Director General
UIRR – International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport, Belgium

Mr. Ralf-Charley Schultze is 51 years old and lives in Vienna with his family. Before going to Austria he was responsible during five years within the freight department of the swiss railways (SBB Cargo) for the combined traffic, the automotive business and the partner management. In this time he had the opportunity to practice liberalization and to experience so called coopetition. He has an international background, speaks fluently five languages and studied law in Germany, France and England. 10 years in different logistics and forwarding companies in Europe gave him a solid logistics background and enabled him understanding, organizing and implementing logistic processes, meeting the real needs of the market. The last five years he was director for multimodal logistics within the GEFCO group, responsible for the development of multimodal business all over Europe, with a strong focus on Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Since the 1st of January 2014 Mr. Ralf-Charley Schultze is director general of the UIRR, the international union for road-rail combined transport in Brussels.