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SBB CFF FFS Cargo will widen the offer for the intermodal traffic in Switzerland in forecast of an increase of the market
Previewed the institution of a net of trains of line and terminal of transfer on all the national territory
July 11, 2012
Railway company Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Cargo has announced the intention to ulteriorly develop to the intermodal traffic in Switzerland widening progressively own offer for the field instituting a net of trains of line and systems of transfer on all the national territory.
This strategy is founded on the ascertainment that all over the world - it has explained SBB CFF FFS Cargo - finds the tendency to transport goods in container. This, with the crisis that is living the leading sector, ago to preview a strong increase in the intermodal traffic on the road, track and ship. "Our customers - he has found the managing director of the Helvetic society, Nicolas Perrin - are above all haulers that always heads more at the railroad for the long ones and the medium distances in Switzerland. The road and the track are always approached more, and we are able to arrange the strengths of both carriers of transport. The ancient rivalry between truck and railroad - it has emphasized - is not the future".
The offered new of SBB CFF FFS Cargo in the intermodal traffic will presee trains of line that they will connect the more important centers of Switzerland, with second fixed trains hour programmed shuttle. The company has specified that the first train pilot is already in circulation from the beginning of this year and covers two times a day, with fixed timetables, the line between Dietikon, near Zurich, and Renens, near Lausanne.
Moreover SBB CFF FFS Cargo has remembered that the company manages eight terminal already today own for the intermodal traffic goods and that this year the railway group has invested in new systems of transfer to Rothenburg and Cadenazzo that are equipped with new vehicles of transfer. Moreover, for being able to effectively manage the increasing number of container in the traffic import/export, they are previewed of the terminals for trains until 750 meters of length.
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Railway company Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Cargo has announced the intention to ulteriorly develop to the intermodal traffic in Switzerland widening progressively own offer for the field instituting a net of trains of line and systems of transfer on all the national territory.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
