shift2030 wants to demonstrate best practices and fresh ideas to vitalize rail freight.
An open network with like-minded partners — including freight forwarders, shippers and solution providers — we demonstrate how rail freight can become more competitive.
This decade will be crucial to initiate measures in order to tackle climate change. It is widely acknowledged that major efforts need to be made short-term.
So far the EU transport sector failed to reduce CO2 emissions
Whilst other sectors did improve over the past 30 years, the transport sector failed to reduce GHG emissions. Any initiated measures to decarbonize the transport sector literally got burned by growing transport volumes.
The dominant way of transporting goods still is on road, with all its well-known negative effects. At the same time, eco-friendly rail freight did not catch up. Besides all pledges, plans and good intentions: a modal shift from road to rail has not been achieved so far.
But… new technologies are available now
New technologies and solutions have the potential to make rail freight more competitive and attractive. Short- to mid-term, rail is the only transport mode that can significantly reduce GHG emissions — and there is strong willingness among shippers, freight forwarders, politics and associations to strengthen rail freight in the coming years.