FERRMED

FERRMED is a non-profit association that was officially founded and registered in Brussels on the 5th of August 2004.
It is a multi-sectoral association that came out of the initiative from the private sector in order to enhance the European competitiveness by promoting the so called “FERRMED Standards”, the improvement of Ports and Airports connections with their respective hinterlands, the conception of Great Rail Freight Axis Scandinavia-Rhine-Rhone-Western Mediterranean, and a more sustainable development through the reduction of pollution and climate change emissions.

Objectives

• To encourage the establishment of FERRMED standards in the rail freight transportation network in the European Union.
• To improve the ports and airports connections with their respective hinterlands in the European Union and in the neighbouring countries.
• To obtain the declaration of “priority axis” by the European Commission for all the main branches of FERRMED Great Axis Network.
• To stimulate the improvement of management/operational systems and free competition in the rail freight transportation network in the European Union.
• To promote new “utilisation” procedures in order to optimize railway transport and the combined/intermodal freight transport using the railway. 
• To improve the general competitiveness of the European Union through the global chain of added value (particularly in the rail freight and multimodal transport) through the application of the R+D+4i management philosophy.
• To contribute to a more sustainable development through the reduction of pollution and climate change emissions.