In the first six months of the 2015 Hupac it has recorded a decrease of the -1,3% of the traffic volumes



In the first semester of the 2015 Swiss operator of arranged transport Hupac it has enlivened cargo volumes pairs to 335 thousand street shipments in the arranged transport not accompanied, with a decrease of the -1,3% regarding the first half last year. The transalpine traffic has been pairs to 215 thousand shipments (- 4.7%), of which 193 thousand shipments through Switzerland (- 2.7%), 21 thousand through Austria (- 20.1%) and 2 thousand through France (+3.8%), while the not transalpine traffic is piled to 120 thousand shipments (+5.4%).

Hupac has evidenced that in the course of the first six months of this year you strike, work of construction, incidents and technical breakdowns have weighed on the operating quality in the railway net. The company has specified that the course negative is determined in particular by numerous days of strike in Germany, France, Belgium and Italy, let alone from interruptions of the traffic due to yards and incidents.

Moreover Hupac has explained that, if in the segment of the transalpine traffic through Switzerland 2.7% of the volume of traffic regarding the first half of last year have been lost, in the transport through Austria has been necessary to suspend a connection and this has determined a bending of the traffic of -20,1%. With respect to the increase of +5.4% in the not transalpine transport, the Helvetic society has emphasized that with this the position of the company on the emergent markets in the east is strengthened, south-east and the south-west of Europe and has specified that also the intraeuropei transports, as the new connection between Colony and Malmö have contributed to the positive result.

For the remaining part of the 2015 Hupac it previews that the transport question will continue to being moderate, with permanere of uncertainty factors between which decrease of the price of the diesel engine that favors the transport on the road goods and with the persistent strengthening of the Swiss franc regarding the euro, factor that goods plays to sfavore of the Swiss operators in the traffic on track.

Hupac has found that to arouse worry it is also the insufficient operating quality in the railway net, than in the year in course has touched the minimal level because of various factors. "If the railway system does not invert the tendency - the director of the Swiss company has perceived, Bernhard Kunz - comes unhooked to us from the market. Although Hupac succeeds, at least partially, to compensate the delays with organizational measures - it has added - the timeliness goal of the logistics of 95% demands structural measures which the parity of treatment of the transport goods regarding the transport fleeting and the introduction of a regime of reimbursements in a position to exercising a tangible effect of boosting. If the trains travel punctual, it increases the productivity of the resources employed as railway staff, locomotives, wagons and terminal. Punctual trains - it has concluded Kunz - are the base for satisfied customers. And they save money with consequent benefits for the entire railway system".