„COME TO the TRAIN“: Private freight Railways are designed to counteract the Initiative of professionals-lack of

14 private freight companies Seemed to be at the Initiative „COME TO the TRAIN“ – it makes on the sustainable and diverse careers in the industry to the attention of

Vienna (OTS) – The Austrian rail freight transport hundreds of workers are missing up to the year 2025. „Particularly the private providers are affected by the shortage of skilled workers,“ says Andreas Mandl, Chairman of the Committee for transport of goods, the trade Association for the rail cars in the economic chamber Austria (WKÖ).

„We are mainly looking for reinforcement in the technical Professions train drivers, wagon masters and Shifter. On the Online platform [www.komm-zum-zug.at] (http://www.komm-zum-zug.at/) can inform the interested public about the profession and directly in the case of the companies applying,“ says Mandl.

The basic premise of the Applicants for the different professions is a basic understanding of the technology and interest for the industry. The advertised Jobs are not only for young workers in search of a training place, but also for older job changers is interesting. „We train the professionals in our company, a driver training, for example, takes ten to twelve months,“ added Mandl.

Industry Of The Future Rail Freight Traffic

The rail freight transport in Austria is growing sharply, for years, it’s advent is an upward trend in the transport. In the year 2017, the volume of freight transport was Rail 118.8 million net tons. This is a Plus of 6.9 percent in the years 2013 to 2017, compared to The gross domestic product rose in the same period was only 6.5 percent.

„Especially in the railway-specific Occupations such as train driver, Shifter and wagon master, the industry assistance Junior. The Initiative of the Private rail freight cars is at this time extremely important. It is one of our most important tasks is to strengthen our professionals and apprentices, and to our industry as an attractive employer to develop. The Austrian Railways offer their employees a future-oriented jobs and good prospects for development“, Austrian Federal economic chamber-trade Association-Chairman Thomas Scheiber concludes.

For more information about the respective Professions and the Vacancies in the rail company from Salzburg, upper Austria, lower Austria, Styria, Burgenland and Vienna, see [www.komm-zum-zug.at] (http://www.komm-zum-zug.at/). On this platform the application process is quick and straightforward.

The initiators and members of the skilled workers campaign, COME TO the TRAIN are:

* Cargo Service GmbH

* European Locomotive Leasing Austria GmbH

* Graz-Köflacher railway and bus operation GmbH

* Locomotion Austria

* LTE logistic- & Transport-GmbH

* MEV Independent Railway Services GmBH

* NSB, and Raab railway

* RTB Cargo Austria

* Styria railway

* Stern & Hafferl Verkehrs-gesellschaft m. b. H

* TX Logistik Austria GmbH

* Wiener Lokalbahnen Cargo GmbH

* Safety4you Site Logistics GmbH

* VPI Association of private freight car interested parties
A photo on the Initiative, see [https://bit.ly/2TkU5dt] (https://bit.ly/2TkU5dt)
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