Barcelona Campus
Training in maritime and intermodal transport at the Port of Barcelona
The SURCO courses go beyond standard rail-intermodality training and delve into comprehensive port to rail operations. Our students are offered the opportunity to study intermodal operations within the port of Barcelona as well as in some partner ports around Spain during special SURCO course editions. The additional lectures offered ensure that a complete knowledge of these is acquired by the students in an eminently practical environment.
Rail Intermodal Transport
In this course, participants gain a complete view of national and international railway connections. Highly experienced professionals explain first-hand how operations are organised, managed, and developed in such logistics infrastructures.
5 to 7 days
Custom
Spanish
Barcelona / Madrid
Barcelona: with visits to facilities in Zaragoza and in Perpignan (France)*
Madrid: in collaboration with Puertos del Estado (Spain) with visits to the intermodal facilities in Madrid
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Tuition fee depends on the edition of each course.
- To analyse the different elements necessary to contract rail transport and its associated costs
- To get to know the infrastructures and intermodal equipment that allow for the use of rail transport as part of the multimodal transport chain
- To promote the use of rail transport by disseminating its characteristics and particularities
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
It is necessary to have completed the SURCO Port-Rail Operations course or to have some previous knowledge of: logistics and railways actors and railway infrastructure and equipment.
LECTURES
- Railway management and operations
- Legislation applicable in Spain. Law of the railway sector, regulation and liberalization
- Rail transport: context, evolution, European policy and the TEN-T
- Transport & environment & EMC calculations
- Railport-transport: tmZ as a bet for the future
- Contracting and international rail transport
- Intermodal systems
- Management of railway terminals and services
- Analysis of transport costs
- International rail freight services
WORKSHOPS
- Visit to the traffic control center of ADIF – Zaragoza
- Visit to Terminal Marítima de Zaragoza (TmZ)
- Visit to Portbou rail terminal
- Visit to the Lorry rail terminal in Le Boulou (VIIA)
- Visit to Linea Figueres Perpignan (LFP)
- Visit to Morrot rail terminal
Case Study
- Train configuration and network characteristics
