In the 2013 volume of transport arranged enlivened from the Hupac Helvetian has grown of +1.7%



In the 2013 cargo volume transported from the Helvetic operator of arranged transport Hupac has recorded an increment of +1.7% being is pairs to 657 thousand street shipments regarding 646 thousand in the year precedence. The Swiss company has emphasized that the conjunctural weakness, in particular in Italy, has still influenced on the question of the market.

In particular, in the 2013 traffic enlivened from Hupac on the transalpine director is piled to 436 thousand street shipments (+2.1%). In single Core business of the transalpine traffic through Switzerland the increment has been of +1.9% with a total of 380 thousand street shipments, while the transalpine traffic through Australia has shown a bending of the -2,1% to 52 thousand street shipments. In the transalpine traffic through France, with the start at the beginning of the year of the connection between Busto Arsizio and Barcelona, the volume has been of beyond 3 thousand shipments (+100%).

Last year the enlivened not transalpine traffic from Hupac has been pairs to 221 thousand street shipments (+0.7%), of which 66 thousand relative shipments to the Swiss traffic of import-export (+0.4%), 3 thousand to Swiss national traffic (- 4.4%) and 151 thousand to other traffics (+0.9%).

Hupac has found as the perspectives of development of the transalpine traffic are positive being attended an important transfer of the goods from the road to the track with the opening of the tunnel of base of the Gottardo in 2017 and of the tunnel of base of Ashes in 2019. "We receive with favor - the director of the company has commented, Bernhard Kunz - the agreement between Italy and regarding Switzerland of the end of January the construction of a corridor of four meters until the Italian terminals, via Luino and Uproar" (inforMARE of 28 January 2014).

Hupac has found like the investments in the Italian railway net, realized also from the Helvetic Confederation, will have a return also for Switzerland, from the moment that they afford to reduce the current destined contributions of exercise to the arranged traffic: "today - Kunz has explained - the federal government winds down the production cost of the transport arranged thanks to subsidies. Tomorrow we will be able to produce in car-sustainable way, using a modern infrastructure. Therefore the investment in Italy will be repaid quickly also for Switzerland. We leave from the foundation - it has specified first of all that the draft of Luino is widened, as does not depend on the completion of the tunnel of base of Ashes. So the transport goods on road could be transferred more fastly on new railway infrastructures".