In February, the total mass of goods transported by rail amounted to 16.78 million tonnes, which is 1.64 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. Meanwhile, the transport performance increased by 5.18 percent to the level of 3.52 billion tonne-kilometres. In the first 2 months of 2014, the PKP CARGO Group’s market share in terms of mass transported was 47.45 percent, and in terms of transport performance, it was 58.06 percent.
The PKP CARGO Group remained the market leader in terms of both mass transported and transport performance. Compared to the results from the first 2 months of 2013, the share in terms of mass fell by 0.5 percentage points, while in terms of transport performance, it decreased by 1.7 percentage points.
– The highest share of PKP CARGO in the rail freight market in terms of mass and performance positions us as the undisputed leader in rail freight transport on one hand, while on the other, it forces the necessity of constant process improvement and care, above all, for the quality of services for our clients. We are constantly working on strengthening our position, consistently developing and implementing such logistics solutions throughout the group that, thanks to their innovation, increase our portfolio of competencies for a wide group of rail freight service recipients – says Jacek Neska, Commercial Director of PKP CARGO S.A.
The next places in terms of mass transported were taken by DB Schenker Rail Polska (20.23 percent), PKP LHS (4.53 percent, an increase from 4.08 percent a year ago), Lotos Kolej (4.00 percent, an increase from 3.94 percent), and Freightliner PL (3.25 percent, an increase from 1.07 percent a year ago).
In the case of DB Schenker Rail, the data are incomparable because the 2014 data refer to the company DB Schenker Rail Polska, while the 2013 data include the share for the entire Group. The same applies to the CTL Group, which in the 2014 UTK data is included as three companies (CTL Logistics, CTL Rail, CTL Train with shares of 3.12 percent, 0.87 percent, and 2.18 percent, respectively).
In terms of transport performance, the PKP CARGO Group’s market share was 58.06 percent (a decrease from 59.75 percent). In terms of transport performance, the runner-up in the market is Lotos Kolej with a share of 7.96 percent (7.71 percent a year ago), followed by PKP LHS in third place (6.82 percent vs 6.79 percent a year ago), then DB Schenker Rail with a share of 6.35 percent, and CTL Logistics with a share of 5.31 percent.
As with the mass, the data for DB Schenker Rail and CTL Logistics are incomparable due to the change in the methodology of presenting results by the UTK. In the case of the CTL Group’s transport performance, only the results of two out of the eight Group companies are currently published. According to UTK data, 57 carriers are operating in the rail freight market in 2014.