Some figures

In the course of the 35 years since the founding of the UIRR, road-rail CT traffic has grown to an extent that neither the railway undertakings nor the political champions of this mode of transport, principally found in Germany, Switzerland and France, then in Austria and in Italy, could ever have imagined. At the end of the 80s, the growth of UIRR traffic had achieved results more or less equivalent to those of maritime container transport, with annual increases in excess of 20%.

The record of the UIRR member companies can be summarised as follows:

• Establishment in 35 years of an extended European CT network (direct, shuttle and consolidated trains) with reliable partners who are leaders in their national markets
• International volume tripled in 15 years (from 1990 to 2006)
• Total volume transported doubled in 15 years (from 1990 to 2005)
• More than 5.6 million EVP/TEU transferred from road to rail in 2005
• More than 11,000 long-distance lorries retired from the road
• More than 13,000 wagons under own management
• More than 250 transhipment yards proposed (with more than 100 under own management)
• More than 500 CT trains en route daily throughout the European Union
• More than 28,000 trains underwent quality inspection in 2005
• More than 2.3 million loading units processed in the CESAR online tracking system regularly used by more than 400 clients
• More than 9,000 clients