Brochure Consulting: Transport & Logistics - HaCon

Consulting
Transport & Logistics
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Consulting Transport & Logistics
Every project is a new challenge. The more complex
the task, the more crucial to know what is
essential.
You feel confident. HaCon will advise and
support you in the implementation of your
projects for rail freight services, in particular for
combined transport. Our consultants have extensive
experience and offer new perspectives.
The project teams are assembled corresponding
to your individual needs and thereby provide
the necessary holistic approach.
You are successful. Continuous and sustainable
growth is our top priority because your success is
our objective. Therefore we develop solutions fit
for practice – tailor-made to your requirements.
We support you in strategic planning, the development
and implementation of efficient processes
and the profitable exploitation of cuttingedge
technologies for rail transport.
You make an impact with innovative solutions.
You deal successfully with the challenges
the market has to offer. Using the right strategy
you leave the competition behind. Everything a
walk in the park, thanks to HaCon Consulting.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible - but
not one bit simpler."
Development and coordination of research
projects
Globalisation and the growing international
networking of rail freight services confront
companies with increasingly complex challenges.
Anyone who is able to react quickly to
market changes has a distinct advantage over
the competitors.
Through a holistic and result-oriented approach
projects managed by HaCon Consulting can
successfully guide you to this advantage.
Therefore our interdisciplinary team exploits its
entire potential and uses many years of experience
from managing projects for the European
Commission as well as national projects.
Our consultants provide you with the needed
support from the offspring of the project idea
to the implementation. They take care of the
application and negotiation of project funding,
the coordination of all involved parties such as
railway companies, shipping agents and other
institutions and associations as well as the entire
project management. This includes the technical
coordination and the handling of all financial
and administrative issues.
Specific
requirements
and framework
conditions
Funding assistance
New ideas and offers bring companies and rail
freight services forward. This often requires
significant capital investments. Policy makers
have set up several programmes to strengthen
the competitiveness of rail freight and reduce
the cost risk of the participating companies: for
example, the funding programmes for railway
sidings and intermodal transhipment terminals
in Germany as well as the Marco Polo programme
of the European Union.
We advise you on the possibilities for receiving
co-financing, we create your grant application
including any evidence, support you in the implementation
and document the results to the
funding authorities.
Development & coordination
of research projects
Funding assistance
Transport and
operational concepts
Policy consulting
Traffic data
and market analysis
Reference projects
• EU-project CREAM
• EU-project TIGER
• Applications for funding according to the
funding rules for combined transport of the
Ministry of Transport
Tailor-made
solutions
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Transport and operational concepts
We develop strategies and production concepts
for freight transport in international networks.
In addition, we design operational and infrastructure
concepts for ports, shunting yards
and industrial railways. In short, we consider
the entire transport chain – with all intermodal
interfaces. Thereby, we profit from our extensive
know-how both in rail freight and in intermodal
transport.
For our work we rely on modern planning and
analysis tools. If appropriate we also fall back
on our own software solutions. The result: an
optimal exploitation of all resources and smooth
transport processes.
Continuously changing processes of production
and value creation require cost-effective and flexible
logistics. We help you define your strategic
and operative objectives. Basis of our work is
analysing the present situation in detail.
We show you possible improvements in your
processes, both internal and interacting with
your partners and customers, to save resources
and costs. This also includes existing railway
production systems, relevant infrastructure and
necessary transhipment equipment.
Reference projects
Optimising
• production and carriage concepts in
combined transport (e.g. XpressNet – natio-
nal funding project for a more intelligent
freight logistic, "Masterplan" for the
rail freight traffic development in the ports
of Hamburg and Lübeck)
• operation and transport programmes for
combined transport terminals (e.g. Groß-
beeren, Duisburg)
• production plans for single waggon traffic
(e.g. restructuring the freight traffic of CFL,
process optimisation shunting yard Bettem-
bourg)
• infrastructure and operations of major
industrial railways (e.g. BASF, ArcelorMittal)

Policy consulting
Keyword: Greater sustainability in freight transport.
HaCon supports political decision makers
inter alia evaluating funding guidelines or developing
strategy papers and action plans. We run
workshops, coordinate necessary processes and
give recommendations.
Our consultants accompany you through all
phases of the project and create an objective
basis for your decisions.
Traffic data and market analysis
Competition in the transport market becomes
significantly stronger. That makes it even more
important for companies in the freight traffic
and logistics sector to base their planning on
debitable information about future market
developments.
A broad expertise of the business allows HaCon
to make qualified forecasts concerning the
development of the international rail freight
market by taking relevant basis data into
consideration. We also create scenarios for the
Reference projects
• Development of the "Freight Transport and Logistics Masterplan" for
Germany
• Workshop about the reference scenario in combined transport 2015
• Action plan for combined transport Netherlands-Czech Republic
• Analysis and evaluation of the funding programme for the installation
and reactivation of rail connections and of the requirements and the
prerequisites for future funding of intermodal terminals under
consideration of the efficiency of the funding rules for combined
transport
Reference projects
• Reference scenarios for combined transport in Germany
• Requirement planning for combined transport as part of evaluations of
funding rules market analysis and prognosis within the European Union
intermodal market and help you to optimise
your current market position.
A holistic approach based on reliable and extensive
information is essential for us. Therefore
traffic data and market analysis are an integral
element of the majority of our projects.
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Selection of projects
• TIGER – Transit via Innovative Gateway concepts solving European Intermodal Rail
needs ( EU-project, 2009-2012), www.tigerproject.eu
• Analysis of the requirement and the prerequisites for future funding of intermodal terminals
under consideration of the efficiency of the funding rules for combined transport (Ministry of
Transport, 2007/08, 2010/11)
• CREAM – Customer driven Rail freight services on a European mega-corridor based
on Advanced business and operating Models (EU-project 2007-2011), www.cream-project.eu
• XpressNet (Project funded within the funding initiative "Intelligent logistics in commercial
transport" by the Ministry of Economy (DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG, DB Netz AG, DHL
Freight GmbH, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co. KG, Dt. Umschlaggesellschaft
Schiene-Straße mbH, Kombiverkehr GmbH & Co. KG, 2007-10)
• Analysis and evaluation of innovative transhipment technologies in combined transport
(Ministry of Transport, 2009)
• Grant application for the terminal Wilhelmshaven according to the funding rules for combined
transport (EUROGATE GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG, 2008/09)
• Terminal study on the freight corridor Rotterdam – Genoa (Ministries of transport of involved
countries, 2008)
• Action plan for the improvement of conditions for rail freight on the corridor Netherlands –
Czech Republic (Ministries of transport of involved countries, 2007/08)
• Grant application for the third construction stage of the KTL terminal (BASF) Ludwigshafen
according to the funding rules for combined transport (BASF SE, 2007/08)
• Analysis and evaluation of optimisation possibilities of operating procedures of the steel mills
Differdingen and Belval as well as the marshalling yard Bettembourg (CFL Cargo, 2007/08)
• "Freight Transport and Logistics Masterplan" for Germany (Ministry of Transport, 2007)
• Masterplan for the development of freight transport by rail out of the Port of Hamburg – Rail
production und network (Hamburg Port Authority, DB Netz, 2006/07)
• Masterplan for the development of freight transport by rail out of Lübeck Harbour (DB Netz,
2006/07)
• BRAVO – Brenner Rail freight Action strategy aimed at achieving a sustainable increase of
intermodal transport VOlume by Enhancing quality, efficiency and system
technologies (EU-project, 2004-2007), www.bravo-project.eu
• TREND – Towards new Rail freight quality and concepts in the European Network in
respect to market Demand (EU-project, 2005/06), www.trend-project.eu
• Organisation, implementation and evaluation of the results of a workshop about the Reference
Scenario 2015 with combined transport players in Germany (Ministry of Transport, 2005/06)
• Arcelor Huta Warszawa: Strategy for future rail freight infrastructure and operation (Arcelor
Warszawa, 2005/06)
• Grant application for the terminal Bremerhaven according to the funding rules for combined
transport (EUROGATE GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG, Bremerhaven, 2005)
• Reference scenario for the future development of combined transport rail-road in Germany
(Ministry of Transport, 2005)

Selection of customers
• ArcelorMittal AG, Luxembourg
• ArcelorMittal Warszawa Sp. z o.o.
• BASF AG, Ludwigshafen
• Ministry of Transport (Germany)
• Ministry of Economy (Germany)
• CER – Community of European Railway
• CFL – Société nationale des chemins de fer
Luxembourgeois
• CFL Cargo
• DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG
• DB Netz AG
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
• DUSS – Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft
Schiene-Straße mbH
• EUROGATE GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG,
Bremerhaven und Wilhelmshaven
• European Commission
• HHLA – Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG
• Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
GmbH & Co. KG
• HPA – Hamburg Port Authority
• Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für
kombinierten Güterverkehr mbh & Co. KG
• Ministry of Economics, Labour and Transport
of Lower Saxony
Willy Brandt (1913-1992)
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Contact:
HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Lister Straße 15
D-30163 Hanover
Germany
Phone: +49 511 33699-0
Fax: +49 511 33699-99
E-Mail: info@hacon.de
www.hacon.de