TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT
An entire Department is dedicated to this activity, with the main mission of leading and managing the rail traffic safety policy across the entire network.
The Transport Department is responsible for organizing, assembling and controlling transport production. It implements a logistics approach consistent with sales ambitions, oversees station operations and train driving, and designs and implements the transport plan.
From the formation of the train to the final destination of the passenger or the goods, they are assistant drivers, shunting drivers, line drivers, station managers, transport safety managers, switchers or shunting agents, regulators... who participate and ensure the safe movement of passenger trains and freight trains. A total of 595 employees – men and women – who work every day for rail traffic across the entire network.
Train movements throughout the network are coordinated by the Command-and-Control Station (CCS). This unit is in permanent contact with all trains in circulation, thanks to the modern telecommunications systems deployed by CAMRAIL. The members of the PCC work around the clock, day in, day out, to ensure that trains are kept on schedule, and that priority is always given to passenger trains
CAMRAIL optimizes the daily implementation of the transport plan in its 03 phases (pre-operational, operational and post-operational), taking into account the needs of the contributing structures: fixed installations, equipment, freight and passengers. It ensures optimum management of the freight wagon fleet and coordinates the provision of operational logistics solutions in line with allocations and priorities. Analyzes and reports on transport production.
The company plans routes and organizes evacuations in accordance with the transport plan, following consultation with the coordinating operational teams. It optimizes train movements in line with the transport plan, provides central incident management for operational teams, pilots the deployment of rescue and recovery resources in line with requirements, and keeps the duration of main-track interruptions to a minimum
CAMRAIL also guarantees the proper maintenance and use of OKAPI, the rail traffic management software. It ensures traffic reporting, sets up a safety watch within the Command-and-Control Station (CCS), and implements the operational measures adopted by the Crisis Management Unit, where necessary
CAMRAIL periodically determines transport capacity by wagon type. To this end, it implements a schedule of wagon assignments by customer, drawn up jointly with the Sales and Marketing Department, as well as the container loading program. It communicates monthly and decadal availability commitments to each customer's logistics teams and to the Sales and Marketing Department.
It organizes logistics deployment at the various production sites in line with customer requirements (SMN, SOMAC...), and guarantees the balance of logistical accessories (tarpaulins, straps, tie-down wires, plastic film...) according to the loading schedule for each generic.
The Transport Department periodically analyzes production performance (punctuality, transit-time, regularity, etc.), transport and logistics operations, and line time losses. It ensures technical monitoring of production operating methods within the coordinations, proposes action plans packed with corrective measures for deviations identified by the analyses, and prepares feedback following analysis of incidents and operating disruptions. Finally, it produces periodic (ten-day/monthly) analyses of transport activities.
