BcnRail Signals to the external market and to the competitiveness of the transport of commodities like roads of future

The fourth edition of BcnRail, the International Living room of the Rail Industry of Fira of Barcelona, has fixed the roads on which the sector has to encarrilar his future. Open to new markets like Brazil; increase the degree of competitiveness of the commodities, for what the Mediterranean Runner reveals like a fundamental element, and attain a greater implication of the private companies in the management, are the main conclusions to which have arrived the experts that have participated in the only fair of the rail sector that celebrates in Spain.

Another of the appearances stood out so that the sector face the future with guarantees of success goes through to increase the traffic of commodities, that in these moments only supposes 3% of the total. “It treats of a ridiculous figure since, by structure, have a capacity of enormous growth”, affirms the president of Adif, Gonzalo Ferre. In his intervention in the day on rail liberalisation of the School of Ways, Channels and Ports of Catalonia, Ferre advanced that “in 2013, the traffic of commodities will be of 21.071 million gross tonnes by kilometre in front of the 27.825 million 2008”.

The approval, the day 19 November, by part of the European Parliament to fund until 40% of the cost of the works of the Mediterranean Runner has to influence in the increase of the competitiveness of the rail commodities. The coordinator of the Network Transeuropea of Transport of the European Commission, Carlo of Grandis, affirmed in the II International Forum Rail, that “what more concerns to Europe is the interoperability”, that is to say, the total connection between all the lines that conform the network.

By his part, the secretary of Infrastructures and Mobility of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Ricard Font, did a call to the companies of the sector so that “they increase his degree of implication in the management of the infrastructures built in the last years”. For Font, “the interoperability and the intermodalidad are keys“and pleaded for an increase of the public collaboration-deprived to”face plans of business“that do profitable infrastructures like the Mediterranean Runner.

BcnRail Has registered the visit of more than 5.000 professionals and has had the participation of more than 800 congressmen and 200 speakers. The president of BcnRail, Javier Biscayan, stands out that”in 2013, have bet for supporting to the SMEs of the auxiliary industry and of components of our sector, strategic for the Spanish economy”.