PROJECT

OCRA: Operational and Commercial integration between overseas shipping along the Southern route and intermodal Rail transport between the Port of Trieste and Prague, developing a innovative RFID tracing system for a more efficient and effective rail transport.


OCRA is an innovative action set up in order to overcome the complex structural market barrier to the implementation of a daily train service between the Port of Trieste and Prague, whose purpose is to manage the freight flows between the Far East and Czech Republic in a more environmentally sustainable way for the interested European territories.
The market (shippers, forwarders, shipping lines) demands – concerning rail freight services – daily train linkages in order to ensure a “quality” relation inland-port.
Since the actual levels of demand for railfreight services on the relation between the Trieste harbor and terminals in Central Eastern Europe require an enormous capital investment to support a daily shuttle train, OCRA action identifies as a possible solution the implementation of a mixed traffic rail freight service, combining intermodal and single wagon flows.

Single wagon transport is characterized by a) higher costs, and b) lower quality in terms of transit time and reliability (need for more shunting operations and difficulties in scheduling, higher risk of organizational inconveniences generated by the need of coordination between Railway undertakings, Shunting Operators, and Infrastructure Managers).

OCRA objective is to create the right conditions in terms of demand to establish an economically self-sustainable service:

• adopting a year by year implementation plan that will lead to a traffic flow of daily block trains on the considered relation, supported by significant demand shifted from road to rail; operational, organizational, marketing and ICT innovative solutions are the key factors for the success of the action;

• enhancing the quality of the offered service – with particular attention to the single wagons flows – through the application of tracking and tracing capabilities based on RFID allowing more actors in the value chain logistics services that were formerly available to the rail operators;

• Focused marketing and dissemination activities to demonstrate the value added logistics services to the complete chain of stakeholders creating a lasting sustainable offering to future users of the OCRA system.

In particular, OCRA objectives will be pursued through the implementation of three key activities, the first represented by the implementation of the rail service in order to reach the target of a daily shuttle train; the second activity consists in the development of ICT tools representing the decisive element in order to fulfill market requirements in terms of quality of the rail freight services; the last key activity is represented by the marketing actions set up in order to create and develop the demand for rail freight, in order to enable the implementation of the service up to one daily block train and more, and the economic self sustainability of the service over time.







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