Competitiveness of rail freight transport in Slovenia

S prihodom liberalizacije, ki s sprostitvijo trga omogoča vstop tujih železniških prevoznikov na slovenske tire, postaja konkurenca vse ostrejša. Zato vsako podjetje teži k nenehnemu izboljševanju storitev in prilagajanju trgu. V našem diplomskem delu smo analizirali poslovanje in konkurenčnost tovornega segmenta v podjetju Slovenske železnice. Pri tem smo si pomagali s statističnimi podatki in se opirali na številne kazalce produktivnosti. Za boljšo predstavo o konkurenčnosti železniškega tovornega prometa v Sloveniji smo ga primerjali s sosednjimi državami in podrobneje z Avstrijo. Ugotovili smo, da produktivnost železniškega tovornega prometa v Sloveniji kljub slabemu finančnemu poslovanju narašča. Razlog za to je predvsem v znatnem zmanjševanju števila zaposlenih v zadnjih letih. Ugotovili smo tudi, da železniški tovorni promet v Sloveniji ni konkurenčen v primerjavi z Avstrijo. To dokazuje podatek, da večina kazalcev produktivnosti slovenskega železniškega tovornega prometa dosega le tretjino avstrijskih vrednosti.The arrival of liberalization and, subsequently, market deregulation enables foreign railway companies to enter Slovenian market and results in keener competition. Therefore each company aims towards market adaptation and constant improvement of their service offers. In our degree paper we analysed the operation and competitiveness of the freight sector in the company Slovenske železnice (Slovenian Railways). We helped ourselves with statistics and based our work on numerous productivity indicators. To illustrate the competitiveness of rail freight transport in Slovenia, we compared it to our neighbouring countries, particularly to Austria. We came to the conclusion that productivity of rail freight transport in Slovenia is, in spite of bad business conduct, increasing. The main reason for that lies in significant staff reductions in recent years. We also found out that rail freight transport in Slovenia is not competitive in comparison to Austria. This is confirmed by the fact that most productivity indicators of freight rail transport in Slovenia reach barely one-third of the Austrian values