Industry clearly supports the idea of co-mobility
Federation of Austrian Industries insists on infrastructure development and warns against increases in toll charges for trucks
At a press conference in the House of Industry Mr. Peter Koren, vice secretary general of the Federation of Austrian Industries, emphasised on the significance for the industry of well functioning cargo railway transport. With an export ratio of 58 per cent of Austria’s industry, and more than 90 per cent of automotive suppliers, a high quality network was essential. He is in favour of intelligent co-modality solutions, involving all transport modes according to weaknesses and strengths. In this context special toll charges were counterproductive.
In the frame of the talk the results were presented of the module rail cargo transport for the system railway. The author of the study Dr. Christian Helmenstein emphasised that Austria is ranked fifth in the European Union in liberalisation of rail cargo transport. The market share of the competitors of RCA was 17.6 % in 2012, 99 % thereof were block trains. However this share concentrates on few routes; on the Brenner corridor it is 35 %. As for national transport the RCA’s share is 93%, for transit 72%. The study also shows that only block train transport can be operated cost-covering without funding, unaccompanied intermodal transport is only cost-covering at 87 %. Single wagon transport is only able to compete with truck traffic on routes of more than 200 km; block train transport from the first kilometre.
As milestones of the group’s strategy Mag. Christian Kern, CEO of the ÖBB-Holding AG, named the commitment to area as well as to the industry. „As the last major railway network in Europe, we are committed to maintaining the complete system, although parts of it will never be profitable.“ He plans to expand the market area on demand of the industry, to go with their own trains „from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea and „earn cost of capital in order to secure investments. “
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