Port of Antwerp launches:

Rail Freight Conference - Antwerp - 11 February 2010

Program

• 09.00 Registration + coffee
• 09.45 Welcome by M. Van Peel, Vice-Mayor of the City of Antwerp & President of the Antwerp               Port Authority
  
  
•   Part 1
• 10.00 The future of rail freight in Europe (Theo Notteboom)
• 10.30 IFB: The intermodal operator of SNCB Logistics (Geert Pauwels)
• 11.00 Hupac: A Swiss intermodal operator with Antwerp as a hub (Alberto Grisone)
• 11.30 Combinant: Antwerp's new intermodal gateway terminal to Europe (Ben Beirnaert)
• Lunch
•   Part 2
• 13.00 Van Moer Rail: Container milk run in the port of Antwerp (Joost Van Lierde)
• 13.30 ERS Railways: opportunities and challenges in Belgium (Alan Gibson)
• 14.00 Rail projects Port of Antwerp (Helen De Wachter)
• Break
•   Part 3
• 15.00 The customer point of view (Monica Heiming, ERFA)
• 15.30 Infrabel at your service in the port of Antwerp (Kris Van Crombruggen)
• 16.00 SNCF Fret Benelux : New Brand - New Vision (Anthony Lucas)
• 16.30 Rurtalbahn Cargo Group - Flexible and Competitive Transportation Solutions between               Belgium and Germany (Jeen Brouwer)
• 17.00 Closing Speech: Etienne Schouppe, State Secretary for Mobility
• 17.30Closing reception
• 19.00End

Venue: Stuurboord, Hangar 26, Rijnkaai 96, Antwerp