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H.Essers - Train Terminal
In order of Mr Buurman
Noor al Husni 0797177 IBMS 330

1. Introduction 2. Background information 2.1 History of Centrum Transport Romania 2.1.1 Some milestones 2.2 The company now 2.2.1 Organizational structure 3. Current train-terminal 3.1 General information 3.1.1 Location 3.1.2 Organizational structure 3.1.3 (Un)loading trains 3.2 SWOT-analysis 4. Competition 4.1 Do the competitors (have plans for) transport by train? 4.2 Competitive advantage 4.2.1 Costs road transport from Genk to Oradea 4.2.2 Costs train transport from Genk to Oradea 4.2.3 Other (dis)advantages – Rail VS. Road 5. Conclusion & Summary 6. Recommendations 7. Resources

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Centrum Romania is one of the main logistics providers on the Romanian market in the design and delivery of advanced supply chain solutions. It is the Romanian branch of Centrum Group Europe. In 2005 Centrum Group Europe was taken over by the Belgian logistics and transport provider H.Essers Groep. In this research the reader will be provided with detailed information about H.essers Groep, its background information, current train terminals, how to improve, the best solution how to deal with competition and several other topics regarding train transportation. In addition, this study also provides the advantages and disadvantages of the rail and road transportation. This study can be used in a Logistic environment although it is based on H.Essers and the area where it is located – Romania. The researcher is analyzing these environments and the outcome of this research will be given to Mr Buurman.

“Established in 1928, Groep H.Essers has grown into the largest family transport and logistics company of Belgium, with 2.250 employees, spread over 26 branches in 12 European countries.” “Groep H.Essers offers customers personalized and integrated transport and logistics solutions through Europe.”

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Centrum transport was originally a Dutch

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