Rail Freight CorridorNORTH SEA - MEDITERRANEAN

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UNITED KINGDOM

COPENHAGEN

BERN

DUBLIN

BERLIN

MONACO

SPAINPORTUGAL

FRANCE

IRELAND

BELGIUM

LUXEMBOURG

GERMANY

AUSTRIALIECHTENSTEIN

ANDORRA

SAN-MARINO

SWEDENDENMARK

NETHERLANDS

SWITZERLAND

Barcelona

PortoSaragoza

Pamplona

San -Sebastián

Vigo

Santiagade Compostela

La Corogne

BilbaoOviedo

SantanderLugo

León

Gijón

Huesca

Lérida

Figueras

Salamanca

VianaDo Castelo

Aveiro

Orense

Burgos

Palencia

Zamora

Valladolid

Logroño

Vitoria-Gasteiz

Gérone

Belfast

Cork

Glasgow

Edinburgh

She

Norwich

Southampton

Leeds

Bristol

Ipswich

Newcastle

KillarneyWexford

Limerick

Galway

Londonderry

Plymouth

Brighton

Cambridge

LeicesterBirmingham

GloucesterCarmarthen

Shrewsbury

LincolnChester

Derby

Carlisle

Tarbes

Toulouse

Pau

Agen

Dax

Arcachon

MontaubanNîmes

Toulon

Montpellier

CarcassonneNarbonne

BéziersFOS-

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Limoges

Cahors

Clermont-Ferrand

Angoulême

AMBÉRIEU-EN-BUGEY

VALENCEBordeaux

Brive-la-Gaillarde

Nevers

Le Mans

Blois

Rouen

Angers

Rennes

Évreux

Saint-Brieuc

Moulins

Vannes

Tours

Caen

Melun

Niort

Nantes

Brest

La Rochelle

Bourges

Le Havre

Cherbourg

Chartres

Poitiers

Quimper

Orléans

La Roche-sur-Yon

Laon

Reims

Troyes

Chalons-en-Champagne

Grenoble

Lausanne

MÂCON

Chambéry

Chaumont

Vesoul

Besançon

Geneva

Nice

Cannes

BastiaCalvi

Ajaccio

Saint-Malo

The Hague Utrecht

Groningue

Zwolle

Arnhem

Dortmund

Kaiserslautern

SaarbrückenKarlsruhe

WilhelmshavenBremerhaven

Hamburg

Lübeck

Kiel

Stralsund

Rostock

Bremen

Hanover

Osnabrück

Münster

Duisbourg

EindhovenEssen

Cologne

Bonn

Koblenz

Mainz

Francfort-am Main

Darmstadt

Mannheim

Stuttgart

Ulm

Freiburgim Breisgau

MagdebourgBrunswick

Halle

Kassel

JenaErfurt

LeipzigDresden

ChemnitzZwickau

Wurzbourg

Bamberg

Nuremberg

Regensburg

Ingolstadt

Munich

Esbjerg

Aarhus

Odense

Malmö

OltenZurich

Lucerne

Lugano

Innsbruck

Salzburg

Venice

Turin

Genoa

Bologna

Parma

Novara

Alessandria

Savona

Trento

Bolzano

Verona

Modena

La Spezia

Ferrara

Florence

LivornoArezzo

Grosseto

Plzeň

Perpignan

Doncaster

Kingston

Nottingham

Coventry

Reading

Portsmouth

Augsburg

Padova

PARIS

BASEL

CALAIS

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ASHFORD

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DORDRECHTMAASVLAKTE

ROTTERDAM

DUNKIRK

ZEEBRUGGE

LENS

LILLE

ARRAS

AMIENS

ST-QUENTIN

AULNOYECHARLEROI

NAMUR

LIÈGEGEMBLOUX

LEUVEN MONTZEN

NANCYLÉROUVILLE

STRASBOURG

MULHOUSE

COLMAR

METZ

THIONVILLE

MERTERT

LONGUYON

AUBANGE

GHENT

DIJON

LYON

MARSEILLE

LUXEMBOURG

AMSTERDAM

BRUSSELS

AVIGNON

LONDON

ANTWERPDüsseldorf

Middlesbrough

Manchester

Liverpool

Milan

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Rail freight corridor North Sea – MediterraneanMain European railway lines

January 2016

Rail Freight Corridor North Sea – Mediterranean (RFC North Sea – Med) is one of the main railway routes and most promising rail freight corridors in Europe. It currently links main European ports (Antwerp, Rotterdam, Dunkirk, Zeebrugge and Marseille) to the industrial zones of Western Europe and to the gateways of Southern Europe.

It will be gradually extended to be aligned with the corresponding multimodal Core Network Corridor.

Together with the other Rail Freight Corridors, it builds a European network of nine corridors.

Already more than 30, 000 trains run on it, carrying over 20 million tons on international relations.

The ambitious aim of RFC North Sea - Med is to enable rail transport to be more efficient and win market shares from the road. By improving the quality of rail services, RFC North Sea - Med is encouraging the modal shift from road to rail.

A major European rail freight route

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RFC NORTH SEA – MED, PART OF A EUROPEAN NETWORK OF CORRIDORS

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Easier A single window for quality paths

Railway undertakings and other entities, such as shippers, freight forwarders and combined transport operators, can request capacity for international rail freight traffic through the Corridor One-Stop Shop and by using the international booking system Path Coordination System (PCS).

This capacity takes the form of “off-the-shelf” paths, called Pre-arranged Paths (PaP).

They can be requested either for the next annual timetable or, for more flexibility, at short notice.

These paths benefit from a high quality:

they are defined according to the needs of our customers and potential users who are consulted every year;

they are reserved for international freight traffic and benefit from a specific legal protection against cancellation;

they are built on the basis of coordinated works along the corridor;

they are coordinated with the paths of other corridors.

CAPACITY ALLOCATION CALENDAR

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Easier A single window for quality paths

To improve the quality of traffic, trains running on the corridor benefit from new services.One of the main services is that, in order to increase punctuality on the corridor, train performance is measured and analysed. When a train deviates from its planned schedule, the European IT tool Train Information

System (TIS) provides the relevant information on the delay. Railway undertakings therefore benefit from an international view of the punctuality of their trains, summarised in monthly reports they receive from the Corridor One-Stop Shop.

Faster A high level of performance

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KPI 3: CORRIDOR PUNCTUALITY

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Percentage of trains arriving on time at destination, with 30 minutes threshold (12 months moving average)

Safer An optimised network

By improving interoperability, collecting information on investments and coordinating works along the corridor, the lines of the corridor are optimised for international traffic in line with the TEN-T requirements.

ERTMSRFC North Sea - Med is currently deploying the interoperable European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on the principal lines of the former Corridor C. This system is designed to replace national ones, which impose specific equipment on engines running on several networks.

INVESTMENTSInfrastructure managers exchange information on investments which enables a better coordination at corridor level. Over 70 projects which may go live in a 10 year time horizon for a total cost of approximately 6.5 billion euros have been identified. Apart from ERTMS, they mainly concern loading gauge enhancement and bottleneck relief.

COORDINATION OF WORKSInfrastructure managers coordinate the planning of works that affect capacity at corridor level. The intention is that a railway undertaking wanting to run a train from country A to country B will no longer be in a situation where infrastructure works are at thesame time being carried out on the principal line in country A and on the diversionary line in country B.

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Safer An optimised network

EXECUTIVE BOARDThe Executive board is composed of representatives of the six states engaged in the corridor. Through its cooperation at the level of the Ministries of Transport, it has the objective of improving the conditions for international rail freight transport.

MANAGEMENT BOARDThe Management board is formed by high ranked representatives of the infrastructure managers and allocation bodies of the corridor.

It has set up a permanent team and workings groups. This streamlined structure allows the Management board to react with promptness, flexibility and efficiency.

ADVISORY GROUPS RAILWAY UNDERTAKING ADVISORY GROUP (RAG)All railway undertakings interested in the use of the corridor are welcome to attend this group. It meets several times a year in order to be consulted by the Management board on issues which have consequences for them. The RAG also gives railway undertakings a platform to share, with the infrastructure managers, allocation bodies and Ministries of Transport of the corridor, their opinions about their vision on the developments and needs on RFC North Sea – Med.

TERMINAL ADVISORY GROUP (TAG)Over 100 terminals, which are combined transport terminals, maritime and river ports, multimodal platforms and marshalling yards, are situated on the routes of the corridor. Representatives from all these terminals meet within the TAG in order to improve the connexion with the corridor and to be consulted on issues of importance to them. Here also, a platform is given to the terminals to issue an opinion on matters related to the corridor.

Governance An ambitious collaborative approach

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The activities of RFC North Sea - Med are co-financed

by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility.

The sole responsibility of this publication lies with

the author. The European Union is not responsible

for any use that may be made of the information

contained therein.

CORRIDOR ONE-STOP SHOPAvenue Fonsny, 13 • B-1060 Brussels • BelgiumTel: +32 (2) 432 2808 • E-mail: oss@rfc2.eu

HEAD OFFICERFC North Sea - Med • 9 Place de la gareL-1616 Luxembourg

WEBSITEwww.rfc-northsea-med.eu

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THOMAS VANBEVERENOne-Stop Shop leader

Quality & Capacity thomas.vanbeveren@rfc2.eu

MATTHIEU MAESELLECommunication & Finance Advisory Groups matthieu.maeselle@rfc2.eu

GUILLAUME CONFAIS-MORIEUX

Managing Director guillaume.confaismorieux@rfc2.eu

MOHAMED SALIMENEOperation & Investments ERTMS coordinator mohamed.salimene@rfc2.eu