Introduction to the Xrail Alliance Brussels, January 2017 Alliance - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Introduction to the Xrail Alliance Brussels, January 2017 Alliance members: CONFIDENTIAL XRAIL S.A. • AVENUE DES ARTS 53 • B-1000 BRUSSELS

Xrail is the leading European Wagonload production alliance & acts as a platform for innovation / technical collaboration • 6 Alliance partners, representing about 60% of the European Single Wagonload (SWL) • Mutual targets and committed service standards as a basis for an enhanced, sustainable European SWL offer • Common (IT) platforms and processes to support seamless international operations • Cooperation with clear focus on rail freight production and Wagonload business – block trains and commercial aspects remain in competition Source: Xrail │ XRAIL INTRODUCTION │ BASIC INFORMATION 2

The Alliance aims at enhancing the competitiveness of the European Single Wagonload significantly in 3 key areas Commercial aspects are out of scope of the Alliance Price Relevance for decision-making The partners strive for a reliable execution of the Transport given trip plan / estimated time of arrival (ETA) reliability The Alliance aims at enhanced transparency for Transport customers before, during and after transport information Xrail targets full interoperability to enable a more Seamless offer seamless, swift European Single Wagonload offer Rail is the leading transport mode in environmental Environment performance, particularly on long distances Source: Xrail │ XRAIL INTRODUCTION │ ALLIANCE TARGETS 3

Aligned capacity booking introduction and linked systems to foster a compelling, sustainable European Single Wagonload • Six major European railway undertakings (RUs) moving to a “managed capacities” Wagonload production logic in a concerted approach* • A central broker solution seamlessly connects multiple RU Wagonload booking systems based on common processes, standards and interfaces • The seamless linkage of 6 partners’ booking systems via the XCB-broker** allows for: - Full network control and capacity management for RUs - End-to-end deviation management, troubleshooting, etc. - ETA provision, seamless transport info and reliable trip plan execution for customers Source: Xrail * Green Cargo already producing SWL according to booking logic for many years │ XRAIL INTRODUCTION │ CAPACITY BOOKING 4 ** Xrail Capacity Booking (XCB) broker, watch the trailer on www.xrail.eu

Xrail benefits enable the partners to provide their customers with a more transparent, reliable and seamless SWL offer Transport information Transport reliability Seamless offer • Significantly enhanced • Solid ETA / trip plan • Automated Xrail quality interoperability based on provision at time of monitoring for all transports common standards and transport booking according to common processes standards • Follow up of actual wagon • Full European network status versus plan • Provision of KPIs and coverage with a seamless performance reports • International Track & Trace Single Wagonload offer via • Root cause tracing, follow linked production systems* • Automated info with new up in case of deviations ETA in case of deviations Source: Xrail │ XRAIL INTRODUCTION │ CAPACITY BOOKING 5 * Via the XCB broker, full coverage subject to full XCB roll-out by the Xrail members

The partners provide Single Wagonload services across 11 networks – Xrail standards will be continuously rolled out* • Sweden • Belgium • Norway • Denmark • Germany • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Northern Italy • Austria • Switzerland • Hungary • North-East Italy Source: Xrail * New Xrail Capacity Booking (XCB) standards only available on selected relations until │ XRAIL INTRODUCTION │ ALLIANCE NETWORK 6 full roll-out of Xrail Capacity booking between the members and their subsidiaries

Xrail’s central service entity has a crucial role in driving innovation and technical collaboration between the partners TECHNICAL COLLABORATION HARMONIZATION Develop smart, common technical Push standardization and solutions and ICT platforms, supporting harmonization to enable full technical the automation and digitalization of the interoperability and seamless Alliance members operations all-across Europe INNOVATION INFORMATION Enhance efficiency, quality, speed and Increase awareness of European ease-of-use of Single Wagonload Single Wagonload as a competitive production through common innovation and sustainable alternative to road Source: Xrail │ XRAIL INTRODUCTION │ KEY ACTIVITIES OF XRAIL 7