SŽ Efficiency – training
SŽ Efficiency – training
As Slovenia’s national railway company, Slovenske železnice (SŽ) operates about 200 freight trains and 500 passenger trains per day. The company plays an essential role in linking the port of Koper to its European hinterland. With the subsidiary Fersped SŽ also offers road forwarding and logistics services.
While several network sections have been electrified and upgraded in the recent past, operating trains in Slovenia in a reliable and profitable way is still a challenge. This is partly due to bottlenecks on single-track lines and to the need for new appropriate equipment. In addition, rail transport in Slovenia faces strong competition by other transport modes and by other Mediterranean ports. Infrastructure measures such as a second track between Koper and Divača will improve the situation, but they will not be available in the near future. The SŽ management team thus intends to improve the company’s efficiency in the short and medium term. During the first audit phase TransCare identified 22 measures to increase the efficiency. 12 measures of which were defined as a scope of the expert training program.
TransCare’s expert training program covered the crucial business activities of SŽ and was accomplished within fifteen months. The main objective of the training program was to provide the management of the key companies with the knowledge base on how to meet the future challenges of rail business in Europe. The main content of the program: