference in Vienna Karl Kern, Chairman of the pallet pool working group in the Chamber of Commerce Austria, Robert Holliger, President of the European Pallet Association e.V., and Thomas Metlich as Chairman of the UIC Working Group „questions of palletizing“ announced the end of the pallet conflict. Accordingly, EPAL and UIC will go henceforth common ways. EPAL and UIC will jointly determine the contents of the necessary pallet quality.

With the current agreement of EPAL and UIC, the first step is done, but the real challenges of the market lie beyond the „green table“: Global growth needs structures that work. Therefore, UIC offered EPAL to take over the entire organization of the world’s largest open pallet pool, including external quality control by an independent testing organization. „Now the ball is in the playfield of UIC,“ said Martin Leibrandt, CEO of the European Pallet Association e.V., in Vienna.

Almost two years ago UIC and EPAL went separate ways. Business representatives criticized this as a step towards the wrong direction. A previously functioning system has been put in question overnight. Under pressure from leading German business associations and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (pallet pool working group) UIC and EPAL agreed on the mutual recognition of the charge carriers. Hence there was no long-term reliability in the world’s largest open pallet pool yet. The unlimited exchangeability of EPAL and UIC pallets announced on 24 November will eliminate this shortcoming.

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Quelle: LogEastics
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