ERFA Annual Event - 24th March

ERFA Annual Event - 24th March

ERFA Dinner Event

EU Transport Commissioner, Violeta Bulc, opened the evening event, outlining the Commission's ambitions for the European rail sector

 

ERFA President, Irmtraut Tonndorf's used the occasion of her speech to highlight the many discriminations faced by new entrants and to make a plea  for infrastructure managers to act as the business partners of railway undertakings, not as detached administrators of a monopoly.

 

ERFA Seminar - Open markets: driver for rail development?

Key presentations on:

Rail freight transportation: the customers' view from Denis Choumert, Director of Logistics Ciments Calcia

Liberalisation in the UK: from failure to success from Jeremy Long, CEO European Business of MTR

Innovative services in the face of discrimination from Erich Forster, CEO of Westbahn, Austria

Discrimination potentials in today's regulatory context from Dr. Dirk Bruckmann, ETH Institute, Switzerland

European Transportation agenda: ambitious goals, concrete actions from Olivier Onidi, Director DG MOVE, European Commission