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 and acts as a platform for innovation and 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 │ ALLIANCE CORNERSTONES 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 decision-making Relevance for Transport The partners strive for a reliable execution of the given trip plan / estimated reliability time of arrival (ETA) Transport The Alliance aims at an enhanced transparency for customers before, during and after transport information Xrail targets full interoperability to enable a more seamless, swift European Seamless offer Single Wagonload offer Rail is the leading transport mode in environmental performance, particularly Environment 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 Single Wagonload offer Transport information Transport reliability Seamless offer • Automated Xrail quality monitoring for • Significantly enhanced interoperability • Solid ETA / trip plan provision at time all transports according to common based on common standards and of transport booking processes standards • Follow up of actual wagon status • Provision of KPIs and performance • Full European network coverage with a versus plan reports seamless Single Wagonload offer via • International Track & Trace linked production systems* • Root cause tracing, follow up in case of deviations • Automated info with new 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