In the first semester of this year the Swiss ports on the Rhine have enlivened a traffic of the goods pairs to 3.172.289 tons, in decrease of 14.3% regarding 3.702.921 tons in the first half of 2012. In the solo first trimester of the 2013 traffic has recorded a bending of 16.3% regarding the same period of 2012, while in according to trimester of the 2013 decrease it has been of 12.4% on the correspondent period last year.

Port of Switzerland, the society that manages these Helvetic fluvial ports of call, has specified that the decrease totaled in the first half of this year is ascribable almost entirely to the contraction of the liquid fuel volume as last year, because of the temporary closing of the Cressier refinery, was recorded remarkable quantitative additional of imports, ulterior volumes that are this year not imported.

the traffic of the container has been pairs to 51.864 teu, with a progression of 3.4% on the first semester of the 2012 (traffic is increased of 10.6% in first trimester 2013 and is dropped of 3.3% in the successive trimester) .