In the 2014 Hupac it has recorded a trading profit of 7,5 million franchi Swiss (+15.0%)



In the 2014 society of arranged transport Hupac it has recorded a trading profit of 7,5 million franchi Swiss, with an increase of +15.0% on the exercise anniversary precedence. The revenues from supplies and performances are piled to 476,6 million franchi Swiss (- 0.7%). Last year the volume of rail shipments enlivened from the Helvetic group has been pairs to 660 thousand street shipments (+0.5%) ( on 30 January 2015).

Introducing today the results of the exercise the 2015 president of Hupac, Hans-Jörg Bertschi, has explained that this year the company is found in front of new challenges, with a loss of value of the euro regarding the Swiss franc and with the prices down of the oil that stimulate the road traffic through Switzerland: "the induced effects to take it in turns Swiss franc/euro and from the decrease of the price of the diesel engine - it has clarified - they have determined clearly an increase of the railway transport costs regarding the street transport". Bertschi has evidenced that, since the transport on the road is able to react quickly to this competitive improvement, is the risk of a removal from the arranged transport and therefore of a new transfer of the volume of transports of the goods towards the road.

Moreover in the 2014 level of operating quality of the rail shipment, understanding as punctuality of the trains, is gotten worse clearly recording an average annual of 70% of trains circulated respecting the timetable, since it corresponds to a loss of 10 points percentages regarding 2013. Hupac has found that such deterioration of the quality of the railway activity is riconducibile among other things to problems of resources for the railway enterprises, to infrastructural problems which work of construction, to technical defects and single problems of ability let alone to the damages caused from the bad weather and strikes.

The Swiss company has emphasized that in the 2015 quality of the railway services it quickly has an ulterior worsening reaching an average of 66%. "If the railway system does not invert the tendency - the director of Hupac has denounced, Bernhard Kunz - comes unhooked from the market and we lose competitiveness regarding the road more and more". Hupac has rimarcato the necessity of an European strategy of improvement of the quality in the railway traffic goods: "to know the entity, to evidence the reasons in transparent way, to start countermeasures, to control the total system through indicators and benchmark - Kunz has explained - so we succeed together with controlling the situation".

Moreover, according to Hupac, it is necessary at the beginning to take advantage of the opening of the tunnel of base of the Gottardo, previewed of 2017, as occasion for giving new impulse to the transfer of the traffic from the road to the track. The Helvetic society has remembered that the alpine cross-sectional new with the tunnel of base of Gottardo (2017), the tunnel of base of Ashes (the 2020) and corridor of four meters (2020) is conceived for the employment of longer, heavy and high trains and offers potential of saving elevated regarding the production costs, for example shortening the times of distance and eliminating the multiple traction. "To get ahead the transfer of the traffic in economically independent way, that is without subsidies - it has found Bertschi - a great collective challenge represents. Hupac works intensely with own partner to measures in order to increase the productivity of the wagons, the locomotives, the terminals and the staff, with the objective beginning from to compensate the abolition of the contributions of exercise 2024. For our projects of investment the New Transalpine Railroad is already today a truth". With the new plain railroad through the Gottardo, beginning from the 2020 freight trains until 750 meters of length and 2,000 tons of weight will be able to journey between the North Europe and Italy. However Hupag has observed that the first simulations of the structures of the costs, that they contemplate the reform of the prices of the traces previewed for 2017, leave to catch a glimpse that the objective of the autofinanziabilità beginning from 2024 is not approachable from the today's perspective and that therefore the opening of the tunnel of base of the Gottardo goes accompanied from ulterior measures that strengthen the competitiveness of the transport on track. Explaining that the new system of prices of the railway traces previews an light decrease of the prices for the freight trains until 1.600 tons via Gottardo, while for the trains from 2.000 tons the prices become clearly more beloveds because of the employment of a second locomotive, Bertschi has specified that "this that lacks is incentives in order to increase the productivity of the traces - that they are a insufficient good - with heavy and long trains". "So - it has complained - the previewed increase of efficiency of the gallery of base and the corridor of the four meters is lost". Hupac therefore has recommended that, in conformity with the systems of the near countries, a factor of productivity with constant rates is introduced beginning from 1,300 gross tons.