COSMOS Final Conference Invitation

2014/04/17

The intermodal sector has made a considerable progress in South-East Europe in the last years:
• Respective Member States have heavily invested in the rail, road and port infrastructure, jointly with private investors;
• The European Union has implemented the regulations 1315 and 1316/2013 setting the scene for a true European multimodal core network by 2030 and the Connecting Europe Facility is committing further financial aid for the sector;
• Railways, intermodal operators and logistics service providers have created new business models to expanding their services to their customer’s requirements.
Nevertheless, the sector is challenged by reduced growth rates after the World’s financial crisis, competition between different corridor routings, flexibility of the road sector to respond to regulatory or market changes faster than the traditional railways can do.
Against that background the six Round Tables performed in the scope of the COSMOS project in Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, have also demonstrated the large potential of the sector and its innovative actors who are prepared for the future needs.

COSMOS Final Conference Invitation (142KB)
We would like to take this opportunity to discussing these developments with stakeholders from the sector and invite you jointly with the project partner Schenker & Co AG, Wien, to participate in the COSMOS Final Conference on
12 June 2014, 09:30-17:00
ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien,
Neubaugürtel 34-36, 1070 Wien, Austria

In order to facilitate organizing the meeting we would like you to register by returning the completed registration form by e-mail (niklas.galonske@hacon.de). Only registered persons will be accepted for participating the meeting.