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In the first half of the 2013 enlivened traffic arranged accompanied from Hupac it is not diminished of 1.4%
Kunz: "the railway system must go to any length in order to guarantee that the productivity you increase ulteriorly"
August 5, 2013
In the first half of the 2013 operated traffic arranged accompanied from the Hupac Helvetian it has not recorded an light decrement having attested itself to 327.366 street shipments, with a bending of 1.4% regarding 332.007 shipments in the first six months last year. In particular, the transalpine traffic is diminished of 1.3% to 218.079 shipments and that not transalpine is dropped of 1.7% to 109.287 street shipments.
Commenting the data on the traffic totaled in the first semester of this Hupac year it has explained that "also in first semester 2013 it is lasted the conjunctural weakness that give the end of 2011 stop the commercial exchanges in all Europe and reduces the transport question for services. Particularly difficult - it has specified the Swiss intermodal operator - it is the situation in Italy, the main market of destination of the services of transport of Hupac. For the next Hupac months an unchanged situation of traffic attends. However it turns out problematic, in the current recessive context, the increase of the railway costs against street costs tending to the decrease". "The railway system - it has found the director of Hupac, Bernhard Kunz - must go to any length in order to guarantee that the productivity you increase ulteriorly. The processes between traction, terminals and question of the market must be integrated in optimal way. There are wide margins of improvement that we want to take advantage of together with our partner".
Hupac has evidenced the necessity to invest in a modern railway infrastructure with adaptation of the shape to 4 meters of the railway corridor through Switzerland until the terminals in Italy, being allowed to transport on the railway wagons the street semitowings and vehicles with lateral height of 4 meters. "Central element for the rail shipment goods on the Rotterdam-Genoa corridor - it has observed the Helvetic company - is the opening of the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo in 2016. But the plain railroad alone is not sufficient to strengthen the competitiveness of the track. The project of the corridor of 4 meters on which the Swiss Parliament it will decide in the next few months, previews the increase of the profile of section and the lengthening of the overtaking railroads. Draft in plain, long railroads of overtaking, high profile: when these are satisfied three infrastructural conditions, the operators of the railway transport goods produce to lower costs. This places the bases for the reduction of the exercise subsidies. Moreover, it is possible to approach the segment of the semitowings of 4 meters, being realized ulterior effects of transfer. It is important to preview the extension of the corridor of the 4 meters until the terminals to south via Luino and Chiasso. The pre-financing of the work of construction in Italy is necessary in order to take advantage of the potential one of added value as soon as possible". "Without an adaptation of the lines until the terminals in Italy - it has concluded Kunz - the economic usefullness of the project is cancelled on the entire corridor".
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