Hupac a pragmatic approach to work best on the corridor between Switzerland and Italy along the Rotterdam-Genoa

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In view of the expected difficulty of access to the new tunnel on the corridor between Switzerland and Italy along the Rotterdam-Genoa, the company offers intermodal Hupac a pragmatic and gradual adaptation of existing infrastructure which has many limitations - underlines the Swiss company - affect the performance of the entire corridor.

The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017 and the Ashes in 2019 - remembers Hupac - are designed to make it more competitive freight and take off the transfer of traffic, but the issue of access links to the tunnel is unresolved and because the lack of funding the construction of new lines are likely to roll over a time far away.Therefore, the company proposes to adapt existing infrastructure to bring the benefits of the flat rail can be exploited from the moment of the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel.

The lines of existing access - explains Hupac - may be broadened and made more functional with modest means in stages, with the agreed measures within a plan of the entire international corridor Rotterdam-Genoa axis.

According Hupac, you must first increase the productivity of rail freight. The 750 meters long and heavy trains 2,000 tons - over the company - are a prerequisite for productivity and competitiveness of the rail and make the most of the benefits of the rail system. We must also increase the productivity of the rail to compensate for the decline in contributions to the management of the railway network. Essential - for Hupac - the adjustments are then cross-infrastructure of the Gotthard, now 130 years old, to align it with today's requirements in accordance with current European directives.You also need to bring rail transit line to the P400 profile in the last 20 years - highlights the Swiss company - the share of semi-doubled and now represents 60% of heavy road traffic through the Swiss Alps and to transfer this important segment market to adapt the main railway lines to the profile of 4 meters for the transport of semi-modern.

The other measures proposed by Hupac provide, for the platform and Simplon Luino Phase II, the extension to long trains of up to 750 meters with the construction on time, give priority to intermodal corridor on Luino and Domodossola that serves the current terminal of Busto Arsizio, Novara and manages more than 60% of transit traffic combined, create a terminal east of the new Milan-Bergamo is Seregno with a capacity of 30 pairs of trains per day. Also Hupac opposes the financing of intermodal corridor through contributions to the management: there is a risk - according to the company - a transfer back to the road.