Sleeping cars for TIRs
PKP Cargo has announced that with effect from November it will introduce a transit service from Rzepin on the German border to Brest Litovsk in Belarus for TIRs. The journey will take twelve hours at night and drivers will be able to sleep in special sleeping cars.
PKP Cargo hopes that it will be able to transport around 20,000 HGVs per year in this way.
This service will be run by Polkombi provided that the rail authorities agree to share the losses that will be incurred at the beginning.
Transport of lorries by rail has interested largely companies registered in Germany mainly with Russian capital. Provided that there are no problems a lorry can transit Poland in 14 E 15 hours. A train will take thirteen hours, there are usually fewer problems to hold it up and the driver can sleep meaning that he is fresh to continue in the morning. Now everything depends on the price of the ticket. A journey by road costs PLN45 for the transit, around PLN600 for the fuel and therefore the cost of the rail offer needs to be no more than PLN800 to be attractive.