PROJECT OF HIGH-SPEED EUROPEAN RAIL FREIGHT SERVICE CONNECTED TO AIRPORTS AND LOGISTIC AREAS

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1 PROJECT OF HIGH-SPEED EUROPEAN RAIL FREIGHT SERVICE CONNECTED TO AIRPORTS AND LOGISTIC AREAS December 2011

2 Content 1. The high speed train for Cargo at CDG airport Concept, context & stakes of the project 2. The history of the HST Cargo project in Europe 3. The Euro Carex network 4. The Euro Carex Railports in Europe 5. The Euro Carex federation and the GEC Carex 6. The Euro Carex transport services 7. The Euro Carex intermodal terminal 8. The Euro Carex rolling stock 2 9. Some data & figures 10. Project status update 2

3 1. The high speed train for Cargo: Concept, context & stakes of the project The Euro Carex Concept Using the existing high speed rail network in Europe to transport a part of air freight by HST The objective is to ensure modal shift from trucks and short/medium-haul flights to high-speed trains up to 300 kmph 3 3

4 1. The high speed train for Cargo at CDG airport Concept, context & stakes of the project Economic and environmental conditions favourable to the project Strong growth of express & cargo activities on all major airports. Temporray reduction in traffic as a result of the global economic crisis Increasing scarcity of night-time air slots to reduce the noise pollution limiting business growth for freight operators HGV speed limits introduced IN Europe on 1 January 2007, combined with saturation of main roads making road transport less attractive Development of a high-speed train network in Europe & Deregulation of the European rail freight market introduced on 1 April Fluctuation of the oil barrel price: April 2006: $75, August 2008: $150, January 2009: $50, December 2010: 88$, in 2015? 4

5 2. The history of the HST Cargo project in Europe 1994: First technical studies by SNCF/Alstom ; First political declaration in favour of High speed rail cargo project with the objective to limit night flights at CDG airport 2000: FedEx Express opened thier main European hub at CDG, in cooperation with ADP. The location is chosen by FedEx because of the easy connection and proximity to rail HSL 2003: French government order limiting the night slots at CDG: impossible to add flights between 0:00 & 5:30 am 2003/2004: Working group «HSR for Cargo» conducted by Aéroports de Paris, in cooperation with Liege Airport, Air France, FedEx, 2005: first technical studies concerning rail connection to HSL & capacity on tracks (train paths) : Constitution of the Roissy Cargo Rail Express» association gathering public authorities, neighboring commuities, air freight compagnies & Aéroports de Paris

6 2.The history of the HST Cargo project in Europe 2006: Economic & technical feasibility study by Roissy Carex 2007: Looking for potential partners in Europe by Roissy Carex in order to establish a correspondent s network 2007/2008: constitution of similar associations to Roissy Carex Lyon Carex, Liege Carex, London Carex & Amsterdam Carex 2008: The Carex project is approved by the European Commission and will get some financials support. The project is also supported by the regional & national governments in each country. 2008: Follow-up studies business case, rolling stock, rail connections, train paths 2009: Creation of Euro Carex, the European non-profit federation gathering all the partners involved in the Carex project on European level : Discussions with rail companies ; additional economic studies ; lobbying with European institutions

7 3.The Euro Carex network 7 The three stages

8 4. The Euro Carex «Railports» Today, there are 5 local Carex associations / groups in Europe, called Railports, the name given to the future intermodal freight terminals Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport France And soon? Liege Airport Belgium GERMANY CAREX London Eurotunnel United Kingdom Cologne-Bonn Airport Frankfurt Airport Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport France 8 HST CARGO SCHIPHOL AMSTERDAM CAREX Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport The Netherlands

9 Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport The Cargo Rail Express Project initiated at CDG Airport in February 2006 with the creation of Roissy Carex association, a non-profit organisation Presided by Yanick Paternotte, Depute Member of the French Parliament & Mayor ; the first who talked about the HST for freight in The directors, members of the association are: Representatives of local authorities: cities, communities of Cities, General councils, Local Development agencies, etc. Representative of Paris-CDG main actors and freight operators: Aéroports de Paris, FedEx, TNT, UPS, Groupe La Poste, Air France- KLM Cargo, WFS 9 Other main members: RFF (Public French Rail Infrastructure owner & manager), Regional Council of Ile-de-France (Regional government), Public Establishment of Regional Planning, Regional Directorate for Equipment (French State), French Chambers of Commerce and Industry

10 Paris-CDG To London, Liège, Amsterdam, Cologne To "Triangle de Vémars" Connections between the "North-Europe" line and the "Interconnexion line" «Interconnection» high-speed line «North-Europe» high-speed line Terminal North-West Station - Step 1 FedEx TNT, DHL, UPS AF Cargo La Poste WFS Terminal South station Step 2 ACI Europe Intermodality Taskforce - Brussels Séminaire Intermodalité SNCF / Aéroports de Paris 5 septembre 2006 Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Spain, Italy 10

11 Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport Last local studies Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) studies on the French railway network (2009/2010) Railway connection study with cofinancing RFF / Roissy Carex / Ile-de-France Region / Regional Equipment Direction Estimated total cost for the construction of the railway connection : 100 Millions Exact location and size of Roissy Carex Railport Terminal Studies in view of acquisitions of land and the development of the Carex area located around the airport (2010) In relation with the Public Establishment of Planning Plaine de France, the city of Goussainville and Aéroports de Paris Decision beginning of Technical study on the Airport / Railport interface (2010) Mode of routing and freight processing

12 Study for the rail connection to the HSL at CDG airport Terminal position 2 Terminal position 1

13 Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport A project supported by the French government & Public Authorities Subsidy voted and allocated under the Governmental-regional council planning contract Project approved by the Grenelle de l Environnement on 25 October Parliamentary amendment proposed by MP Yanick Paternotte and voted 50 million euros for the creation of high-speed freight Carex terminals at Paris-CDG & Lyon-Saint Exupéry National commitment for railway freight from the French government The government supports the project carried by Carex Association and will participate in the investment of the Roissy-CDG and Lyon-Saint- Exupéry railway terminals and in their connection to the TGV network. (16/09/09) 13 Taken up by the SNCF in its recovery plan: strong interest in operation of services and investments in rolling stock

14 Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport Chairman: Salvatore Alaimo, managing director of Dimotrans Group 1st Vice-President: Philippe Meunier, Member of French Parliament Main members : Local & regional communities represented by elected politicians Lyon Airports Company, Dimotrans Group (a big air logistics company) Air France Cargo, Federal Express, Groupe La Poste, TNT, WFS, TLF 14 State of progress CargoPort zone identified and approved. Railway connection (branch lines) survey conducted by RFF Cost of the railway connection : 35 million Market study in 2009 Search for additional members & freight volumes Next steps Step 2 of the Railway connection survey Survey on the environmental impact Technical survey of the station Search for funding

15 Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport Location of the Lyon Carex Railport close the new CargoPort zone 15 Lyon-Saint Exupéry passenger HST station CargoPort zone Selected location for freight station of the Carex project

16 Liege Airport Chairman: Mr Jean-Pierre Grafé, former Minister and 1st Vice-President of Liege Airport Main members : Liege Airport company, TNT, Wallonia Region, Logistics in Wallonia, an association comprising the private operators and certain public organizations of the sector, etc. State of progress Technical & economic local study in 2008 Technical study concerning air/route/rail transfers between the Carex Terminal and the airport areas in order to optimize the exchange time achieved in 2010 The conclusions are of interest for the other Carex Railports) Looking for additional flows coming from road feeder services 16 Coming soon Follow up in 2011 on the Infrabel study concerning the Carex site connection to railway lines towards the Western part (France, The Netherlands, Great Britain) and towards Germany Train paths study carried by Infrabel in cooperation with the other managers of the railway infrastructures

17 Liege Airport Location of the Liege Carex Railport 17

18 HST CARGO SCHIPHOL Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport Project conducted by the public-private Schiphol Area Development Company SADC with the initiative group HST Cargo Schiphol Main members: Schiphol Group, Province of North Holland, KLM Cargo, ProRail The Dutch Rail Infrastructure Manager, logistics companies at and around Schiphol airport The rail freight terminal is part of an important inter-modal project called ACT (Amsterdam Connecting Trade) ProRail Studies : Conditions of use of the new high speed line between Amsterdam and the Belgian border (HSL ZUID) for express freight transport Connection of the future Carex terminal to the high speed line Development of the terminal Financing of the infrastuctures: 50% national government / 50% regional government 18 SADC study on the realization of a road lane dedicated to freight between Carex terminal, Trucks terminal and Schiphol airport

19 HST CARGO SCHIPHOL Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport The Amsterdam-Schiphol Carex Terminal 19 19

20 Greater London area London Carex Ltd : a subsidiary 100% owned by Eurotunnel, the operator of the rail Channel tunnel between France & UK. No public subsidies Chairman : Mr Jacques Gounon, Chairman and Managing Director of Eurotunnel Group Contrary to other Carex sites, the London Carex Railport will not be located on an airport platform, as London airports do not have a direct railway connection with the continental mainland The London Carex Railport will be directly connected to HS1, the first British high speed railway line, next to M25 (ring motorway) and to A13 (Eastern direct road access to London) Discussion on the conditions of access to HS1: tolls, maintenance policies, performance contract, etc. a complex process due to the fact that HS1 has just been sold 20 Intervention of United Kingdom Embassy in Paris: contact with London economic development agency, Transport for London and office of the Mayor of London

21 Greater London area Hypothesis for the location of the London Carex Railport terminal 21

22 GERMANY CAREX Cologne-Bonn and/or Frankfurt? Despite contacts by Euro Carex, together with interventions by FedEx and UPS operating on Cologne-Bonn airport, the airport manager has not shown its interest for this project so far Fraport, the airport manager of Frankfurt, seems to follow the project development carefully but no commitment yet On Liège Carex initiative, discussions with the German ambassador in Brussels and the Walloon agency for exports and investments in order to establish a contact with German politicians Finally, under the impulse of Yanick Paternotte, FedEx and UPS, the German ambassador in Paris took the initiative to find a political player able to carry this project in Germany Cologne-Bonn airport 22 Frankfurt airport

23 5. The EURO CAREX Federation Creation of Euro Carex in April 2009 Euro Carex is an international non-profit association with headquarters in Brussels, Capital of European Union. Euro Carex federates the existing Carex national associations. The Board of Directors is composed of two representatives of each Carex Railport local association. The chairman is also the French politician Mr Yanick Paternotte The executive committee composed by the managing director and project managers of the Carex national entities is in charge to manage the Euro Carex activities 23 Objectives : lobbying activity, coordination of the project at the European scale, consolidation of the economic results of the local economic studies European fundraising action Finding partners in Germany, Spain & Italy

24 5. and the GEC-CAREX CAREX GEC-CAREX is a sub-group of Euro Carex, gathering the future main customers of the CAREX service: 4 main objectives: Determine a HST freight European transport plan shared by all members with the aim to operate modal transfers from air & road to rail Consolidate confidential data for this project : volumes, timetable, etc. Develop the Expression of Global Needs, a document specifying the required features for the transportation of HST freight Consultation of railway operators in progress Be the interface with any other involved parties by representing the future customers of this HST freight service 24 GEC-CAREX is working closely with all the other Carex partners

25 6. The Euro Carex transport services Initially, the Carex project was built to reply in priority to the integrators and express freight operators needs. Nevertheless, in order to reach the point of profitability, the Carex partners are convinced that the service has to integrate the trucked airfreight flows & in addition, the traditional freight travelling also by truck. 25 EXPRESS: Service for reserved freight flows on the assigned train, with next-day delivery, guaranteed lead times and volume commitment. Higher price for freight flows from aircraft RAPID: Service for reserved freight flows on the assigned train, with next-day delivery and guaranteed lead times, but with the possibility that flows may not travel on the assigned service, depending on train capacity. Lower price to capture trucked airfreight flows DIFFERED: Service for freight flows travelling without reservation for delivery lead times of between 1 and 3 days, with no guaranteed lead time Lowest price to attract freight flows currently travelling by HGV

26 7. The Euro Carex Railports Rail terminals designed to handle airfreight containers Tracks & platforms in the main building They will be sized to ensure unloading & loading in record time. At CDG, a set of 4 tracks, each flanked by 2 platforms of 400 meters = 2 trains Platform width of around 20 metres in order to provide a turning circle at the platform end of the tractor-drawn "dollies" the main building will also contain offices for official services such as customs, technical services and facilities Ancillary buildings in the public and as well in the secure regulated areas to provide storage for empty containers and less urgent freight to be dispatched A road terminal to receive trucks arriving from the public road network. 26 Site Access Continuity of Security Restricted Areas (SRAs) and customs-regulated between the airport and the railport for internal flow by a dedicated road. For external flows to the airport, incoming freight will be security-checked and processed via an access control point.

27 27 7.The Euro Carex Railports

28 8. The Euro Carex rolling stock The competitive dialogue with Alstom & Siemens As High Speed Trains currently exist only in passenger versions, Euro Carex has launched a competitive dialogue procedure to which Alstom and Siemens have responded. It has been requested to supply details of the ability to manufacture 20 interoperable trains at speeds up to 300 kmph fitted with the loading units most commonly used by airfreight operators guaranteed loading/unloading time of 15 minutes cost estimates, delivery lead times Maintenance solutions Approval & financing solutions 28 The 2 proposals were presented in December 2008 Confirmation of the technical feasibility The floors of the wagons will be identical to that used in specialist airfreight trucks and aircraft => ball transfer units & rollers Each train will be able to carry more than 100 tonnes of freight the equivalent of 1 B F or 3 A310F or 7 HGV (Heavy Good Vehicles) Price : 25 M per train set

29 8. The Euro Carex rolling stock 29 ROLLERS BALL BEARING MAT

30 8. The Euro Carex rolling stock Technical zone 30

31 31 8.The Euro Carex rolling stock

32 32 9. The Euro Carex rolling stock

33 9. Some data & figures The data communicated are currently being-up updated They will soon be consolidated for the Euro Carex business plan. Main investments The Euro Carex trains : between 600 and 700 million for 20 units according to the manufacturer and options selected. Maintenance costs not included Railway connection to HSL: cost depending on the length and complexity. It varies from 10 million to over 100 million per site «Railport» terminals : between 15 million for a basic terminal with 2 tracks and 25 million for a bigger one Estimation of annual expenses for the first phase (operations) 125 M in 2015, with the first phase of the Euro Carex network Of which 86 M for rolling stock, train maintenance, driving, energy, train paths (slots), branch line maintenance 33 Official Carbon emission report Considering the determined volumes, the Euro Carex trains will approximately emit 35 times less Carbon than the aircrafts and the trucks which are currently used.

34 10. Project status progress 2011 European works in addition to local studies: European study on train paths in the process of being finalized : RFF coordination with its counterparts Infrabel, ProRail, Eurotunnel, HS1, DBNetz, related to GEC-Carex Relations with railway companies by GEC CAREX : Competitive dialogue with railway operators interested on traction, pricing and sales, organization of operation investment in rolling stock Expression of global needs Announcement of a SNCF / Eurotunnel partnership via their respective subsidiaries Geodis-Fret SNCF and Europorte in order to form a European rail consortium. The SNCB shows its interest. Additional market studies in progress. First results in October priorities European consolidated business plan & Transport plan in progress Looking for National & European fundings Looking for extra volumes: select and approach the main logistics and transport carriers with the aim to increase load factors Based on the volumes identified today, the average load factor is 58 %. The break-even-point is reached at 75%

35 The Euro Carex Executive Commitee - Contacts Euro Carex / Roissy Carex : Ms Agnès COUDRAY, Managing Director +33 (0) acoudray@roissy-online.com Assistant : Ms. Carole SIGONNEAU +33 (0) csigonneau@roissy-online.com Roissy Carex : Mr Stéphane GARNIER +33 (0) stephane.garnier@adp.fr Lyon Carex : Ms Marie-Christine BERNIER (0) lyoncarex@lyonaeroports.com Liège Carex : Mr Serge KREINS +32 (0) extern.skr@liegeairport.com ; Assistant : Ms Jacqueline WEYNAND - jwe@liegeairport.com London Carex : Mr François COART +33 (0) Francois.Coart@eurotunnel.com SADC / HST Cargo Schiphol : Mr Arjen DONKERSLOOT +31 (0) A.Donkersloot@sadc.nl 35

36 Thank you for your attention