Thomas Wimroither Association Korridor X PLUS

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a european railway review conference
Integration of main Pan-European Corridor X Sections
into the Network of Rail Freight Corridors
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Thomas Wimroither
Network Access – Corridor Management
ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG & Secretary General
Association Korridor X PLUS
Gold Partners
Introduction
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Some recent trends in European transport policy with reference to the development of a transEuropean corridor network seem to marginalise the most important transport axis for the
Western Balkan region, which is undoubtedly Pan-European Corridor X.
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In this regard the EU-Regulation 913/2010 concerning a European rail network for competitive
freight serves as appropriate example in providing the implementation of several new RailFreight-Corridors such as the more eastern located Pan-European Corridor IV as new Rail-FreightCorridor 7, but unfortunately not of Corridor X. (Other EU-Regulations in this respect are e.g. No.
1315/2013 on Union guidelines of the trans-European transport network as well as 1316/2013
establishing the Connecting Europe Facility).
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For this very reason numerous stakeholders along Corridor X started to pool their forces for the
purpose of meeting all requirements for an integration of Corridor X to the future Rail-FreightCorridor-Network according to EU-Regulation 913/2010.
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Introduction
The 9 core
network
corridors
defined in the
CEF (Connecting
European
Facility)
(Schematic indicative
map as provided for
under Art 44(2) of
Regulation (EU) No
1315/2013)
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Table of Contents
I. What is a Rail-Freight-Corridor?
II. How other Rail-Freight Corridors perform?
III. What has been achieved? – What still needs to be done?
IV. Conclusions
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I. What is a Rail-Freight-Corridor?
Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010
concerning a European rail network for competitive freight
•
is the basis for the implementation of 9 Rail-Freight-Corridors (RFCs) almost all over Europe
•
aims at a professional corridor approach of the railway infrastructure managers towards
customers (railway undertakings, terminal owners and operators, ports, forwarders, logistic
providers etc.) that makes borders disappear
•
ensures harmonised investment plans along each corridor in accordance with a corridorwide elaborated transport market study focussing on real market developments and
addressing customer needs
•
provides one single ONE-STOP-SHOP for each corridor as single contact point for
customers interested in using the corridor
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I. What is a Rail-Freight-Corridor?
Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010
concerning a European rail network for competitive freight
•
aims at a harmonised approach with regard to
 capacity allocation
 the management of network operation
 performance management for freight trains
 the trans-national coordination of maintenance-works
•
requires the publication of trans-national corridor-information-documents for the whole
corridor as marketing- and sales-tool
•
takes into account the needs of passenger transport
•
in order to attract more freight traffic to such RFCs
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II. How other Rail-Freight Corridors
perform?
Corridor X is situated
in the vicinity of
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Rail-Freight-Corridor 5 –
Baltic-Adriatic (as of 2015)
•
RFC 6 – Mediterrenean
(since 2013)
•
RFC 7 – Orient-/East-Med
(since 2013)
•
RFC 9 – Rhine-Danube (not
later than 2020)
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II. How other Rail-Freight Corridors
perform?
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II. How other Rail-Freight Corridors
perform?
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II. How other Rail-Freight Corridors
perform?
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III. What has been achieved? –
What still needs to be done?
On the Part of the Railways
• The member railway infrastructure managers of the Association Corridor X PLUS
agreed on a routing for a new RFC along Corridor X:
Villach (A) – Ljubljana (SLO) –
– Zagreb (HR) – Belgrade (SRB) – Niš (SRB) – Sofia (BG) – Svilengrad border (BG)
Graz (A) – Maribor (SLO) –
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III. What has been achieved? –
What still needs to be done?
Routing of this new RFC
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III. What has been achieved? –
What still needs to be done?
On the Part of the Railways
• The railway infrastructure managers (IMs) between Austria and Bulgaria (ÖBBInfrastruktur AG, SŽ-Infrastruktura d.o.o., HŽ-Infrastruktura d.o.o., ŽS Železnice
Srbije JSC as well as NRIC [the Bulgarian National Railway IM]) decided to pool
their forces and to concentrate their energy on the creation of all prerequisites
for establishing a Rail-Freight-Corridor along Pan-European Corridor X within
the Association <Corridor X PLUS>.
• The Association <Corridor X PLUS> already started to adopt organizational RFCstructures as it is common practice on other RFCs – such as the establishment of
an RFC-Coordination Group that is steered by SŽ-Infrastruktura d.o.o.
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III. What has been achieved? –
What still needs to be done?
• The stakeholders of our Corridor – such as railway undertakings, ports and terminals
– have shown huge interest in our intentions.
• We as <Corridor X PLUS> accept this call of our stakeholders and we will show
complete commitment to this challenge.
However, on the Part of the Ministries
• Results have not been achieved yet among the Ministries in the concerned countries.
• No application (letter of intent) has been sent to the European Commission to
Brussels so far.
• A lot of lobbying still has to be done to attract sustainable support for the purpose of
establishing a Rail-Freight-Corridor along Corridor X.
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IV. Conclusions
Corridor X in order to become an Axis of Prosperity …
• … needs to keep pace with the developments on other important European Corridors
as it is an important link between Central and South-Eastern Europe as well as Asia
and – Corridor X – thus deserves the same attention as comparable transport axes in
Europe do.
• … may not be disregarded since it is the most important link between the Western
Balkan region and the rest of Europe. Neglecting Corridor X means to dry out the
whole Western Balkan region.
• … needs the full support of all of its stakeholders.
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