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«You won’t go far without courage»

«You won’t go far without courage»

21.09.2022 | Competition in rail freight transport, Freight Transport Industry, SustainabilityTags: , , , , ,

by | Sep 21, 2022 | Competition in rail freight transport, Freight Transport Industry, Sustainability

Dr Heiko Fischer pre­si­des over the Inter­na­tio­nal Union of Wagon Kee­pers UIP. The for­mer VTG boss talks to the VAP about the future of Euro­pean rail freight trans­port and the digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on of the rail sec­tor. He would like to see more...
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«We want to be faster and better than the others in the future as well.»

«We want to be faster and better than the others in the future as well.»

22.07.2022 | Competition in rail freight transport, Freight Transport IndustryTags: , , , ,

by | Jul 22, 2022 | Competition in rail freight transport, Freight Transport Industry

In June 2022, the take­over of the fami­ly busi­ness WASCOSA by Swiss Life and Vau­ban was announ­ced. We wan­ted to know more about the back­ground to this sale and the visi­on of WASCOSA from the for­mer owner and future Chair­man of the Board of Direc­tors Phil­ipp...
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Future of rail freight transport in the area

Future of rail freight transport in the area

26.06.2022 | Financing, Freight Transport Industry, Operations, PoliticsTags: , , , ,

by | Jun 26, 2022 | Financing, Freight Transport Industry, Operations, Politics

Sha­ping rail freight trans­port for the future The Fede­ral Council’s report  Bericht «Future ori­en­ta­ti­on of rail freight trans­port in the area»[1] of March 2022 pro­vi­des a wel­co­me oppor­tu­ni­ty to rethink the Swiss rail freight trans­port sys­tem...
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TR Trans Rail AG – a multimodal success story

TR Trans Rail AG – a multimodal success story

31.01.2022 | Competition in rail freight transport, Operations, Vibrant freight railways in SwitzerlandTags: , ,

by | Jan 31, 2022 | Competition in rail freight transport, Operations, Vibrant freight railways in Switzerland

We at the VAP are com­mit­ted to com­pe­ti­ti­ve rail freight trans­port. In the mean­ti­me, seve­ral pri­va­te RUs and VAP mem­bers ope­ra­te important trans­ports. We are happy to intro­du­ce them and their core com­pe­ten­ces. Let’s start with TR Trans...
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Notable facts from the autumn session 2021

Notable facts from the autumn session 2021

07.10.2021 | Freight Transport Industry, PoliticsTags: , , , , ,

by | Oct 7, 2021 | Freight Transport Industry, Politics

Dis­patch 20.081 on the Fede­ral Law on the Under­ground Trans­por­ta­ti­on of Goods With the adop­ti­on of the fede­ral bill, the legal basis for the Cargo Sous Ter­rain (CST) logi­stics pro­ject has been crea­ted. A final dif­fe­rence over expro­pria­ti­on must...
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