Pol-Rail is the ideal partner for all companies operating within the Eastern European area. Its business is rail freight transport for any kind of merchandise on any type of route. 

In 2005 Pol-Rail handled in excess of 1.75 million tonnes of goods, mostly carried using fully laden trains. Thanks to its structural and partnership network, Pol-Rail can offer an impressive range of integrated logistics services to its customers, both in the industrial sector and among international shipping companies.

Today Pol-Rail can be considered, and rightly so, one of the major MTOs in the sector of rail freight transport to and from Eastern Europe.

Its strategy focuses on four principal lines of traffic, with the offer of complete transport management services: the Polish line, thanks to the PolExpress shuttle service, the Hungarian and Romanian lines, with the Romtrain, Transpannonia and Cargo-Rom products, and, finally, the Balkan axis with the Transbalkan service.

PROFILE

Pol-Rail puts itself foward too as the ideal partner for wagon management, monitoring their position along the route and organizing their reloading to optimize both its service and costs.

Its role as a transport broker enables it to expand the range of services on offer with great ease and flexibility:

1. Origin-destination offering, sustained by a thick network of strategic partnerships with the major operators in the sector; 

2. Organization of rail routes in synergy with the managing Networks; 

3. Rail transportation and accessory services: 

- terminal facilities 

- warehousing and cross docking 

- tracking 

- supply chain management; 

4. Development of feasibility studies for the creation of new lines of traffic using the Group's know-how.

QUALITY 



For Pol-Rail S.r.l., innovation and quality have always been crucial to its high level of competitiveness, and represent a key strength and a constant feature of all the services offered.

The attention paid to our customers, through our will to provide the greatest level of customer satisfaction by continually searching for dedicated and bespoke solutions to fulfil all of our customers' specific demands, has always been a priority over mere profit-seeking. 

Our high quality standards, obtained through production and communication processes that are constantly monitored by our Quality office, comply with the main national and international regulations currently in force.

In this respect, Pol-Rail S.r.l. has undertaken the development and documentation of the corporate system of Quality Assurance based on the UNI EN ISO 9001/2000 standard.

LOGISTICS SERVICES

A critical success factor in the current transport market is the availability of local networks in the various countries which ensure widespread nationwide presence, up-to-the-minute information, and transport monitoring.

Pol-Rail has the suitable structure to offer logistics services in Eastern European countries:

• Direct presence in: Poland, Hungary, Romania, Belorussia and Russia; 

• Local partners in: Austria, Czech and Slovakian Republics, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece; 

• Low operating costs: outsourcing tariff making in Hungary and Romania, software development in Poland;

• Advanced IT system: web-based system linked to the national railways' IT systems.



With services running several times a week, along four main axes – Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and Balkan - Pol-Rail is able to carry your freight to destination, guaranteeing low costs and short journey times.

Services are offered through dedicated inland terminals located in Cervignano, Sopron, Curtici, Varsavia, Brest.



• Organization of terminal facilities in all the main Polish locations.

• Service centre in Brest.

• Concentration of freight on platforms and door-to-door deliveries (Italy, Romania, Poland and Hungary). 



• Purchase of origin/destination tariffs.

• Wagon monitoring and search.

• Escort organisation (CSI).

• Pre-arrangement of loads on European wagons.



• Terminal with customs warehouses connected by sidings to Brest, Moscow, Budapest, Zahony, Belgrade and Arad.

• Own warehouse located at the Cervignano inland terminal.

• Specialist equipment available to transfer cargo onto other modes of transport. 



• Single tariff for all the services provided.

• Tariff inclusive of cargo transfer fees (CSI and Baltic Republics).

• Issue of no-tampering certificates (CSI).

• Insurance of cargo

• Reforwarding and centralisation of delivery notes at transit points (Eastern area).

• Handling all customs/administration formalities on the customer's behalf.

ROLLING STOCK

Pol-Rail owns a wide range of freight wagons of various types and capacity, dedicated to both national and international traffic. 



These wagons are split into various types: covered, flat bed, high-side, hopper and with removable covers, in order to meet all the diverse requirements of ordinary traffic and, above all, for carrying bulk solids (such as coal, sands, iron ore and other products of the mining industry, scrap metal, iron & steelwork, both finished and semi-finished products, timber products, etc.).

In addition to ordinary wagons, some categories also include specialist wagons, designed for carrying specific commodites:

• Covered, temperature-controlled wagons for foodstuffs such as fruit & vegetables;

• Wagons with sliding side doors suitable for cargo on pallets;

• Piggyback models and/or with telescopic covers for steel coils;

• With decks equipped for the transport of containers, mobile boxes and semi-trailers;

• Well/pocket wagons, featuring a "well" located between the bogies, at a lower height than a flat bed wagon, to accomodate loads of exceptional weight or exceeding the maximum loading gauge permitted, etc.



There are over 7,500 privately-owned freight wagons and these are dedicated to the transport of cargo requiring specific environmental, storage and stocking conditions. For this reason, they tend primarily to be of a specialist kind, such as:

• Single and double-deck for the transport of motor vehicles;

• Hopper wagons for cereals and for general grain products with bottom-discharge doors and sometimes fitted with an automatic discharge system;

• Refrigerated and insulated wagons for temperature-controlled cargo (inter-refrigerated vans);

• Closed wagons of large and very large capacity, suitable for the carriage of bulky items, even on pallets, etc.

Such wagons are marked by the code letter "P", have a special numbering system, and carry either on the sides or along the deck, all the information about the name and address of the wagons' owner, in addition to the standard details regularly shown for all Italian State Railways' (FS) wagons. This category of wagons includes those used by the owners for their own purposes and those which are contracted out to third parties. The latter are transferred on an exclusive use basis to whomever applies in this respect to the owner; the transfer is regulated by standard hire contracts.