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LTG Cargo Polska: We are looking for niches and waiting for Rail Baltica

“The existing directions in the development of LTG Cargo Polska will be continued,” announces the new CEO of LTG Cargo Polska, Laimonas Nekrošius. In the coming years, we expect to offer additional services and, as more customers are acquired, to increase the frequency of connections. Plans for the more distant future include transportation to Latvia and Estonia using the future Rail Baltica.

The leader of the Polish LTG company emphasizes that its position in the Polish rail freight market is strong – especially in view of its relatively short period of operation.

“We have been able to attract many partners. The growth opportunities in the Polish market are enormous. The most important growth factor will be attracting freight from road transport to the railroads,” predicts Nekrošius.

The “little corridor” will become great

“Our strategy is ambitious: we will invest in the Polish market operations and introduce new services to maintain the growth of our shares,” announces Nekrošius.

Within a few years, the line connecting Lithuania to Poland, today described as a “little corridor”, is expected to grow to great proportions. LTG intends to extend it northward, but this is a matter of the next few years (It will depend, among other things, on progress in the construction of Rail Baltica, the commissioning of which will speed up train traffic and improve rail accessibility in the Baltic States). The new CEO of LTG Cargo Polska also aims to expand its service offer to Germany and Italy.

Shippers value flexibility

The biggest challenge in the Polish market is still intermodal and taking over from road transport as much as possible of the cargo shipments between Lithuania and Poland and Germany, which today reach 30 million tons per year.

“Customer expectations are high, especially when it comes to flexibility. We are striving to simplify the service for shippers and tailor it to their needs as much as possible,” says Nekrošius of efforts to make railroads more competitive.

“I believe in the advisability of the EU’s pro-rail policy. The only question is how quickly individual member states will implement it, and what their representatives determine in Brussels this year or next,” declares Nekrošius. In his opinion, rail, as the most environmentally friendly means of land transport, will continue to increase the scale of transportation.