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Has the Czech Republic witnessed a The centre in Lovosice is at the most industry, i.e. the transportation of
harmonisation of conditions for the advanced stage, where the basic terminal components to factories and the dispatch
rail and road sectors in terms of is already operational and trains already of finished products – cars for customers,
applying charges to the use of the provide connections to German ports, for holds a major share in first position.
road infrastructure? example. Other locations are found in We are also now concentrating more
Yes. On the one hand we certainly Brno and the Ostrava area, where we are on “just-in-time” carriage. Beforehand,
welcomed the introduction of toll preparing a logistics project for the this “timing of logistics”, i.e. storage and
collection on Czech roads last year, but on Hyundai car plant in Nošovice. In contrast distribution, was performed by the
the other hand we are somewhat to the TPCA car plant in the Kolín companies themselves at their own plants.
disappointed by the fact that the method district, the local internal sidings should be Now the trend is to move these activities
of collecting tolls is still not fair from our built more generously so that it is possible from the plant and transfer them to
perspective as rail carriers. If we compare to transport not only cars, but the logistics companies, which ensure
the total amounts collected in charges majority of components required for their distribution from their own warehouses
during the past year in the individual manufacture. Otherwise we are also trying for a number of customers. We intend
sectors of freight transport to initiate the construction of sidings to to win a greater share of customers and to
(rail: 4.5 thousand million crowns, road: factories. Various programmes, including offer our existing customers added value
5.5 thousand million crowns) and relate government programmes, are in existence through support for the construction of
these figures to output in tonne-kilometres for their construction. The financing of logistics terminals and the connection of
(where road transport achieves these should therefore be a sort of mix: distribution warehouses to the railways,
approximately four times the output of the state ought to pay for the rail as well as cooperation with road haulers.
rail transport), we discover that road infrastructure and whoever provides the Our strategy generally involves the
transport pays only approximately 30% of storage areas, buildings and carriage focus on our customer, reliability, the
the amount paid by rail transport for mechanisation has to pay for constructing development of logistics and related
using the infrastructure. What is more, in of these services. In other words, our services and greater cooperation with
contrast to the road sector, an company as well. partners – with national and other
infrastructure charge is paid for the whole carriers, partners from the road transport
network in the railway sector. This is not What are your visions for company sector and logistics partners. The logistics
to mention the issue of so-called development and what do you see is companies create logistics chains and
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externalities; in other words external the future of CD Cargo? we need to be an active part of this.
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costs. For this reason we would welcome We want to concentrate more on the For this reason, CD Cargo holds shares
at least a gradual convergence of the carriage of commodities that require in certain logistics companies, for
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structures of both systems for collecting greater participation from the perspective example BohemiaKombi or CD Logistics.
these charges as soon as possible. of organisation and logistics, which is We are aware that if we want to succeed,
more complicated but charges more. This we must be involved in this form
What instruments do you plan to use form of carriage was and is to this day the of cooperation.
to increase your share on the domain of road transport. We want to
transportation market? transport the traditional commodities of
Mainly developmental programmes, of rail carriage, such as bulk commodities,
course. We aim to concentrate on building materials and wood, as well as
updating the rolling-stock, supporting the components for the automotive industry
construction of logistics centres that are and palette goods, and to increase the
connected to the railways and improving volume of container carriage.
the quality of the services we provide to Another essential step is to broaden
our customers. Only using this strategy the spectrum of services for customers. By
biography
will we be able to continue the tempo of this I mean ensuring related services.
growth in carriage established in Logistics terminals should in future also
Josef Bazala
forthcoming years, when our output has serve as distribution warehouses, which
Josef Bazala graduated from the University of
risen by approximately 4% per annum. are often an extension of production
Transport and Communications in the Slovak
We plan a more expansive renewal of the plants at the moment. Companies which
city of Žilina. He began work for Czechoslovak
Railways in 1981. Mr. Bazala then worked for
rolling-stock, whereby we have to flexibly deal with logistics then provide
the private logistics company Spedi-trans
adapt the structure of wagons we offer to distribution from these warehouses for a
Praha between 1996 and 2003, before
returning to Czech Railways in 2003 in the
suit customer demand. This currently number of companies. And that is our aim
position of 1st Deputy Director General. He
concerns container cars, for example. – to assert ourselves more on this market.
was CEO of Czech Railways between 2005
and 2008. Josef Bazala became CEO of ČD
We currently have a number of plans The market in the Czech Republic is
Cargo in February 2008.
in the sphere of building logistics centres. growing in this sector. The automotive
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