Xrail Alliance to boost European wagonload traffic

Connection of national booking systems via Xrail about to be implemented; pilot transports will be operated in autumn 2015

Xrail, an alliance of six leading European rail freight companies, has continued its efforts to significantly enhance international wagonload and will start with pilots for international capacity booking in 2015.

With the XCB (Xrail Capacity Booking) initiative, all Xrail members establish capacity-controlled networks on domestic level. The central broker system, developed by Xrail, will connect these domestic systems to enable simple and seamless Wagonload bookings between the six partners with full coverage across the entire Xrail network. Shippers will be provided with an estimated time of arrival (ETA) at the time of booking and perceive a new level of quality and efficiency for their European wagonload transports. Pilots for international capacity booking are currently in preparation and will be operated in the autumn of 2015.

Based on their unanimous decision to boost the wagonload traffic across the European borders, the Xrail members have made considerable progress to realize an industry change for rail freight by accomplishing successful turnaround programs and by implementing capacity-managed networks respectively. Wagonload still forms the crucial backbone for rail freight traffic with a share of up to 30 per cent and an estimated volume of about 85 billion tonne-kilometres within Europe. Xrail continues to substantially enhance the international Wagonload with the implementation of international capacity booking.

In February 2010, the Xrail production alliance was formed for the operations of international wagonload traffic between the six rail freight operators CFL cargo, DB Schenker Rail, Green Cargo, Rail Cargo Group, SBB Cargo and SNCB Logistics. The alliance strives to significantly enhance the competitiveness of European Wagonload traffic by working together to improve the quality of Wagonload services throughout Europe and has developed new international production standards, supporting IT tools and different quality improvement measures. Since autumn 2010, the new international production standard has been continuously improved and rolled-out to a relevant share of the international Wagonload traffic between the partners.

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