Hupac previews an improvement of the results of the intermodal transport on the transalpine axis north-south



Hupac attends a next improvement of the results of the intermodal transport on the transalpine axis north-south as a result of the modernization of the lines of access to the previewed railway net from the bilateral agreement Italy-Switzerland, improvement - it has evidenced the Helvetic operator of arranged transport - that will increase the question of transports on track. If for the 2014 Hupac it previews a stability situation, with a light increase of the transported volumes, the entrance according to the gallery of base of the fixed Gottardo for December 2016 - it has explained the company - will involve clearly an improvement of the conditions picture for the arranged transport and the Italian logistics. The new railroad Alptransit plain - it has specified Hupac - will allow a saving of costs, for example with the shortening of the draft and the abolition of the multiple traction.

"The transport goods - it has found the president of Hupac, Bernhard Kunz - is vital for the Italian economy. Every container on the intermodal trains is integrated in a logistic row that creates hundred of places of work. If we improve infrastructures, we return the logistics and the economy more competitive guaranteeing the occupation in our area". The Swiss company therefore has rimarcato the importance to as soon as possible modernize the line of access to Alptransit as expected from the recent agreement on the traffic goods undersigned from Italy and Switzerland that the financing of the works disciplines also. According to Hupac, detail importance covers the railway line Bellinzona-Luino-Gallarate/Novara that could be ready already in 2017. The work, previewed until from the Nineties in an optical of efficientamento of the railway traffic goods - it has remembered the society - regards the lengthening of the railroads of overtaking for long trains until 700 meters and the lowering of the railroads in order to allow the transit of higher trains; it remains unchanged, instead, the ability to the line in terms of number of convoys in transit. "The upgrade of the line of Luino - Kunz has said - will improve the productivity of the intermodal transport and will afford to ulteriorly develop a section that has created thousands of places of work near the directly involved companies and in the induced one, a field that has held well in spite of the economic crisis".

Commenting today the results achieved from the company in exercise 2013 ( on 12 May 2014), year - it has emphasized the company - conclusosi in satisfactory way with a light increase is in terms of volume that of turnover, Hupac has announced that in the 2013 intermodal terminal of Arsizio-Gallarate Bust it has recorded a light resumption of the activity regarding the year precedence having been reshipped 367,989 intermodal transportation units against the 360,789 of 2012, pairs to an increase of +2%. Moreover first months of 2014 - it has specified the Swiss society - have made to mark an ulterior increase of the traffic of beyond +7% regarding the year precedence and such positive development has mainly had to the introduction of two new traffics beginning from the month of september 2013 (Busto Arsizio - Quarry Tigozzi and Busto Arsizio - Herne).

While Hupac has announced that from the 2016 all own trains will be to lowland phonic emission. Remembering that from 2001 it is converting own park systematically wagons to the new technology of the so-called "silent brake", in a position to halving the level of the noise perceived regarding the today's wagons goods of traditional type, the company has announced that to end 2013 93% of own wagons turned out equipped with brakes realized with material resinous composite to lowland phonic emission. The conversion of the park wagons - Hupac has confirmed - will be completed within end 2015 and from the 2016 all Hupac convoys they will be to lowland noisiness, while successively an ulterior reduction of the acoustic emission of 5 decibels could be obtained solo through the adoption of Disc brakes, brakes that Hupac will experiment already in the course of 2014 leading of the measurements of noisiness and the operating tests. The company already has in program the order of a first series of endowed wagons pocket of Disc brakes.