Also Veneto in the Rail Cargo Group-Transporeon agreement

TRIESTE – Transporeon and Rail Cargo Group (RCG) have announced an expanded collaboration with the addition of new corridors to their joint offering.
The announcement follows the joint victory of the Austrian Logistics Prize 2024, awarded by the Association of Austrian Logistics Networks (VNL) on 5 June. The agreement is based on collaboration last year, when the two companies announced the integration of RCG’s offers and services onto Transporeon’s platform in March 2023, covering pilot routes between Germany, Austria and Italy.
Customers will now have the option to move shipments to less CO2-intensive rail or multimodal routes, where the long haul is completed by train and the first and last kilometers are handled flexibly by truck to and from the location desired. After the successful pilot project, the two companies increased the number of available roundtrips from three to eight also in the Central European corridors: Lower Saxony-Veneto, North Rhine-Westphalia-Veneto And Eastern Austria and Hungary-Veneto. Other “routes” concern Eurasia and the Balkans.
Furthermore, users of the Transporeon management platform can easily access greater data transparency for RCG transport, including real-time visibility and calculation of greenhouse gas emissions (in line with CountEmissionsEU).
«We at ÖBB Rail Cargo Group are committed to being the sustainable logistics backbone of Europe, to increasing the share of rail transport and making it accessible and attractive, especially for new customers. Our strategy – he said Clemens Först, CEO of Rail Cargo Group – is focused on offering multimodal transport that combines the sustainability of the railway with the flexibility of the road. Our collaboration with Transporeon is a significant step in making these services easy to use and seamless. We already provide a level of real-time visibility that surpasses many supply chain managers’ experience with road transportation, and this is just the beginning of our journey.”
“As demand for decarbonization evolves, there is a desire among shippers to move freight from road to multimodal. However, recent research highlights the lack of integration between rail and multimodality and other supply chain solutions – he commented Christopher Keating, senior vice president of Trimble Transportation Europe – represents a fundamental obstacle. We are tackling this problem by working together with ÖBB Rail Cargo Group. As part of this cooperation, Transporeon and ÖBB Rail Cargo Group are also planning to deploy a branded locomotive on the RCG network to symbolize the strength of their collaboration.”