In the 2012 enlivened volumes of intermodal traffic from Hupac they are dropped of 10.7%



In the 2012 volume of transports enlivened from the operator of intermodal transport Hupac it has recorded a decrease of 10.7% having attested itself to 646.214 street shipments. "This - it has explained the Helvetic company - is imputable to the decrease of the question which had to the conjunctural weakness - above all in Italy, the more important market than destination of Hupac transports - and to the greater competitive pressure exercised by the transport on the road. The numerous interruptions have moreover weighed on the result negative happen on the line of the Gottardo". "The landslides fallen near Gurtnellen in freedoms of expression, june and November - it has remembered the society - have in fact tax little less the block total of the railway line in order than 40 days. In spite of shunting lines operated on the line of the Lötschberg/Sempione, these events have by themselves involved a loss of volume of 6% on base anniversary. A part of the lost transports up to now could on the road not have been recovered. Other limitations have come from the work of construction in course on the axis of the Lötschberg/Sempione. On the whole, the segment of the transalpine traffic through Switzerland therefore has marked a decrease of 12.4%". On such director, in fact, 374,953 street shipments regarding 427.973 in 2011 are enlivened. In the transalpine traffic through Austria, instead, Hupac has recorded an light increase of 0.7% from 53.053 to 53.425 street shipments that - it has explained the company - "are returned possible by the efficient corridor of four meters that allows to transport the modern semitowings of great dimensions with lateral height of four meters".

Last year the enlivened not transalpine traffic from Hupac has totaled a decrease of 9.9% coming down from 241.647 street shipments in 2011 to 217.697 in 2012. "It goes cited - it has specified Hupac - a consolidation of the offer in the segment of the traffic of import/export between the nordeuropei ports and Switzerland. On guiding Benelux-Austria/Hungary/Rumania, Benelux-Poland/Russia and Belgium-France/Spain the recession has turned out relatively moderated".

Hupac has remembered the measures assumed from the society in order to adapt to the offer to the volatility of the markets, operating "a moderated reduction of the circulation of the trains on some drafts. It is moreover proceeded - it has specified - to the suspension of some not remunerative lines in peripheral regions". Moreover, on the plan of the costs, "Hupac has reduced own fleet of wagons and adapted the abilities to the terminals". "The volatile markets - it has observed the director of Hupac, Bernhard Kunz - are new normality". Kunz has found that also the railway system must hold of account if it does not want to remain behind regarding the most flexible system than transport on the road: "we must take advantage of every opportunity - it has explained - in order to increase the productivity and to pull down the costs. Railway enterprises, operating, terminal: everyone must give its contribution. Also the States have of the important tasks to acquit, for example in vigilance and interoperability matter on the market".

According to Hupac, "rises of the prices as those to which it is being assisted at the level of railway infrastructure, of energy and maintenance wagons can slow down the development of the arranged transport. "The market of the transports - it has emphasized Kunz - continues to find itself under strong pressure and for 2013 our forecasts they are prudent".