In the 2014 Hupac it has transported on track 660 thousand street shipments (+0.5%)



Last year the Swiss operator of arranged transport Hupac has transported on track a total of 660.109 street shipments, with an increment of +0.5% on the year precedence. "The conjunctural weakness, in particular in Italy, the more important market than destination of the transports of Hupac - it has explained the company - has continued to influence on the market question. In Core business of the transalpine transport through Switzerland, Hupac has been able to maintain own volumes. The transport through Austria has recorded a decrease (- 8.0%), while in the not transalpine transport it has been possible to obtain an increase of 5.7% thanks to new connections".

For the 2015 Hupac it previews that the question remains stable. "Factors of insecurity - it has specified the Helvetic operator - are the current decrease of the price of the diesel engine, that it favors the transport on the road goods, and the new parity frank euro/, that goes to the detriment of the competitiveness of the traffic offer through Switzerland".

Today while, on invitation of the Hupac, the representatives of a hundred of enterprises of transport and logistics of all Europe have visited the yard of the tunnel of base of the Gottardo, the long tunnel 57 kilometers that will allow to cross in plan the Alps and to improve the conditions of production for the transport on track. "The construction work - the managing director of constructor AlpTransit has confirmed, Renzo Simoni - proceeds according to program". The construction of longer the railway tunnel of the world already is completed, while the installation of the railway technical members has exceeded 90%. "After the inauguration on June 2, 2016 - it has explained - the test phase will begin, during which the first freight trains and passengers will be able to cross the tunnel. The mass in regular exercise will follow therefore to December 2016, with the introduction of the new timetable of the trains".

"Shortly - the director of Hupac has commented, Bernhard Kunz - the European logistics will be able to take advantage of the new infrastructure". Emphasizing that this will determine new conditions picture on the Rotterdam-Genoa axis, Kunz has remembered that the field, but, will have to be adapted to new conditions: two years after the opening of the tunnel of base of the Gottardo, in fact, the contributions of exercise granted from Switzerland for the arranged transport transalpine will be reduced and in 2024 completely eliminated. "The best possibility than to manage this challenge - it has found - is in the solid increase of the productivity of the arranged transport". Therefore in future more tons for every train will have to be transported, that he will be technically realizable on the plain railroad. According to Hupac, the fact that the arranged transport can operate on the market without subsidies is demonstrated by the numerous offers of success on the East-West axis. A key factor - for the Helvetic company - is the prices of the traces: "we need - Kunz has explained - of a system of prices of the traces harmonized on the axis north-south through Switzerland, with clear incentives in favor of the heavy trains". Hupac has admonished that if instead the improvement of the productivity will be absorbed by the price of the traces, it will not be possible to compensate the reduction of the contributions of exercise and the railroad will lose in competitiveness regarding the road.