In the first half of the 2012 volume of traffic transported from the Hupac it is diminished of 11.7%



In the first half of the 2012 intermodal operator Helvetic Hupac it has enlivened a volume of traffic in the arranged transport not accompanied pairs altogether to 332.007 street shipments, with a bending of 11.7% regarding the first semester last year. The transalpine traffic is diminished of 11.7% to 222.425 shipments and that not transalpine is dropped of 11.6% to 109.582 shipments.

The company has evidenced as to the decrease of the volumes, besides the conjunctural weakness that give the end of 2011 are stopping the commercial exchanges in all Europe and reducing the transport question for services, has contributed significantly the numerous interruptions in March happens in the railway net and in particular the block of five days and the new block of the duration little less than four weeks in june of the line of the Gottardo, month this last one in which Hupac it has recorded a loss in volume of 36.8% in its Core business of the alpine transit via Switzerland.

Hupac has remembered that during the interruption of the line of the Gottardo the society has striven in any case in order to preserve at least partially the transport ability on the axis north-south. In particular, through the shunting line of the trains on the line of Domodossola and, to a lesser degree, on Modane (Frejus) and Brenner, Hupac the feared difficulties of supplying and losses of production have succeeded to maintain weever in wide leave the offer of transports through Switzerland avoiding so. Hupac has but specified that for some relations of traffic on drafts breviums, as Baden-Württemberg-Italy or Basel/Aarau-Ticino, it has not been possible to find some useful alternative and this it has involved a partial return to the transport on the road that it has not been still possible to recover completely.

The Helvetic company has emphasized the heavy consequences provoked from the block of the line of the Gottardo: if on one side Hupac has succeeded to safeguard own net of transport arranged in spite of the interruption of the main artery of European traffic in order more weeks - it has explained the society - from the other the reduction of the traffic has produced a serious deficiency of cover of the fixed costs. The single direct damages - Hupac has denounced - are quantifiable in million franchi.

"The natural catastrophe of the Gottardo - it has observed the director of Hupac, Bernhard Kunz - has put in evidence the vulnerability of our system of transport". The society has evidenced as the maintenance of the current net of traffic imposes therefore of the participations extraordinary in the within of the current system of supports and as some preventive measures, which for example an international system of coordination of the yards and adapted emergency plans, can reduce the risk of an interruption of the traffic.