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Last year the intermodal operator German Kombiverkehr has operated 927,200 shipments (- 4.7%)
Previewed an increment of the activity in 2013
January 18, 2013
Last year the society of intermodal transport Kombiverkehr has recorded a decrease of the enlivened cargo volumes, but the German company has announced that 2013 are begun with a rise of the activity. "We preview - the managing director Robert Breuhahn has explained - than our shipment volumes will grow more in way consisting regarding the economy in its together. This partially because of the current question of the customers relative to new railway services and ulterior ability. But also because in the second half of the year of the 2012 we have activated various new trains and ulterior lines, and in the 2013 this it would have to begin to be reflected fully in the trend of the volumes". The society has specified that to the increase they will contribute also numerous new projects that Kombiverkehr has in course in order to increase the ability and to improve the capacity of its services.
In the 2012 Germanic company it has operated altogether 927,200 shipments, with a decrease of 4.7% regarding the year precedence, of which 707,500 international shipments (- 5.0%) and 219,700 national shipments (- 3.7%). Kombiverkehr considers that the decrease of the volumes, recorded after two consecutive years of increase, is chargeable to two causes: "from our point of view - Breuhahn has explained - the critical factor was the state of the economy, in particular in the second half of the year. This has been about to some time aggravated from the been extended closing of the alpine transit, is because of the closings in program for the step of the Brenner that because of those not programmed in Switzerland". The company has emphasized that both the causes have had in a 2012 remarkable impact on the shipment volumes because the services through the Alps via Austria and Switzerland consisting are more enlivened by Kombiverkehr in terms of volumes.
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Last year the society of intermodal transport Kombiverkehr has recorded a decrease of the enlivened cargo volumes, but the German company has announced that 2013 are begun with a rise of the activity. "We preview - the managing director Robert Breuhahn has explained - than our shipment volumes will grow more in way consisting regarding the economy in its together. This partially because of the current question of the customers relative to new railway services and ulterior ability. But also because in the second half of the year of the 2012 we have activated various new trains and ulterior lines, and in the 2013 this it would have to begin to be reflected fully in the trend of the volumes". The society has specified that to the increase they will contribute also numerous new projects that Kombiverkehr has in course in order to increase the ability and to improve the capacity of its services.
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