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New business models to bring innovation to international rail-retail

Mark Mallants, Co-director of benerail & Leen Dewicke, Product Manager Commerce at benerail
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Booking an international train journey, especially one involving several countries, can present difficulties. Well-known rail YouTuber Thibault Constant in recent comments to RailTech compared it to solving a Rubik’s cube. Mark Mallants and Leen Dewicke at international combinability experts benerail explain what is at the heart of the situation and what can be done to ease this situation.

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Author: Nick Augusteijn

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New business models to bring innovation to international rail-retail

Mark Mallants, Co-director of benerail & Leen Dewicke, Product Manager Commerce at benerail
Mark Mallants, Co-director of benerail & Leen Dewicke, Product Manager Commerce at benerail benerail

Booking an international train journey, especially one involving several countries, can present difficulties. Well-known rail YouTuber Thibault Constant in recent comments to RailTech compared it to solving a Rubik’s cube. Mark Mallants and Leen Dewicke at international combinability experts benerail explain what is at the heart of the situation and what can be done to ease this situation.

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Author: Nick Augusteijn

Former Chief Editor of RailTech.com

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