photo: Akiem/BREAKING: Banque des Territoires and Akiem create the TerriTrains consortium in support of passenger rail rolling stock. All you need to know
Akiem, the European leader in the leasing of railway rolling stock, and the Banque des Territoires have joined forces through the TerriTrains consortium to offer the State, the Regions, and the railway companies solutions for the financing, acquisition, and management of passenger train fleets. With the creation of TerriTrains, Akiem and the Banque des Territoires intend to support the territories in a context of competition for rail services, important needs of financing of the sector, and increasing stakes of mobility.
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Within the framework of the Law for a new railway pact, the Regions can reappropriate the management of passenger trains to improve the quality of the railway service, while controlling the ownership and operating costs of the rolling stock fleets. It is in this perspective that Akiem and the Banque des Territoires are mobilizing to propose to Transport Organizing Authorities an innovative solution offering the implementation of platforms for the financing and management of rolling stock fleets. This initiative is materialized by the creation of a consortium, named TerriTrains, which has been in operation for the past few weeks.
While more than EUR 5 billion are spent each year by the State and the Regions to finance the Regional Express Transport (TER) and the Trains d'Équilibre du Territoire (TET), the alliance between the Banque des Territoires and Akiem will allow them, in a context of opening to competition, to outsource the financing and the technical management of the railway rolling stock within the framework of a long term lease and to benefit, thanks to Akiem's expertise and competences, from a solution that will allow:
- covering the entire value chain of the rolling stock, from the management of calls for tender with manufacturers to the daily management of the vehicles
- promote economies of scale through the pooling of their needs
- clarify responsibilities between the equipment owner, the Transit Authority, and the operators.
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Industrial expertise at the service of territories and the general interest
Akiem is a French company, active in more than 21 European countries with nearly 80 customers, both freight and passenger rail operators. Convinced that rail is the transport and mobility solution of the future, Akiem provides concrete and efficient solutions to the railway market, notably through its maintenance services, its expertise in fleet management, the transformation of equipment, and its ability to manage calls for tender for the acquisition of new equipment.
Through its engineering and financing activities, Banque des Territoires contributes to the emergence of a sustainable living environment and economic development in all regions. In this respect, it attaches particular importance to the renewal of regional and inter-regional rail transport with a view to territories that are more attractive, sustainable, and inclusive, both for daily trips and for more occasional long-distance travel.
The alliance between the Banque des Territoires and Akiem will allow the State and the Regions to benefit from the expertise in railway rolling stock of a leading company in its field while having the assurance of taking into account the challenges of general interest.
"With the Banque des Territoires, we have the desire to serve the local authorities and to develop a "public-private" rental offer that guarantees the Organizing Authorities the best possible quality/price ratio, in a professional, sustainable and transparent manner. The vocation of TerriTrains is to be a technical, contractual, and financial facilitator to accompany the public authorities in the development of the rail offer and a catalyst for the development of rail transport," says Fabien Rochefort, the President of the Akiem Group.
"By setting up the TerriTrains offer with Akiem, we wish to support the Organizing Authorities of mobility, first and foremost the Regions, in the process of opening up rail transport to competition in France and, more generally, to contribute to the renewal of regional and inter-regional rail transport. This solution for carrying railway rolling stock will give them access to the expertise of the Akiem Group, and will guarantee non-discriminatory access to rolling stock for all railway operators selected by the Regions," comments Pierre Aubouin, the Director of the Infrastructure and Mobility Department, at the Banque des Territoires' Investment Department.
For more information: www.akiem.com/fr/solutions/territrains
Source: Akiem Press Releases
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