the Swiss railway industry approves of the strategy of the federal Council in order to promote the traffic goods on track



In Switzerland railway societies SBB CFF FFS Cargo and BLS Cargo, the national association of the enterprises of UTP public transport and the company of the Swiss Rhenish ports Hafenbahn Schweiz have introduced a strategic document in which they list the their main demands in order to support the field of the transport goods on track and that it answers to the project of review of the law on the transport goods introduced Wednesday slid from the Helvetic federal Council.

In particular, the proposal of legislative review - that it has received approval of SBB CFF FFS Cargo, BLS Cargo, Union of public transport (UTP) and Hafenbahn Schweiz - an accentuation of the involvement of the Districts and the actors of the field in the process of planning of the railway transport previews goods that, on the whole, will be financially independent. Moreover the project of the government previews that group SBB CFF FFS is exempted by legal it obligation to supply performances in the traffic goods as task key. The federal Council intends also, for that it regards the internal traffic and that of import and export, to renounce to a objective of analogous transfer to that fixed for the transalpine traffic goods.

According to SBB CFF FFS Cargo, BLS Cargo, UTP and Hafenbahn Schweiz, "the railroad it will be able to only maintain the step with macroeconomic dynamics if on the railroads the intermodal competition works and if the enterprises can have of a margin of usable action in flexible way. This - they have found - is the single possibility to continue to being an element hard of the Swiss logistic chain". Moreover "the investments of the private ones and the public body in destined systems to the transport of the goods and the logistics will be able to only esplicare the waited for effects with a far-sighted and binding attribution of the necessary abilities to the drafts for the traffic goods. For the field - they have emphasized - the treatment with equal rights of the transport of goods and passengers now previewed in the strategic development of the net and in the attribution of the traces is the main element and between the more urgent of the message".

Moreover SBB CFF FFS Cargo, BLS Cargo, UTP and Hafenbahn Schweiz have evidenced as clear rules guarantee safety of the investments: "for this reason - they have explained - we approve of that the support financial of the traffic goods on track is allotted in priority way for the access to infrastructures and investments in innovations and installations (as the terminal and connecting lines TC). This allows us to increase in durable way the ability to performances and the productivity of the railway traffic goods". Moreover - they have continued - "the prescription enforced for the road - mainly the tax on the which proportioned heavy traffic to the performances (TTPCP), prohibition of the night and festive circulation, the limit of the 40 tons and the prohibition of cabotage - is irrenounceable for the success of the total conception and goes therefore maintained in the current terms".

SBB CFF FFS Cargo, BLS Cargo, UTP and Hafenbahn Schweiz have asked also "an institutionalized process shared for planning of infrastructures between the Confederation and the field" that it allows to define solutions answering to the necessities of the market of the transport of goods. The strategic document detailed list moreover that "the access to the systems of the traffic goods and to the terminals must happen in not discriminatory way and be open to the same conditions to the enterprises of the transport goods and to the operators of the arranged traffic".

SBB CFF FFS Cargo, BLS Cargo, UTP and Hafenbahn Schweiz have concluded emphasizing "as he is crucial, in order to preserve the competitiveness of the traffic goods, than the prices of the traces they are fixed in stable way and according to the principle of causality. An adequate increase of the traces according to their quality, of wear of the infrastructure and the specific comsumption of energy - they have specified - will have to be guaranteed to more late within the next adaptations of the system in 2017 and heading for a reduction of the cargo at the transport of the goods. The system of prices of the traces would have to also carry to the railway enterprises an elevated safety of planning on more years".