There is no expectation that these networks will be created in the near to medium term because of the limited numbers involved, according to Neubecker. "The freight sector, which typically leads the field for new market entrants, is now making some interesting and informed comments on what the freight industry needs, which is a more streamlined, cost-effective freight network." Although most network providers have shifted more towards conventional freight networks over the past few years, containers are perhaps the most successful network product of the previous ten years. The majority of earlier system expansion initiatives got underway in 2005, the year Schneider's European infrastructures made their debut.