Decrease in 2012 of the traffic goods through the Swiss Alps



In the 2012 volume of the goods journeyed through the Swiss Alps is redescended under the historical threshold of 40 million clean tons, exceeded for the first time in 2008 and successively in 2011, attesting itself to the 37,5 million one tons, with a contraction of 6.4% on 2011. On the whole the decrease has been marked in the railway section, that it has totaled 23,7 million tons (- 7.5%), than on that street one, that it has recorded a traffic of 13,8 million tons (- 4.5%).

The Helvetic Federal Office of Transports (UFT), communicating such data, has explained that in the 2012 economic situation, above all in Italy, it has had an impact negative on the transport of goods through the Swiss Alps and that they have recorded also unexpected as the closing in June of the railway line of Saint Gottardo as a result of the been detached landslide to Gurtnellen.

In the street traffic goods the decrease of the transalpine transits of heavy vehicles has been emphasized in the second half of the year of 2012 (- 5.4%) regarding first (- 3.6%), for a total of 1,209 million truck on the arc of the year. Draft - it has found the UFT - of a value inferior of 14% regarding the year of reference 2000, but still advanced to the value limit established in the Swiss law on the transfer of the traffic goods that previews 650,000 race annual from 2018.

In the railway traffic goods, instead, the decrease has been greater in first semester (- 11.1%) regarding the second (- 3.4%). The sensitive difference between the two semesters - it has specified the UFT - is explained in particular with the closing of the line of Saint Gottardo from on 5 June on July 2, 2012, than in these four weeks it has made to throw down the transits on this axis at less than 200.000 clean tons against 1,2 million the other months. During the closing of the line of Saint Gottardo the traffic goods strongly is increased on the axis of the Lötschberg-Sempione. However, this has not been sufficient to compensate the found contraction is in the first semester that in the second on this corridor, in its turn remained closed in August for three weeks because of work of reorganization.

The arranged transport accompanied (TCNA) has not turned out less the most hit in 2012 (- 4.4%): the axis of Saint Gottardo, the more important for the traffic north-south, has newly introduced a positive tendency in the second half of the year. It has remained instead negative the evolution of the transalpine transport in complete wagons and of travelling road (respective -12,8% and -11,4% on the arc of 2012).