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Inaugurated the new headquarters of SBB CFF FFS International Cargo to Olten
In the first six months of this year the company has made to travel beyond 15.000 freight trains
September 23, 2011
Yesterday in the Helvetic city of Olten its new headquarters of SBB CFF FFS are inaugurated International Cargo, joint venture 75:25 between railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS and the intermodal operator Hupac who is dedicated to the transalpine railway traffic between Germany and Italy ( on 5 July 2010).
The freight trains of SBB CFF FFS International Cargo are active from the beginning of 2011: "the operating activities are begun well - the managing director of joint venture has said, Michail Stahlhut, in the course of the inauguration - even if still we fight with the normal difficulties tied to the starting phase". In the first six months of this year SBB CFF FFS International Cargo it has made to travel beyond 15.000 trains employing a fleet of about 100 locomotives, half of which policorrente and therefore suitable to the international circulation.
"The transport performances - Stahlhut has explained - have made to record a good course, those that worries to us, but, it is the strong franc." The revenues obtained with the international transportations of goods, in fact, are mostly in euro, while the costs for transport through Switzerland are mainly in franchi Swiss. "The situation of the rate of exchange - it has specified - hung strongly on the development financial. We will not be able therefore neither to avoid an increase of the prices. It is lawful to presume that the traffic of transit on track through Switzerland will endure a general increase".
Initially SBB CFF FFS International Cargo operated from Basel, headquarters of SBB CFF FFS Cargo, the division goods of the Swiss railway group. The transfer to Olten is articulated in two phases: 9th May the first 45 collaborators have moved in the new accommodated center on the whole Sälihof near the train station and to July they are reached by about 40 collaborators of coordination headquarters who manage every week in cetralized way beyond 550 international trains and plan the necessary resources. In Germany and Italy SBB CFF FFS International Cargo it possesses moreover of the production societies own. Altogether the society employs about 600 collaborators; to these the machinists in Switzerland join, than for the time being they continue to being to the dependencies of SBB CFF FFS Cargo.
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Yesterday in the Helvetic city of Olten its new headquarters of SBB CFF FFS are inaugurated International Cargo, joint venture 75:25 between railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS and the intermodal operator Hupac who is dedicated to the transalpine railway traffic between Germany and Italy 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
