In the 2013 result of exercise of Hupac it is crescito of +49.5%



In the exercise anniversary the 2013 Helvetic operator of arranged transport Hupac has recorded a turnover of 480,2 million franchi Swiss, with an increment of Swiss +5.7% regarding 454,5 million franchi in the exercise precedence, and a profit of exercise Swiss pairs to 6,6 million franchi (+49.5%), turned out - he has specified the company - to which they have contributed also to the societies participated with an sensitive increment of the profits regarding the year precedence.

Cash flow has had a positive evolution and to end 2013 it piled to 50,8 million franchi Swiss (+5.6%), while the material investments have been attested to 9,7 million franchi Swiss with a decrease of the -70,9% regarding the exercise precedence, decrease - Hupac has explained - that is riconducibile above all to the smaller necessity to invest in rotabile material due to still the modest question of transports and to the greater consequent availability of wagons to the optimization of the activity of maintenance in the property workshops.

We remember that in the 2013 volume of traffic enlivened from the Helvetic company it has been pairs to 657 thousand street shipments, in increase of +1.7% on the year precedence ( on 31 January 2014).

Hupac has manifested satisfaction for the results achieved in 2013 and has expressed confidence in the positive course of the activity in the years to come thanks to the new opportunities for the development that will be introduced, before between all the entrance according to the gallery of base of the Gottardo previewed for December 2016 that - has emphasized the Helvetic group - "it will clearly involve an improvement of the conditions picture for the transport arranged in the alpine transit through Switzerland. The new plain railroad - it has found Hupac - will make to save on the costs, for example with the shortening of the draft and the abolition of the multiple traction. However - it has specified the company - the entire axis of traffic north-south will only reach its full efficiency after 2020, when the opening of the gallery of base of Monte Ceneri and the adaptation of the corridor to the profile of four meters is a truth". According to Hupac, "he is therefore fundamental that within 2017 is at least prepared a first axis for lengths of train of 750 meters until the terminals of northern Italy. This - it has remembered the company - would be possible thanks to the agreement on the traffic goods recently undersigned from Switzerland with Italy, than discipline also the financing of the works". "The increase of the length of the trains from current the 550 meters to 750 - it has observed the president of Hupac, Hans-Jörg Bertschi - will afford, after the opening of the gallery of base of the Gottardo, to increase the productivity of the intermodal transport and to strongly transfer on track a very greater number of transports".

Between the initiatives times to pick the new opportunities of increase, Hupac has announced the institution of the new business unit Company Shuttle. "The arranged traffic - it has explained the Swiss company - is a market expanding in which an increasing number of conveyors it has volumes for complete trains. For the customers disposed to assume the risk of exploitation of the train, from the autumn 2014 Hupac will offer to the service "Company Shuttle". While Hupac will concentrate on the organization of the trains block, the others members of the service which rotabile material, operations of transfer, management events etc, could be inserted in optional way based on the specific requirements of the customer". "The new business unit - it has specified Bertschi - holds account of the evolution of the market. While the customers with a small volume of transports benefit of the advantages offered from the immense net of Hupac, the enterprises of transports with adapted engagement in terms of volume, will be able to plan and to reserve with we the their specific complete trains".